In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Luke Steven Ramsay and Luke Goddard, where they break down songs from the 80s until now and ask, what makes a hit?

Talking Points:

• Pick 2-3 tracks you love from the 80s-today.
• We compare why. Production, musicality, expression, cultural influences, demographic.

Ashea´s Tracks:
Back Bone- Chase & Status & Stormzy

Charlie XCX Sympathy Is A Knife

Luke R´s Tracks :

The 1975 - Oh Caroline

Sam Fender - Spit of You

Luke G’s tracks:

Tears For Fears -Seeds of Love

Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue

Royals - Lorde

Julian’s Tracks

Madonna Vogue

Sabotage Beastie Boys

Get Lucky - Daft Punk

In this podcast short Russ Hughes says; "You are going to come up against all sorts of problems when recording and mixing. Occam’s Razor is an indispensable tool we ignore at our peril."

In this edition Julian and Ashea are joined by Luke Goddard and Paul Maunder, where they discuss tried and tested production rules and ask, does anyone care about that anymore and if so, why?

Talking Points:

• Being in the room with the artist/client, is it still necessary? Does it even matter?
• Have listeners' ears become accustomed to things like Auto tune, heavy compression, would anyone care if we stopped doing these things?
• Loudness Wars- does anyone care anymore?
• Mix Assistants E.g EZ mix, is it cheating?

Finds of the week:

Julian:Using what you already have in the studio (Carbon story, Caldigit Ethernet, audio key on piano)
Ashea: Audio Ease- Speakerphone 3
Paul: BlackMagic UltraStudio Recorder
Luke: Leaf Audio