James, Dan and Julian are discussing compression and reverb this week. They talk about parallel compression and ask whether it gets over-used. They talk reverb - what are their go-to reverbs and are there any they overlook? They answer your questions, share community feedback, and their finds of the week.

Deals

• Our friends at Audiodeluxe have an exclusive deal offering 30% off reTune from zplane. Retune takes an interesting approach to tuning in that as well as being a plug-in capable of typical pitch correction and pitch quantise duties, it offers a retuning matrix, allowing pitch based experiments through mapping incoming pitches to different pitches on the output side.

• Don’t forget to check out the rest of the deals from our Partners on our Deals page.

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio

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Talking Points

• Parallel Compression - How often is it used as a cop-out for people using their compressors way too hard?

• Reverb - What's cool? What do we like? Anything which doesn't get the attention it deserves? 

Competitions

• To help celebrate their shiny new website and the release of six new music production and post-production bundles, our friends at NUGEN Audio is offering you the chance win either a NUGEN Producer Bundle worth $499 or a NUGEN Post Bundle worth $899. Choose which prize you would like to win and enter the competition.

• Don’t forget to check out 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 is proud to announce the new ASC Nano AttackWall. It’s a mini version of the ASC AttackWall that takes all of the acoustic benefits of its bigger brother and shrinks them down to fit on your desktop. Get a reliable, repeatable, and accurate sonic space that’s extremely portable, so you can take it with you when you move or work in another studio. Learn more at RSPE website.

• Bastiaan de Waard - Asks whether we do any merchandise?

Questions From The Community

• Garrett Miller - has a question about workflow when using Slate ML-2s and VMR

• Toby Frisk - wants our advice on slaving a second computer to Pro Tools for exta processing power.

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 - Sponsored By UJAM

UJAM Instruments’ innovative Virtual Drummer and Virtual Guitarist music production plug-ins are now available as AAX plug-ins for Pro Tools so Pro Tools users can now enjoy the simplicity and versatility of these excellent instruments. Get what you need from your drummer or guitarist in the minimum of time.  

• Julian - Roland Cloud Instruments

• James - Audio Technica ATH-M60x Headphones

• Dan - His Rosewood Telecaster

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