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Production Expert

The best music and post production tips, tricks and news on the web, brought to you by the Production Expert team. We support users of Pro Tools, Logic Pro and Studio One and those who work in music and post production.

Production Expert Podcast

In this podcast short, Ashea narrates an article by Russ Hughes about the dangers of saying yes to everything. 

Read Along With The Article:

https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/drowning-in-ideas-how-audio-pros-can-learn-to-say-no

Podcast Short: Drowning In Ideas

In this edition, Julian & Ashea are joined by Will Shanks and James Santiago of Universal Audio, where they discuss UA’s impact on bringing hardware magic to the digital age.

About Our Guests:

Will Shanks: Senior Product Designer / Professional Plugins

James Santiago: Senior Product Designer / Guitar Products

Talking Points:

 • The Secret History of the A-Type Processor
 • A-Type processor, and how UA pushed it even further with modern circuit mods and expanded creative features.
 • A-Type as historic preservation tool of a particular era of recorded music
 • Analogue Vs Digital Vs Analogue Emulation with additional features.
 • UA’s impact on bringing hardware magic to the digital age 

About A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer 

For modern music producers, the name “A-Type” conjures images of analog recording studios and ancient equipment used for workhorse tasks like noise reduction and tape transfers to digital. But such associations don’t tell the whole story. The legacy of the Dolby A-Type noise reduction system* isn’t just about preservation — it is also a story of transformation. What began as a groundbreaking noise reduction circuit in the golden age of magnetic tape quietly shaped the sound of some of the most iconic records of all time as a creative effect. Now, reimagined as a modern tool for music producers and engineers working in DAWs, the UAD A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer plug-in brings this forgotten “studio secret” back into the spotlight. 

A-Type Blog - https://www.uaudio.com/blogs/ua/making-of-uad-a-type 

Finds of the week:

Each week our guests share something they have found, (usually audio related but it doesn´t have to be; it can be anything from audio software to movies or even a jar of pickle):

 Julian: Surrounded by Sound: Ray Dolby and the Art of Noise Reduction

Ashea: https://wiredmasters.co.uk/ (Tape Baking Story)

Will: Amazon Pants 

James:Installation of tone makers in Times Square Max Neuhas -

Preserving Musical History with UAD A-Type

In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Christian Luther of Playfair Audio, where they discuss tips, tricks and gear to assist mix engineers and producers with their creativity.

About Our Guest: Christian Luther:
Christian is the founder of Playfair Audio and a seasoned audio software developer from Hannover, Germany. With a background in electrical engineering and years of experience at companies like Kemper Amps and Sennheiser, he’s spent his career building tools that make audio production more intuitive. Through Playfair Audio, he focuses on solving the technical challenges so others can focus on being creative.

Talking Points:

 • The interplay between creativity and technical ability 
 • Using technology for a more seamless creative mixing process 
 • Careful consideration vs instinct while mixing
 • How tools, interfaces and working environments shape the creative process
 • The role of dynamics when mixing 

Finds of the week:

Each week our guests share something they have found, (usually audio related but it doesn´t have to be, it can be anything from audio software to movies or even a jar of pickle):

Ashea: Logic Pro Latest Updates- Stem Splitter Improvements
Christian: https://www.keybr.com/

The Art Of Mixing

In this edition Ashea chats to Alex West (music manager, radio presenter for BBC, KM FM and Reprezents Radio in London) about the pros and cons of being Neurodivergent (ADHD and Autistic) while working in the music industry.

Podcast Interview: Neurodivergence In The Audio Industry

In this episode Ashea and Julian are joined by Auribus CEO Juan Elias and CFO Neal Gustafson where they discuss how AI software is changing the industry, possibly like we've never encountered before. Is it time to embrace change in an ethical way?

Talking Points:

 • The AI revolution in the audio industry and why choosing ethical options is so important.
 • A literal game-changer, despite this phrase being embarrassingly over used- let’s discuss the ways that Auribus is changing how we make music.
 • Voice by Auribus Features:

Finds of the week:
Julian: Air Fryer! - me too… Snootiful Hound sighthound harness
Ashea: Monument Valley Game
Juan: Anthony Hopkins film Hitchcock - title: “Hitchcock”
Neal: Air Fryer, Factotum Movie,

The Future Of Music Is Here: Will You Embrace It?

