Best Luff Podcasts (2026)

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S1E7 – Cheese Fight Club 36:56

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2d ago36:56

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It's National Lost Bookmark Appreciation Week, so start by bookmarking this podcast right now! This episode features a vegetable that hums its own theme tune, a whispering fish, and a listener phone-in so lame that the studio umbrella plant walked out. Plus, horoscopes that may change your life, the latest metaphysical miracle from Psychic Brian, a…

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S1E7 – Cheese Fight Club

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It’s National Lost Bookmark Appreciation Week, so start by bookmarking this podcast right now! This episode features a vegetable that hums its own theme tune, a whispering fish, and a listener phone-in so lame that the studio umbrella plant walked out. Plus, horoscopes that may change your life, the latest metaphysical miracle from Psychic Brian, a…

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S1E6- The Christmas Special

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With tangerines and tinsel galore, here’s a holiday episode wrapped in absurdity and sprinkled with cheer. Dive into festive madness with mince pies, egg nog and a a life-sized chocolate Christmas tree. Plus, duck mail mysteries, Tarot Card Bingo and the woman who invented Christmas Eve. Prepare to be gloriously unbothered! Written and presented by…

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S1E6 – The Christmas Special 36:45

10d ago36:45

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With tangerines and tinsel galore, here's a holiday episode wrapped in absurdity and sprinkled with cheer. Dive into festive madness with mince pies, egg nog and a a life-sized chocolate Christmas tree. Plus, duck mail mysteries, Tarot Card Bingo and the woman who invented Christmas Eve. Prepare to be gloriously unbothered! Written and presented by…

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S1E5 – Self Aware Biscuits

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Join Brian and his quirky crew for the only podcast that smells faintly of lemon drizzle cake. Featuring, Gus the Sofa in a haunted house, the origin of queuing in a French village and a heartfelt rant about car mechanics. Plus, horoscopes, trivia, and cosmic musings. Luff Actually is absurd, mildly witty and always delightfully odd. Written and pr…

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S1E5 – Self Aware Biscuits 34:27

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Join Brian and his quirky crew for the only podcast that smells faintly of lemon drizzle cake. Featuring, Gus the Sofa in a haunted house, the origin of queuing in a French village and a heartfelt rant about car mechanics. Plus, horoscopes, trivia, and cosmic musings. Luff Actually is absurd, mildly witty and always delightfully odd. Written and pr…

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S1E4 – Thunder Road 35:31

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The only podcast that is still legally classified as a small festival. Left-handed compliments, speed camera rants, psychic celebrity readings, and square-shaped weather. Tune in, button up, and stay gloriously unbothered. Written and presented by Brian Luff. Produced by Brian Luff & Georgina Sowerby. Hand-crafted by the Production Village for Stud…

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S1E3 – Bar Codes on Bananas 31:45

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Heads up sensation seekers, it's "Unnecessary Exclamation Mark Week". Plus, paper clip designs, cosmic burps and a rant about resident parking in London. Also, the Museum of Misplaced Items and this week's much anticipated "Luff Actually Horoscope". Featuring, Gus the Sofa, Tex Magnum, Kaysi Valayzee and Flirty Gertie. Written and presented by Bria…

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Audio and the C++ Standard with Timur Doumler | WolfTalk #031 1:20:28

1M ago1:20:28

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How do you become a C++ Standards Committee member? Why is C++ prevalent in audio? Should you still use it for audio software? Honestly, Timur Doumler is someone I have looked up to ever since I saw his “C++ in the audio industry” talk at CppCon 2015. He has a rich development history with C++ and/or audio: developer at Native Instruments developer…

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Wave Digital Filters with Kurt Werner (Soundtoys, ex-Native Instruments, ex-iZotope) | WolfTalk #030 2:24:53

1M ago2:24:53

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Kurt James Werner, PhD, is a senior research scientist at Soundtoys and one of my favorite researchers in audio DSP (virtual analog modeling in particular). While you may not have read his papers, it’s very likely that you used one of the plugins he worked on: Neoverb Vinyl RX Guitar Rig (Hammond vibrato/chorus) Ozone Neutron Trash If you start pee…

