Mike, James and Peter chat through issues from the week's news as well as the usual tips, tricks and questions answered.

Podcast Sponsor - Exponential Audio

Thanks to Exponential Audio for sponsoring the podcast this month. This week we wanted to give you a heads up on the Exponential Audio Summer Sale. Until June 23 Exponential Audio is running a Summer Sale in which you can get most of the Exponential plug-ins and upgrades with 30% off. Existing subscribers to their newsletter should already have their discount code that will work on their site until June 23rd. If you would like to take advantage of this offer then the discount codes you need are if you are purchasing in dollars, use TimeForFunDollars. For Euros, then your code is TimeForFunEuros. 

Deals

• SoundBits Offer 45% Off Their Sound Effects Libraries  This month we are giving you the opportunity to get 45% off any individual SoundBits Sound Effects Libraries. All you need to do is go across to the SoundBits Shop, choose the sound effects libraries you would like and put the code into the SoundBits Shop and you will get 45% off whatever is in your basket. It's as simple as that.   
• TrainYourEars EQ Training Software - 20% Off Get For £34 This month we have partnered with our friends at TrainYourEars to offer you the chance to save 20% off the purchase price of TrainYourEars EQ Edition 2 frequency training software - For Mac & Windows. This month you can buy for £34 ex VAT.  
• 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

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Competitions

Win 1 of 8 Copies Of Seventh Heaven Reverb Plug-ins From LiquidSonics The Seventh Heaven reverb is available as two separate plug-ins, one slightly more feature rich than the other and LiquidSonics have kindly offered the Pro Tools Expert Community 8 prizes from these two Seventh Heaven plug-ins for the competition.

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

If you are looking to give your studio the power to Create, Edit, Mix, Master and Deliver Dolby Atmos content, then check our friends at RSPE Audio Solutions as for over 15 years, they have been a proud Dolby Professional dealer and installer and they are one or a handful of dealers you can supply the Dolby Atmos Mastering Suite.  

• Vivian Thompson got in touch to see if we had heard or tried the Soundbrenner PulseIts a wearable metronome that can be synced to a DAW and 5 other devices.  

This Week’s Featured Pro Tools Expert Interview

This week’s featured interview is James’ interview with engineer and producer Greg Wurth. James caught up with Greg at his LA studio to talk about his work both past and present, his gear choices and his move into creating the Greg Wurth Audio brand.

Questions From The Community

• Larry Alexander is mixing a show for PBS and was asked to deliver my work using the "SMPTE" track order being L-R-C-LFE-Ls-Rs. It seems that Pro Tools busses always use the "Film" track order which is L-C-R-Ls-Rs-LFE. He is recording onto a 5.1 audio track and wants to know how to get these tracks into the "SMPTE" track order to deliver to PBS.
• Michael Lindner has been a Pro Tools user since the days of Audiomedia 2 cards in a Quadra 650. At present he has a Power Mac G5 2.7 dual water cooled PPC Mac OSX 10.4.9, running Pro Tools 7.3.1; Digidesign 002r Black Lioned; Waves Platinum plug-ins, Spectrasonics, Reason 4, Amplitube, Sampletank, UAD pci card plus a few others. For him, this is an ultimate system. However, he fears that one day it will all come crashing down even though he has an off-site hard drive backup and even another Mac in mothballs. So he asks if we have any suggestions to keep his system going or preparing for the big change? 

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 - In the comments on Dan’s excellent setting up a business article, someone asked about recommendations for tools to help your business and Although it is not exactly something I found this week it is something that I know is saving me a lot of money and that is TransferWise.  If you do any international payments you will know the charges and crap exchange rates you get from your bank. TransferWise gets around those charges. 
• James - A very cool trick for placing the screws in the perfect spot for hooking power blocks into racks or on walls. Check out the video from 5 Minute Crafts. 
• Peter - Aputure A Lav Microphone - only $35 - wired omnidirectional lavalier microphone with excellent bang for a buck and best sounding and best build quality in that price range that I have tried. Has a little built in battery that you charge via USB - quoted battery life is over 200 hours on 1 charge! I'm sure I will use it on some piece to camera videos soon so you can hear it.

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