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25 mentions in 16 episodes.

Bleachers

56:49 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I use Pro Tools in a very like kindergarten way... bass is red, vocals are blue, guitars are green”
His DAW of choice, colour-coded by instrument and automated manually like a console.

Bombay Bicycle Club

55:15 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“It's Windows only, which is why I use it. Otherwise, I would definitely be using Pro Tools.”
Jack says he would use Pro Tools if Samplitude weren't Windows-only.

Bring Me The Horizon

54:41 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I can't do what he does on Pro Tools, but I can sit on, you know, like Logic and separate stuff.”
Pro Tools is the DAW producer Dan works in, contrasted with Oli's own simpler setup.
1:05:28 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“split out into Pro Tools, so treating it like a real drum kit, then adding samples, and it all just happens on one MIDI note”
Dan explains their Pro Tools drum template where GGD outputs are split like a real kit and triggered from single MIDI notes.
1:39:29 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“No, no, no, that was the version of Pro Tools I was on. Yeah, I've rolled it back and it's been wicked.”
Dan blames a Pro Tools version for crashes and says rolling back fixed it.

CMAT

1:21:55 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“We sent it through like a Leslie-type emulator, just like a stock one on Pro Tools, I think.”
The record was produced in Pro Tools; a stock rotary plugin treated the Bee Gees-style 'woo woo' backing vocal hook.

Charli XCX

17:56 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I'm in Logic now, not in the Pro Tools session. We did everything in Logic and then I just stemmed it in Pro Tools”
George explains his workflow: write and produce in Logic, then stem into Pro Tools for tidying clicks, S's and adding 'nicer plugins' before mix.

Clean Bandit

39:55 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“annoyingly, I don't have the Pro Tools session... we tend to build the beats in Ableton and then record any real instruments and vocals in Pro Tools”
Clean Bandit's workflow splits beat-making in Ableton Live and live instrument/vocal tracking in Pro Tools.
58:09 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I've got an incarnation of it in Ableton and in Pro Tools, because I use Pro Tools to mix and record vocals and record real instruments.”
Jack splits workflow between Pro Tools for vocals, real instruments and mixing, and Ableton for beats and sequencing.

Djo

29:04 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I feel a little bit lost, but I learned Pro Tools during the making of this album.”
Adam Thein switched to Pro Tools for the album sessions, which is the DAW the session is being played back in.

HAIM

8:04 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“he brought his Pro Tools session and he had programmed the drums”
Co-producer Buddy Ross handed over his Pro Tools session containing the programmed drums that became the foundation of Relationships.
25:54 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“after we tracked the vocals, we just used Pro Tools to push it just a little bit later”
Pro Tools was used to nudge all lead and backing vocals a few milliseconds behind the beat at Danielle's request.

Hayley Williams

1:58:03 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I started to learn Pro Tools like years back before I started writing Petals for Armor. Not for me.”
Hayley tried learning Pro Tools around Petals for Armor but didn't take to it.

Imogen Heap

23:41 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“this might be the first track that I fully mixed in Ableton, because before that I was very much Pro Tools and would go to Pro Tools to mix”
Explains that this record marked her switch from mixing in Pro Tools to mixing entirely in Ableton Live, with a learning curve around bouncing and bit rates.

Jeff Goldblum

12:07 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“She's like amazing in Pro Tools herself and knows how to do all that stuff.”
Alex Frank praises Ariana Grande's own Pro Tools skills — she recorded and printed her finished vocal with EQ and reverb in New York and sent it over.
1:06:19 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“Pro Tools is my main platform, although I use Logic.”
Asked for his essential piece of kit, engineer/producer Scott Gilman names Pro Tools as his main DAW at The Hobby Shop.

Kae Tempest

20:10 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“When we came to record the live instrumentations, then we'll bounce out of Ableton and we'll get it into Pro Tools, and that's where it stays until I mix it.”
Pro Tools is the destination DAW for live recording, refining and mixing after the Ableton sketching stage.
41:40 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“This is probably at the point where we started bouncing out into Pro Tools, in that it's basically drums, piano, and K.”
The Statue in the Square session is shown after transfer into Pro Tools for refinement and mixing.

Rex

34:26 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“After that we put it into Pro Tools and these guys were doing their thing over in London”
The Ableton sessions were transferred into Pro Tools for finishing the album in London.
1:19:01 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I think we tried to translate that as best as we could in the Pro Tools session”
The demo's Soundtoys/Valhalla vocal treatments were recreated, slightly dialled back, in the Pro Tools mix.

Royal Blood

10:50 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“We took my demos and then threw them into Pro Tools, and then began working on them.”
Pro Tools is the DAW the band builds their records in, importing Mike's demos and developing them at their own studio.

Snarky Puppy

30:06 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“This is the premix Pro Tools session that I sent to our engineer.”
League opens the premix Pro Tools session for 'Bet', with 80–90 mic channels he edited while Nick Hard mixed in parallel.
38:08 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“In the Pro Tools session, we don't even have them as Drum Set 1, 2 or 3. We just have them actually by name.”
Explains Pro Tools session organisation for three simultaneous drum kits, labelled by drummer's name.
1:38:44 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I love giving a Pro Tools session to a mixing engineer that doesn't already feel full and mixed.”
League delivers Pro Tools sessions only 70–80% full so the mix engineer has creative room.

St. Vincent

1:16 · Pro Tools · named · high confidence
“I have one laptop that has Pro Tools on it that is collecting dust in an apartment in New York somewhere.”
Annie Clark explains she isn't a laptop producer but works in Pro Tools on a desktop rig in her own studio.