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S1E2 – The Hexagon Storm of Saturn 34:45

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Sheep who respond to Alexa commands, how fast do microwave cookers rotate and a rant about cheating footballers. Plus, a goldfish called Patrick and a conversation with Tom Daly about battery storage. Featuring "Tarot Card Bingo" with Velma Clair and this week's edition of "Underwhelming" with Toby & Ellie. Written and presented by Brian Luff. Prod…

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S1E1 – Tarot Card Bingo 30:57

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A self-satisfied teapot, a man who tried to copyright the moon, and a rant about Amazon Prime. Plus, your Luff Actually Horoscopes, a man who waves at passing clouds, and an "astronaut-librarian" fancy dress costume. Featuring Gus the Sofa, Vicky the Quiz Queen and "The Guy Who Talks About Subbuteo". Written and presented by Brian Luff. Produced by…

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S2E10 - Season Finale 15:58

2M ago15:58

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The Moon Dreams have finally stopped occurring. Meanwhile, Melton Thornaby has married an alien, the hotel is running out of cornflakes, and doubt intensifies about whether the cast of this podcast are human beings or moths. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.…

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S2E9 – The Origami Planet 16:45

2M ago16:45

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An alien ship is sighted nearby. Plus, a TV channel that only shows kettles, a weeping tape machine in the studio, and a man who closely resembles Benedict Cumberbatch. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E8 – The Gilded Guillotine 18:06

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The clocks are striking 26 at Moth Hotel. Also, a completely hollow planet, a gadget that shuffles memories and news of a Holy Baguette at the Vatican. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E7 – Relativistic Momentum 17:19

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A new dream filtration unit appears in the ventilation shaft. Also, the ghostly art of dunking biscuits and a beauty salon opens at the Moth Hotel. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E6 – Probed 16:24

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An unexpectedly pleasant experience for Melton Thornaby, at the hands of his alien abductors. Plus, the ghost of a suffragette, a tutorial on space time curvature and a planet-hopping theatre troupe visits Moth Hotel. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.…

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S2E5 – A Disappearing Hat 15:58

2M ago15:58

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When is a moth not a moth? Plus, a shrinking moon, Zero-G Dodgeball and very sad news about an umbrella plant. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E4 - Haunting Histories 15:18

2M ago15:18

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Wine tasting with aliens, a starship flattened like cosmic Play-Doh, and worrying news that the residents are starting to complain. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E3 – A Doughnut on a Trampoline 16:02

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A clockwork teardrop, a clarinet for tuning gravity, and why no-one has ever truly sat on a chair. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E2 – Moon Dreams 15:54

2M ago15:54

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A planet whose continents resemble enormous fingerprints, pressed into blue clay. Plus, a disturbing news transmission from Earth and an announcement that Moth Hotel trading cards are now available to collect. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S2E1 – Dark Horizon 17:01

3M ago17:01

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New series. Moth Hotel has launched into space and is searching for Melton Thornaby in the void. Plus, Low-Gravity Wrestling, Moon Dreams with Buzz Aldrin, and a report on the installation of a new "Coincidence Regulator". Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.…

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Moth Hotel - Season 2 Trailer 0:53

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The search for Melton Thornaby begins here. Season 2 of the award-nominated Moth Hotel starts Friday 17th October on Spotify, Amazon and Apple Podcasts. If you are late, the podcast will not wait for you.By Studio Senseless

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S1E10 - Season Finale 18:46

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Melton Thornaby has been abducted by aliens, and Moth Hotel is drawing up plans to go and rescue him. Meanwhile, there's a voicemail from the Society for the Protection of Imaginary Friends and we meet a cat who likes going to meetings. Extended episode. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.…

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S1E9 – The Eighteenth Century 22:35

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Due to a fault with the time machine in the linen cupboard, Moth Hotel has travelled back in time to the year 1760. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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Designing Digital Musical Instruments with Victor Zappi | WolfTalk #029 2:02:02

3M ago2:02:02

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Victor Zappi is a creator, researcher, and educator at the intersection of music, technology, and interaction design. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Northeastern University. In his career, among others, he worked on the Bela hardware platform during his time at Queen Mary University of London’s prestigious Centre for …

