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

Groove 3 Videos That Grabbed Our Attention This Week

• Groove3 are offering the opportunity on their tutorial downloads to buy one and get one of equal or lesser value free for a limited period. So choose two tutorials series from Groove3 and you will get the cheaper one free. 

• The Art Of Recording A Big Band from Al Schmitt is now available for streaming and download from Groove3 for $24.99 to download or available for streaming with the Groove3 All Access Pass.

Competitions

• Win One Of Five Copies Of MixChecker From Audified
• Check out the Partner section of the Win page

Deals

• Boz Digital Labs - Save 40% On Three Separate Plug-ins - Manic Compressor £67, Imperial Delay £67 & T-Bone £21
• AIR Music Synth Bundle £60 - 60% off
• Check out the Partner section on the Deals page  

Talking Points Kindly Sponsored By Universal Audio

Universal Audio are offering up to 50% discount on Tape emulation plugins in their Magnetic Tape Month until August 31st 2016. 

James Ivey with the support of Universal Audio and Shure microphones will be presenting a Drum Mic & Recording Workshop at UK drum store SOUND ATTAK, Colchester, Essex on Tuesday the 30th of August from 7pm.  If you are in that part of the world and want to learn more about drums and drum recording check out the link.

• Pitch Correction Shoot Out - The Results
• How To Be Kind To Yourself And Stay Healthy As A Creative Professional 

Community Feedback Kindly Sponsored by RSPE Audio Solutions

32’50” It's your last chance to sign up for a free event at RSPE in LA at which they will be presenting all the Avid control surfaces from a Composer perspective on August 11th 2016 from 7pm to 9pm. There will be a range of guest speakers sharing their experiences of using the Artist Mix to the Pro Tools S3 and Pro Tools Dock, to the flagship Pro Tools S6 which will be demonstrated Mick Guzauski. 

• Lorenzo Arese has had some problems with Beat Detective missing markers here and there and also couldn’t add new beat detective markers.
• Edward Lewis has let us know that the new way of chapterising the podcast so that everything now works fine with Android devices.
• Bart de Wit was wondering when part 3 of James’ Focusrite RED 4 Pre will be coming out.

Questions From The Community Sponsored By Create Pro

Believe it or not it’s not just James and Mike who have been helped by the team at Create Pro.  They have hundreds of very happy clients (not all as famous and James and Mike) and they also want to share their stories. Check out the Create Pro Client page to find who else has had their Mac Pro pimped to the macs.  http://create.pro/clients

• Paul Beckwith is having problems with El Capitan with buffer errors 9063 and the CPU maxing out on his 2009 Mac Pro with 64 Meg of RAM and GUI issues and asks if Yosemite would be a better option.
• Bill Burchett would like to know how to record the Scuffham S-Gear 2 processed in Pro Tools 11.
• Tory Rao asks if he should use Pro Tools shortcuts with Studio One or should be learn the Studio One shortcuts.

Get To Know The Team

In this feature, each week each of us will share something about us that you are unlikely to know about so you can get to know as as people.

Team Find Of The Week Sponsored by Output

We all love free stuff right? With that in mind check out the Movement pages of the Output web site. Following the links below and you can download some amazing free samples made with REV. There are samples in Apple Loops, Wav, REX2 and Kontakt formats. 

• Russ - Ni Native Access
• Mike - Sreejesh Nair’s blog Film Mixing and Design  
• Dan - Behringer x32

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