The PASportVO is Here! Shipping Updates & Behind-the-Scenes Stories

Any history. Welcome, Hi the Pro Audio Suite. Thanks you guys, a professional and motivator. Thanks to try Booth, the best vocal booth for home or on the road voice recording and Austrian audio Making Passion Hurd Introducing Robert Marshall. From Source Elements and Someone. Audio Post Chicago, Aaron Robert Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging Sydney to the video Stars, George the Tech Whittam from LA and Me, Andrew Peters Voice Ober Talents and Home Studio Guy out and welcome to another pro Audio Suite thanks to try Booth. Don't forget the code tri PAP two one hundred to get two hundred dollars off your try Booth and Austrian Audio Making Passion heard. We also have another product that's being delivered as we speak, which is the Passport Vio, the collaboration between the Pro Audio Suite and Centrance. What's the up like, George. Well, yeah, we we saw pictures there. They're not fake. They look real to me. We have pictures of a large number of Passport videos laid out on a table in Chicago, and so then they're the boxes. Yes, they've all been shipped in large and you know, quantity from China back to Chicago where they're being tested and calibrated to make sure they all work as designed and then impacked up in their cute little cardboard boxes and then shipped out. So I don't know who is getting the first batch, but I believe they are shipping in the order that they were purchased, so you know who you are, cool one of the first So that's. Really great to see it, like last week, then that lost last year, then you. Had an inside line. Is that you're saying yes, yes, yeah, so that that's happening, and so we've he Michael sent out an email and he's very verified everybody's shipping addresses, making sure everybody. Has the address they want and especially happening moment. That's right. I mean some people just need different addresses, so it was nice of him to do and make sure they go to where they need to go. So it's just really exciting. We've got great support around it. We've got the quick start Guide. We'll have PDF versions of a quick start guide showing all the different possible. Layouts and how to post your cell phone number for everybody, and. George George, it's. Not hard to find. It's definitely not hard to find. And uh yeah, and plus there will be a quick Start Guide video series that we produced a little bit of go and we're going to have finished up soon, which will be a nice you know, a nice thing to accompany the paper or the well actually the digital screenshot version, because uh, you know, the box it comes with is very really small, so we're not going to have a multi page card guide inside there. There's going to be a q r K. I actually like you too, Yeah, I like that that guide where it's just like, here's a few use cases. That's the one we were working on right when we were. Yes, yeah, the one that George forgot we'd done. Right well, it was a couple of years ago. Yeah. Yeah. It's so funny because Robbo said, Robbo said, hey, do we have that video for the quick Start Guide? And I said, you mean this one? And it was the one that we all shot together when we first when I first got the unit right, and I thought, isn't that the Quick Start Guide? And Robo was like, no, we shot a whole nother video that's based on the Quick Start Guide and it was like we did. He's like, we did, yes, and it's not. It would be this would be about around the time when I started to self diagnose myself with ADHD, and that I'm not kidding about. I I have not been tested yet because getting any kind of mental health testing in my areas like basically impossible right now. But I have all the symptoms of someone with a totally have. No symptoms at all, exactly. If you want to put some labels on it, George, given the process we've been through getting this passport v v O out the door, it could I could might actually be you know PT, what is it? Post traumatic TSD. Yeah, you gets. More than the other have. All the letters, have all the letters. Product PT, post PT, post product production stress disorder. Something all the peas anyway, something like that product production disorder. But yeah, yeah, memory is not my strong suit. Let's put it that way. So I can't tell you how many times I've had somebody say, yeah, man, I was there, or you told me. That could also be just you could also I put it down to just getting old. I mean, how many times I walk into the room and guy, fuck, what did that come from? It's like, yes, well, yeah, that's true. But I mean that's been happening to me for twenty five plus years, these problems. So it's like it's like Alzheimer's. You meet new people every day, and often it is nice people. I introduce itself to somebody for three years ye. Right, yeah, exactly. But we'll have those. Once we have those, the proper quick start guide videos done, we'll have those up on a website which will be accessible through a QR code in the manual, so you'll be able to jump right in there. And because everybody learns differently, some people want to have pictures, some people will enjoy the video, and there'll be some great support around it. I've already gotten one email asking me, Hey, how long have a USB cable can I use with it? Or what kind of cable? And I've done some testing around and