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S1E8 - A Tooth Floating in a Jar 17:03

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Foraging for lost dreams in the woods, something rather odd in the Moth Hotel Museum, and a giant angel with an important message. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S1E7 – Lava Lamp 16:29

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Where is Bernard? Also, Jack has been staring into the void again, and someone has moved Moth Hotel exactly six inches to the left. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S1E6 - The Zoo 16:35

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A museum for mistakes, the dangers of salad dressing, and why the animals are behaving strangely at Moth Hotel. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S1E5 – The Library 15:40

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Wrestling with crocodiles, a chair that refuses to be sat on, and a big room full of books with no endings. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless. Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S1E4 – The Time Machine 15:45

4M ago15:45

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A strange new object in the Moth Hotel museum, something strange in the linen cupboard, and an innovative new drug for treating "restless interior monologue syndrome". Written and produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff production for Studio Senseless.By Studio Senseless

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S1E3 – Genesis of Moth Hotel 15:27

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An underwater production of Hamlet, romance in a graveyard, and more fascinating insights into the dark history of Moth Hotel. Written & produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff Production for Studio SenselessBy Studio Senseless

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S1E2 - Biscuit Dreams 17:15

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More non-linear nonsense, featuring a very sarcastic satnav and an extremely surreal horoscope. Written & produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff Production for Studio SenselessBy Studio Senseless

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S1E1 – Welcome to Moth Hotel 16:53

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A voicemail from the void, a very dubious wine tasting, and news of three pianos washed up on the rocks. Written & produced by Brian Luff. A Sowerby & Luff Production for Studio SenselessBy Studio Senseless

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Moth Hotel - Official Trailer 1:28

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New from Sowerby & Luff. Moth Hotel is not a podcast in the usual sense. It's a weekly transmission from an unidentified audio source: a collage of lost interviews, voicemails, overheard stories, abandoned monologues, forgotten broadcasts, and fractured conversations stitched together like audio driftwood. Every episode sounds like it's falling apa…

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Designing Music Software Architecture with Ilias Bergström 1:28:29

6M ago1:28:29

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Ilias Bergström is a software engineer, researcher, and musician from Sweden. For most of his professional career, spanning over 20 years, he has been working on, as he describes it, “time-based media software.” In the audio programming world, this means digital audio workstations, video editors, and live audio-visual performance software. He gener…

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Reverbs, Pitch Shifters & Freelancing with Geraint Luff | WolfTalk #027 1:27:35

10M ago1:27:35

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Geraint Luff is a seasoned audio DSP developer and the founder of Signalsmith Audio. Geraint’s presentations, such as “Let’s Write a Reverb” and “Four Ways to Write a Pitch Shifter,” are among the most popular talks at the Audio Developer Conference (ADC) thanks to Geraint’s clarity of explanation and easy-to-understand visuals (not to mention the …

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Reverb, Spatial & Immersive Audio with Orchisama Das | WolfTalk #026 1:27:05

11M ago1:27:05

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Orchisama Das is an outstanding audio researcher known for her work in virtual acoustics, artificial reverberation, and immersive audio. She holds a PhD from Stanford University’s prestigious CCRMA and has contributed to groundbreaking research at leading universities and major tech companies. During this interview, we talk about her path in academ…

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Generating AI Music with Julian Parker (Stability AI, ex-TikTok, ex-Native Instruments) | WolfTalk #025 2:05:20

1y ago2:05:20

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Julian’s career is incredible: from natural sciences through a master’s in physical modeling, a PhD in virtual analog modeling, an almost decade-long position at Native Instruments, all the way to TikTok and Stability AI, where he’s working now on generative music algorithms. There are few people who have such a rich background in audio research an…

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Successful Audio Plugin Freelancing with Jatin Chowdhury (ChowDSP) | WolfTalk #024 1:58:44

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Jatin Chowdhury is quite well known in the audio programming community for his numerous contributions: various open- and closed-source audio plugins, a few published research papers on Virtual Analog modeling, a few audio-related talks, especially at the Audio Developer Conference, insightful Medium articles on creating audio software in general, s…

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Building DAW Software with Dave Rowland (Tracktion, Prism Sound) | WolfTalk #023 1:40:54