In this podcast short we bring you an informal yet very informative casual chat between Nathaniel Reichman and Mark Donahue of sound mirror on the mysteries of Direct Stream Digital.

Podcast Short: Direct Stream Digital- Unpacking The Mystery

In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Thomas Lund from Genelec and Stephen Wheatley from HearAngel where they discuss the importance of safe listening levels and how to protect our most valuable asset that we have as audio and music professionals... Our Ears.

About our guests:

Thomas is convenor of the EU working group to prevent hearing loss in music listening and gaming; and researcher at Finnish monitoring company, Genelec. Out of a medical background, Thomas has worked in Danish healthcare, and contributed to international standardisation on sound.

Stephen: Stephen’s company, LimitEar, have supplied hearing safeguarding technologies for headphone users at The BBC, Global Radio, BSkyB, F1, amongst others. He is the Chair of the UK Make Listening Safe Campaign, a WHO initiative, a Trustee of the UK Hearing Conservation Association and an Invited Expert to the ITU’s Safe Listening safety standards groups. 

 https://www.hearangel.com/the-company/

Stephen: History Rage Podcast

Finds of the week:
Julian: Steinberg SpectraLayers

Ashea: Ear Peace Music Pro

Thomas: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/about/app.html

https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/degenerate-art-modern-art-trial-under-nazis

Stephen: History Rage Podcast

Listen To This Podcast- Your Ears Will Thank You For It (With Genelec)

In this podcast episode, Ashea has a candid chat with Artist, Producer, Singer/Rapper, youth mentor and Big Brother UK 2024 runner up Marcello Spooks, about tough beginnings inspiring creativity, being under immense public scrutiny and whether, being 'delulu' the 'solulu' to making your best work. 

Listen To Marcellos New Music Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7BLmHCX9A

Keep Up With Marcello's Delusion:
https://www.instagram.com/marcellospooks?igsh=MTducHRocGY2Z2QwcQ==

Interview with Marcello Spooks: Is Delusion The Key To Success?

In this edition Ashea and Julian are joined by Source Elements technical co-founder and CEO Rebekah Wilson and principal inventor and co-founder, Robert Marshall, where they deep dive into the beginnings, the middle and the future of Source Elements, and why it's at the forefront of seamless, stress free remote recording.

About Our Guests:

Robert Marshall: Principal inventor and co-founder, overseas product development concepts and sales & support teams. He is the recording /mixing engineer for SUM1 in Chicago and works daily with our remote tools around the world in that capacity. He also has an extraordinary daughter who just started film school who is showing that the next generation is full of talent and good spirits.

Rebekah Wilson: Technical co-founder and CEO, overseas engineering and product teams and general business functions. Originally trained as classical & electronic composer in conservatory-style, before source elements she toured as a composer/performer and worked in an experimental music institute in Amsterdam, work that merged into her interest of using tools such as Source-Connect for networked music performance and avant garde music, primarily as teacher and researcher.

The New Era Of Remote Recording

In this edition, Julian and Ashea are joined by Grammy winning producer/engineer and extremely tired touring musician William Wittman and engineer/producer & indie label owner Steve DeMott, where they discuss the latest things they love and perhaps don't love so much in audio right now.

Things We Love Right Now (And Things We Don't)

In this week's Podcast Julian is joined by Ashea and Ian Shepherd for a discussion about about mastering in the streaming age.

Ian Shepherd is a mastering engineer of 25 years experience who has become well known for his work around the detrimental effects of the loudness wars. He runs the Production Advice blog and hosts The Mastering Show podcast.

Talking Points

 • Mastering for Streaming Platforms, let’s talk specifics
 • Loundness Normalisation and Album Normalisation
 • Loudness Wars, are they still a thing? Do we still need loud masters?
 • True Peak Limiters vs normal limiters
 • Clipping
 • Widening mixes

Finds Of The Week

Julian - Genelec GRADE ReportsAshea - Pope AudioIan - AM coustics, Who Killed the KLF

Mastering For Streaming

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