optical cable. Yes, So I don't know the maximum length of an optical cable that you can use, but the one that I have is about fifteen feet or so. It doesn't sound that good, but in pretty much any home studio situation, that's probably good enough. Yeah, and it works without problem. I'd like to see what it does to the used market on the Apollos. Yeah, it's actually curious to see what happens with what happens with them, you know, I don't see how our product is going to really make a dent in the Apollo market because their. Market is massive, massive, I mean, but in the Apollo corner, in the in the Vo corner of the Apollo market, there are so many voice talent. I mean, some of them are technically on it and they can manage an Apollo. But Georgie and I both know that, like it's like, you know that that can be quite an interface to handle, and I think a lot of people would appreciate just downscaling the tech to something that's what they need and doesn't have all that other music stuff. Yeah, they don't. I mean a lot of people have an Apollo and they really do not use the features that it was that they don't use the key feature, which is the USP And the thing is, yes, it's some people want to use it because it can do it. So they feel really coerced into well, I have this thing, what you know, I need the Avalon seven thirty seven plug And I'm like, no, you don't. But they end up buying it anyway because they see a deal, you know, and sort of like, well, now I have to use that. But I tell people, like, unless you're addicted to headphones and you want to hear yourself through an LA two A, every time you record something, you don't need all that real time processing. You just don't you can get. So the fact that this thing gives you all the routing and the easy mic switching and the muting and the control over monitoring and multiple audio interface do abilities, it replaces ninety percent of what an actor would want with an Apollo. I mean probably one hundred percent for a huge percentage of the users, right, So. Yeah, I think you'll definitely right about that. Yeah, so I'm saying I think I think i'mlike, you know, like the Vo Dash BB or whatever, people can be like, hey got my Apollo for sale because this thing travels easier, it's simpler. But the portability of it is key for me. That's what I really like about it. Portability. Sound quality is really excellent sound quality. Like I'm not an audio file I don't. I wouldn't claim I have golden ears, but when I plugged it in and just tested the very first time, I just couldn't help but notice how clean it sounds like the lack of noise, the lack of any anything remotely related to distortion, the the incredibly smooth compressor, and how transparent the compressor is so transparent. The Comparsson compressor is incredibly transparent, but it really does keep it from clipping. It's like does exactly what you want to do and nothing of what you don't want it to do. And it's it's there, but it's not there. No one's going to know you have it on until you're at the edge of the performance, like where you're really pushing it right, And that's like in the quick Start guide, you know, we're going to show like for voice actors, we recommend turning it off, but I think a lot of you will just find it. You just like having it on because it's just nobody's going to know you're using it. It's a safety net. They're just not It's a safe. It's a very good insurance program. Yeah, exactly, it really is. Yeah, And I've had a few people buy too. I know Andrew you're one of them, but I think you did it for other reasons, just to be, you know, a big backer of our product. But I've had a few people buy two because they're like, I have two studios and I just want to have the same thing at both places. I don't want to have to transport it. I just wanted to be there. And you know that's that says a lot too. So I think you bought too because Somerset said me too, didn't. She wish he did. But you know what she's going to take off. She's going to nick the mic wooll pro and guarantee that. That's another story, right. But I what I'll do is I. Will set one up in here instead of having the SSL two, which I use for the laptop and stuff and monitoring whatever. I'll set up the possible. Video in here, and then I'll have one in the bag when. I travel there. You go, good idea. The good thing about having in front of me all the time is that i'll you know, you get to use the mic port. Proce summer second, use the AI one or what's her what's her interface? Now that micpol pro you will use. I love that the passport does not have a battery. The thing that bugs me about the mic port pro, at least the newer models, the ones that have a battery, is invariably pull out of the bag. You need to record something right now. Batteries dead and the unit does not function on a dead battery. Even when it's plugged into charge. You have to charge the unit for ten to fifteen minutes before the unit comes to life. And that's a drag, like really stinks. You're like, I need to record right now. Like the reason a lot of people have a mic port pros that lives in their bag, goes to the hotel, it's like they pull everything out real quickly and plug it in and they're like dead, nothing, it doesn't work and the panic, you know. So now we're testing the USB cables because I bought it. My Christmas