Mike, Julian and James chat through issues and highlights from the week's news as well as the usual Pro Tools tips, tricks and community questions answered.

Podcast Sponsor - Exponential Audio

This month’s sponsor is Exponential Audio, Michael Carnes has been busy working on the next generation of immersive audio reverbs and Exponential Audio have just announced their new Stratus and Symphony reverbs, which develop the 3D link technology already existing in the Phoenixverb and R2 plug-ins. These stunning new reverbs offer up to 22.2 (with the 3D option) and even up to 7.1 in the standard versions. These reverbs have been designed with post-production in mind and offer unprecedented dynamic control and reverb manipulation, to ensure that dialogues and effects retain clarity within the 3D audio soundscape.

You can watch Michael explain the challenges facing re-recording mixers working in immersive audio.

Deals

• Save 30% On Exclusive Sknote Plug-in Bundle Of AAX DSP Plug-ins - £68.
  This month we are offering a saving of 30% on an exclusive bundle of 3 Sknote plug-ins that are available in the AAX DSP plug-in format - Disto-S - An emulation of the infamous Distressor from Empirical Labs, DolA - A plug-in version of the old tracking brightening trick using the encoder side of a Dolby A noise reduction system and EchoTaps which covers the history of delay units in one plug-in. We are selling this exclusive bundle of 3 AAX DSP plug-ins for £68.00 plus taxes which is a saving of 30% over the current pricing of the 3 plug-ins, but that includes the AES launch price of $49 for the Disto-S, but the normal price will be $299.
• Save 30% on zplane reTune Real-Time Multi-Pitch Modification Plug-in - Sale Price £84
  During the month of November, Pro Tools Expert is offering 30% off on the zplane reTune Real-Time Multi-Pitch Modification Plug-in, making it an absolute bargain at £84 (excl vat). reTune is a cross-platform plug-in for real-time multi-pitch modifications, which gives you full access to the pitch content of your audio samples and enables you to map each input pitch to any other pitch of the chromatic scale – all in real-time. This allows you to re-tune your audio to any target key (for example, from D major to C# minor), or to use it as a creative tool to modify the pitch content in any way you like. If you are unsure about the key of your input audio, you can let reTune estimate the key for you. In addition, reTune can act as a pitch correction tool that quantizes pitches to the nearest semitone. Check out Eli Krantzberg’s exclusive review on the deal page.
• Also don’t forget to check out the deals from our Partners, in the Partner Deals section on our Deals page.

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio

Are you in need of more power? If you buy and register any new Universal Audio Apollo rackmount interface, that’s the Apollo 8, Apollo 8p, Apollo 16, or Apollo FireWire, until December 31st, 2017, and you’ll get a UAD-2 Satellite OCTO or QUAD DSP Accelerator in either PCI or stand-alone format —  to the value of  £1,081 absolutely free! You can find out more at the UAD website.

• 4 Ways To Prevent A Click Track Bleeding Into A Microphone In Pro Tools

• Five Golden Rules For Building A Healthy Creative Business

Competitions

• Win A One Year PureMix Pro Membership
  Our friends at PureMix have offered the Pro Tools Expert community a one year Pro Membership, usually costing $299 in this giveaway. Pro Membership gives full access to the hundreds of hours of top quality tutorial content from big name engineers including Andrew Scheps and Mick Guzauski.
• Win Wavesfactory Mercury Piano
  Three Chances To Win, Wavesfactory, creators of plug-ins and Kontakt libraries, have kindly donated one copy of the Mercury piano and two copies of Mercury Lite piano. Mercury piano is a grand piano instrument for Kontakt Player featuring a Fazioli F-228 recorded at Metropolis Studios in London.
• Don’t forget to check out our win page, to discover more opportunities to win pro audio software and gear from our Partners, in the Partner Win section, on our Win page.

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

RSPE Audio has the new PMC result6 studio monitors in stock. result6 is PMC’s new entry-level monitor that takes everything PMC monitoring is famous for and makes it affordable! Check out the result6 page on the RSPE website.

• James Mirza Tahirovic Wanted to let us know how much he appreciates the blog - thanks!

Community Questions

• Pierre-Hugues Rondeau has a question about nudging automation on aux tracks

• Mark DeWaters wants advice on his next Windows machine for Pro Tools

• Filippo Lattanzi asks our opinion of the Mic Preamps in the MTRX compared to the HAPI. 

Source Connect Now

As you may know, we are spread out around the UK & Europe when we record the podcast. In the past, we have used a variety of internet-based solutions so we could hear each other.  We have settled on Source Connect Now which gives us ISDN equivalent quality audio using a Chrome browser, no software to install. You can get a free account from Source Elements.

Find Of The Week

• Mike - Sound Radix POWair, it's an incredible leveler and compressor working together.
• James - Universal Audio 9.4 Software Update - The Ocean Way  Mic Collection….. ON YES! Guess what I’m talking on tonight?
• Julian - 1 TB of Dropbox - Bit dull, but I finally got fibre - yay!

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