SSL One First Look: Tiny Interface, Real Knobs
The Pro Audio Suite
This week on The Pro Audio Suite, George brings out a little show and tell with the SSL One, SSL’s compact single mic preamp interface aimed squarely at the same world as the Scarlett Solo and other simple home studio boxes. The team gets into what actually matters for voice actors and home studio users, including physical gain knobs, direct monitoring, high pass filters, 4K mode, USB-C connections, headphone control, auto gain, clip protection, and why simple interfaces are sometimes the best interfaces. There is also a little live testing with Twisted Wave, a quick look at Source Elements...
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Can You Trust What You’re Hearing? Monitoring, Headphones and Room Lies
The Pro Audio Suite
This week on The Pro Audio Suite, the crew dives into one of the biggest traps in audio production: trusting what you think you’re hearing. Robbo talks about working in an unfamiliar studio and being reminded how much your room, routing, monitoring chain, headphones, templates and habits shape the way you work. The conversation moves into headphone mixing, crossfeed, SPL monitoring, virtual control rooms, Sonarworks, Waves room emulation, EQ Mac, old school graphic EQs, and the fine art of not destroying your mix because your room has a 120Hz attitude problem. There’s also a proper old...
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Source Elements Recorder, First Look
The Pro Audio Suite
This week on The Pro Audio Suite, we take a first look at the new Source Elements Recorder, a browser-based recording tool designed for voice actors, producers and modern remote workflows. George opens it up live during the episode with no rehearsal, no manual and no safety net, while Robert walks him through the setup, recording options and deeper features. Along the way, they explore sample rates, bit depth, mono and stereo recording, loudness targets, waveform displays, peak meters, noise floor readings, take management, ratings, notes, level conforming and export options. What starts out...
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Acceptable Audio: What Voice Actors Should Listen For
The Pro Audio Suite
The team breaks down what “acceptable audio” really means for voice actors recording from home, from reflections and noise to mic placement, editing, clothing rustle and using reference recordings. What actually counts as acceptable audio when you’re recording voiceover from home? That question came up after Robbo spoke with a group of aspiring voice actors in Perth. The advice was simple enough, don’t overprocess, don’t gate everything, and send clean raw audio when asked. But one student asked the thing every beginner wants to know: how do I know if what I’m recording is...
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Apple Silicon, Old Macs, and Why Working Gear Shouldn’t Die
The Pro Audio Suite
Apple has not always been known as the bargain option, but the latest Apple Silicon Macs might be changing that conversation. In this episode, the team gets into the surprising value of the M4 Mac Mini, why even a base model can be serious overkill for many voice actors, and how smaller machines like the MacBook Air and MacBook “Neo” style systems compare for remote sessions, Source Connect, Pro Tools, and travel rigs. The conversation also wanders into classic Pro Audio Suite territory, including old Macs that refuse to die, running Linux or Windows on ageing Apple hardware, right to...
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Studio Rebuilds, Vintage Gear & Reclaimed Timber Rabbit Holes
The Pro Audio Suite
This week on The Pro Audio Suite, things go gloriously off the rails. AP has been rebuilding his studio, and is talking reclaimed timber and custom desks, George is showing off weird vintage Apple gear, and somewhere in the middle, the boys fall down a rabbit hole involving Korg M1s, old ISDN boxes, retro synths, ancient Macs, and why audio people can never throw anything away. There’s also a surprisingly deep discussion about why the physical studio environment matters creatively, why a tidy desk changes your mindset, and how modern workflows are reshaping how studios are built and used....
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Fix Bad Audio Instantly? Inside Waves’ Voice Regeneration Tool
The Pro Audio Suite
What happens when audio is so bad… even the best plugins can’t save it? In this episode of The Pro Audio Suite, we’re joined by Michael “Gomez” Pearce-Adams from Waves Audio to talk about Voice Regeneration, a new AI-driven tool designed to rebuild poor-quality dialogue into something actually usable. And this isn’t just noise reduction or EQ… it’s a complete rethink of how broken audio gets fixed. We dig into: Why this will never be a plugin How AI is actually “rebuilding” voice recordings Real-world use cases, from podcast disasters to phone interviews What this means...
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TwistedWave 32.3 and 32.4, One Keystroke Processing and a New Repair Tool
The Pro Audio Suite
TwistedWave has dropped updates that feel like they were built for anyone smashing through a pile of auditions or VO edits every day. George walks through what’s new in 32.3 and 32.4, including the ability to apply a Batch directly to your currently open file and map that Batch to a single keystroke. That means you can normalise to a target level, then apply a processing stack, all in one hit, without the old multi step workflow. Then there’s the new Repair tool, a quick “auto heal” style fix for little clicks, mouth noises, and short waveform anomalies. Select the problem area, hit a...
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Fixing Loopback the Easy Way, Nexus Suite Explained
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Loopback is one of the most common and misunderstood problems in home studios. In this episode of The Pro Audio Suite, the team breaks down how the new Nexus Suite, specifically Nexus Review, makes it dramatically easier to capture system audio, create proper mix-minus setups, and send playback to clients without complicated routing. If you have ever wrestled with UA Console routing, virtual drivers, Chrome output quirks, or Mac system audio conflicts, this one is for you. We cover: • Why traditional loopback setups get messy fast • The UA console routing method and its limitations • How...
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Who Owns Audio Now? The Industry Consolidation Problem
The Pro Audio Suite
In this episode of The Pro Audio Suite, the team dives into some major shifts in the audio industry. Audio Tonics has acquired DPA, Austrian Audio, SSL, Harrison and more. What does this wave of consolidation mean for boutique brands and the future of innovation? Then we unpack the developing Native Instruments insolvency proceedings. With Kontakt, iZotope, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx under that umbrella, what could this mean for producers, composers and post professionals? And does this reignite the subscriptions versus perpetual debate? We also wander into: • Neumann U47 reissue rumours...
info_outlineThis week on The Pro Audio Suite, George brings out a little show and tell with the SSL One, SSL’s compact single mic preamp interface aimed squarely at the same world as the Scarlett Solo and other simple home studio boxes.
The team gets into what actually matters for voice actors and home studio users, including physical gain knobs, direct monitoring, high pass filters, 4K mode, USB-C connections, headphone control, auto gain, clip protection, and why simple interfaces are sometimes the best interfaces.
There is also a little live testing with Twisted Wave, a quick look at Source Elements Recorder on mobile, some PASport VO phone patch chat, and the usual collection of detours involving Jack FM, trap doors, yacht rock, and turntables that apparently survive being moved while playing.
If you are a voice actor, producer, podcaster, or home studio owner trying to choose an audio interface without accidentally buying a puzzle box, this one is worth a watch.
Thanks to our sponsors, Austrian Audio.
Recorded using Source-Connect, edited by Andrew Peters, and mixed by Voodoo Sound.