present to myself was a new US be Hub. I spent like one hundred and seventy bucks on it, right because I wanted a decent one. It's one serious USB hub. It turns out how many courses. I think it's pretty big, but it's it's it's a It turns up and the USB cable didn't work. I was sitting here swearing to myself, saying, oh, they've sent me a dud unit. And then I swapped out the USB cable and the way it went, and so yeah, so we'll be testing our USB cables, is my point. Right. Yeah, we did ask Michael to please make sure each cable goes in the box has been tested. Again, it behooves him to do that because if he doesn't think about all the extra customer service, annoying calls and emails, he's going to have to feel feel or field if just one of the cables is bad. Right, so we'll feel two. So we're hoping that that's not the case. Things happen. Cables are very cheap and produced in mass mask quantities, so there's a chance that could happen. But we're going to try to minimize that chance. Yeah, I mean you can't, Yeah, you kind of get. But the good thing that just remember these are standard BOG standard USBC cables. These are totally off the shelf. You probably have two to ten cables clothing feel ones though. They're nice cables. They're not just plastic, cheapy, crappy looking shit. They're nice, right yep, those cloth wrapped ones, which is return nice. They don't tangle up as much, absolutely. And they sound better because the electrons in them going one specific direction only. Right. Oh, no, here we go. I mentioned audio file. Here you go. One monodirectional speaker wire? Is that a thig? I saw a high five set up once and the speaker cables were on stands. What I've literally seen speaker cables that have directions to them, like like this is the way the electrons are supposed to flow. It's like, yeah, what I mean stands? I mean the speaker cables look like little train tracks and a model train set. They were like on little a little stands like a bridge, you know, like they were on a little bridge. It was like, what that's nuts? Well? Am I seeing? I heard a few keeps the cable very very cold. The electrons will move faster through it if the cable is ice cold, right? Was that superductor kind of stuff? I don't know, you know, you know. The other thing about about some of those cables is if you buy the right one, seventies and eighties music sounds heaps better than the crap that's sort of floating around now too. You know, they know it sounds much better. The true fact or is that just the production? Hang on? Is that just me? Sorry? Hang on anyway? Yeah, on a totally different note, because we do the I did find a really interesting YouTube video where the engine where an engineer did compare as as best that he could compare the quality of sound that you get on Vinyl cassette reel to real Apple lossless and Spotify, and it was really interesting. Oh, can we can we guess which one was he felt was better? Vinyl would have to BA surely. Well. I mean, he wasn't really trying to make a judgment of better. He was just trying to make a judgment of different and really expose how they're different. But what he didn't mention, which I think is important to mention, is that every Vinyl record, when you play it back, you're not hearing what's exactly on the record. You're hearing an eqed version of what's in the record because of what's called the r I A a curve. Right, So what's in the groove is a is a EQ tilted version with the base down and the treble way way up, and. That that needle around the record more times without beast that's where all the energy is. And then so the version you're hearing is with an EQ that tilts the trouble down and the bass up. So if that EQ isn't quite maybe dead on where it needs to be, you get more beast. And that's also that's why vinyl records are so warm sounding and warm, and. That's the way I like to describe. It's an interesting story about exactly what you're talking about, George, that when Quincy Jones produced Thriller for Michael Jackson, they sent it off and got a test pressing, brought it back to the studio, played it and it sounded like shit and the problem they had. The major issue with Thriller was it was too long, so they had to then do an edit, so a lot of those songs got chopped to reduce the length of the they can maximize instead of the grooves being too small. Do a double album or something that would have made more sense. Yeah, they could have done an album, I guess because it was a pop album, they knew it was gonna hurt. So here's the flip side of the r I A A curve. Everyone listening on cassette and your Lovely Dolby Cassette, Dolby. A B and coded WB. But everyone knew that if you listen to it without the Dolby and coding turned or decoding turned on, then you'd get all that high. End and. So actually coded Dolby and coded but not decoded, which totally again in a sort of opposite way to the r I A a curve. It emphasizes the high end. And yeah, well I just got a little bite of the bug of vinyl again over the holidays, you know, And I've ended up with a couple of vinyl record players from friends of mine. They're like, I got one laying around, I got one laying around. So I've been playing around with them more and and just making me think about it. But it's fun pulling out the wall on vinyl that I've had since I was like since I was