1+ y ago1:40:54

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Dave Rowland is the CTO of Audio Squadron: a group of audio-related companies. More specifically, he’s the architect and the lead developer of the Waveform digital audio workstation (DAW) and an Audio Manager of Prism Sound (which focuses on audio hardware manufacturing). He’s also a very successful speaker, having given talks at conferences like A…

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Audio C++ Architecture, Optimization & Best Practices With Gustav Andersson | WolfTalk #022 1:33:41

1+ y ago1:33:41

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Gustav Andersson is a Swedish senior C++ audio developer at Elk Audio. He has worked on their Sensus guitar featuring a rich set of controls, Elk Audio OS for embedded platforms, Sushi digital audio workstation, and Elk Live software for live music collaboration over the internet. Having studied Electrical Engineering and Digital Signal Processing,…

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How To Master Real-Time Audio C++ With Fabian Renn-Giles | WolfTalk #021 1:50:16

1+ y ago1:50:16

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In this podcast episode, I was delighted to be able one of the most prominent people of the audio developer landscape: Fabian Renn-Giles. Fabian is a former lead developer of JUCE, currently working as an independent contractor. He has worked with many great companies (e.g., iZotope, Behringer) and has an incredible portfolio. He is regarded as an …

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How To Learn Audio Signal Processing And Audio Circuit Modeling With Eric Tarr | WolfTalk #020 1:23:48

2y ago1:23:48

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Eric Tarr is a professor at the Belmont University where he teaches Audio Signal Processing. In the audio programming community, he’s most famous for his book “Hack Audio” on the basics of digital signal processing using Matlab and his point-to-point modeling library for analog audio circuit emulation. Eric’s work has definitely been an inspiration…

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How To Secure Your Audio Code Using Rust With Chase Kanipe | WolfTalk #019 53:30

2y ago53:30

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Chase Kanipe: a cybersecurity professional, a musician, and an audio programmer (formerly C++ with JUCE, currently Rust). Chase is most widely known through his incredible Audio Developer Conference talks: Tips From a Hacker on License Checking at ADC22 Writing Elegant DSP Code with Rust at ADC23 (t…

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How To Transition From Live Sound To Freelance Audio Programming With Ruurd Adema | WolfTalk #018 1:36:42

2y ago1:36:42

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In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Ruurd Adema: a freelance audio developer from the Netherlands working primarily in JUCE and C++ (but not only). I met Ruurd at the Audio Developer Conference 2023 and I believe his story is incredibly inspiring; he went from being a live sound engineer doing front-of-house (FOH) mixing at the bigges…

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How Can a Mixing Engineer Become an Audio Programmer with Linus Corneliusson | WolfTalk #017 42:18

2y ago42:18

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In this podcast episode, I was very pleased to guest Linus Corneliusson: a mixing engineer and editing assistant at Fascination Street Studios who has shifted towards audio plugin development. I met Linus (and his colleague Jacek) at the Audio Developer Conference 2022 and he’s definitely one of the most friendly and funny people in the community. …

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Rust Audio Programming with Ian Hobson | WolfTalk #016 1:34:49

2y ago1:34:49

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For this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview Ian Hobson: a former DJ who transitioned to audio programming, worked at Ableton, and then launched a successful freelancing career. Ian is well-known in the community for his talks on Rust at the Audio Developer Conferences and on YouTube. He’s also created his own programming language: Koto. We m…

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2023 in the Rearview/the Road Ahead in 2024 37:57

2y ago37:57

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It's the final lap before the Drive Podcast is parked for the year. Trent and James unpack the final new car sales figures, including a very hotly contested top spot, they review Drive's most popular stories, they give a peek into current happenings for Car of the Year and they put some bold predictions for 2024 firmly (and permanently) on the reco…

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Ken Flynn - Better Driving: Is Skill Enough? 28:13

2y ago28:13

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In the last of our safety focused feature interviews for the year, Susannah sits down with Driver Dynamics’ Kev Flynn, a driver trainer of immense experience. They discuss the difference between being skilled and being safe, how car safety advice depends on the car that you drive, his experiences with counter terrorism driving training, and what dr…