TG: What brought you to Pro Tools | S6 and your setup?

JP: I'm very comfortable mixing in the box and for me, faders are really important for mixing music and dialog - you have to use your hands. I really like having the control surface angled to the side right next to my keyboard and mouse… With the faders and specifically the attention fader on my right hand, it's super fast and very easy to tweak one fader at a time by just clicking on it in Pro Tools and it pops onto the attention fader. I never have to move my head or move my hand far at all. My left hand never leaves the keyboard (for transport) and my right is free to grab the track I need. It's kind of an unorthodox setup but it works for me…

I love the Master Module touchscreen for navigating and the matching color-coding of tracks… And, 80% of what we do is in 5.1 surround sound so panning on the touch screen is something that I really love. It's fast and intuitive. The fader feel on the S6 is really great too. The color-coded knobs have intrigued me more to start integrating that into my workflow and move away from the mouse a bit more for plug-in control.

TG: You also have an Artist Series VO/Sound Design studio upstairs as well?

JP: Yeah, it was the concept and layout of my assistant AJ. He uses Pro Tools and the Artist controllers very similarly to how I use S6 where you can simply click on a track and it brings it to the lower 12 faders. The upper 8 faders we lock down for static tracks like Mic input, ISDN return, ISDN send, phone patch, etc… with Layouts. It's pretty cool and the price point was just right for that room.

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