ten, you know, and and going, oh, this record is not absolutely mangled. You know. It has a few dings in it, you know, but at the record's still in fair condition, and listening to it back on headphones. It's a pretty pretty cool experience, I got it. It's interesting. It's interesting with vinyl that when you think, oh, it's got to scratch, it's like clicking and popping and whatever. It probably isn't scratched. It's just got dirt in the grooves. So if you give it a pizza, Vinyl a super deep clean like using all the proper professional stuff, you can bring an old record that you thought was scratched the buggery. Hydro by that far please cave. It's on that the comments of Robert, the comments of Robert Marshall do not necessarily represent the views of the Proad Sweet podcast. It's clear Vinyl. Man. Yes, I went down the rat hole. If you guys ever want to go to the ratough rat hole of vintage ADS electronics, watch a YouTube channel called tech Moan tech Moan, and this guy gets into every obscurity you can possibly imagine, from smallest walk man ever made, to you know, laser disc to video disc, to record players that played both sides of the record, and all kinds of crazy stuff. It's a lot of fun. That is. I didn't even know they had that the auto reverse record. Did not know that one, Yeah, auto reverse. It has two tone arms, linear tracking, one underneath, one on top. She could have done quad that way, they could have played both sides of the record simultaneously. Right, we'll see. The moon came out and I was selling high fi a right and a TV record shop and we were selling quadraphonic stereos and there was so very few records, most of them with sound effects, records of someone in a bloody you know, on a fucking fairground or something. But of course Dark Side of the Moon came out, and that was quadraphonic. Was tubular bells that was quadraphonic too, wasn't it. I'm not sure, But when I saw Pink Floyd a couple of times. I saw them back in the eighties, and the gig was quadraphonic. And if you were standing in the middle of the arena, or if one of them was outdoors and you had indulged in Robert's favorite pastime, listening to a gig in quadraphonic is a real mind fuck. It's bizarre. Well, i'll tell you how else it's a mind fuck. I saw Dave Gilmour, I won't say Pink Floyd at Soldier Field and we were like, this was in college. So we're in like the nosebly Sea. It's like way up and over in the corner, and they start playing money boom boom boom boom boom bom, right, and that thing, if you've ever heard it in quad goes from one speaker to the other. Yeahs around the road. But if you're sitting in the wrong place in a giant, gigantic stadium. What you hear is bomb chick go bom bomb Pink bomb chick go boom totally at a time. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, that's funny. I was lucky enough to see Pink Floyd here in Sydney in the late eighties. That was pretty fucking incredible. That were good. It was probably actually earlier, it was probably eighty seven, eighty six, eighty seven. Was it, I don't remember. I kind of remember the name of the tour. Was it Delicate? Was it the Delicate sound of Thunder? It that would have been before Delicate? Yeah, that was like post Roger Waters. Yeah, yeah, it was post Roger and it had the big pink pig that came from the back of the stadium all the way down. To the stage floats. Saw that at the Entertainment cent Empty Container Center. Yes, indeed, I was there that night. Actually, that was such a good show. That was so much fun. It was funny because because I was there to see the show before they came to Adelaide, because we were doing the backstage of the of the so they flew me up there and then to see the show, so I knew what I was talking about when we're leading up to the actual concert in Adelaide. But I went backstage after the show and a guy called Guy Pratt, you remember guy based for ice House And I saw him there and I said, what are you doing here? Because I'm playing Which man are you playing with? Because Pink Floyd, who do you think I'm playing with? I didn't even realize you were on stage because it was so big you couldn't see it. It was huge, and they had like two drummers, and yeah, it was amazing on stage, had a big round screen behind with the with the lights shining down on it. It looks like a drumhead almost, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was so much fun. The cascading waterfall underneath the round screen. That's right. And those lights that spun around on the front of the stage too, so they sort of strove. They had like triangle shape and there was strobes on one and strip lights on another. And yeah, that was very Actually build the wall for the wall though, like the wall, they built a wall. They did the one in. But they also did the wall. Gig Roger Waters did the wall. When the Berlin wall came out came down. Oh yeah, I got that album. Every other. Can ask a question, how does that show? How does an episode about the Pro Audio Suite end up in a conversation about Pink Floyd. Sorry the passport for you. Along the way, Remember me saying that. That's why there's anybody up there that was fun is over? The Pro Audio Suite. And Austrian audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging. Tax Suport from George the Tech. 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