It changes with the room in my experience but generally there's a center area with audio and visual monitors symmetrically positioned behind or on a desk. This is the mixing position. Usually on my right is outboard/hardware. On my left, patchbay and paper. A bit further right is another video monit...

I've used regular old burlap on a few panels. Being in America, we don't have "Cara" but I use this:https://www.atsacoustics.com/Sona-Acous ... abric.html

Same thing I reckon. Much easier to work with, much prettier to look at, not as itchy.

Seems to have morphed into the MPK261 these days: I shall investigate. Almost the same box - colored pads and annoying colors everywhere, but functionally equivalent. I can't believe how inexpensive it is. I use the transport function alot when recording myself on guitar or vox. I have my little st...

I'm no keyboardist and have a controller for exactly the reasons you describe. I've had my AKAI MPK61 for gosh, I don't even know how long. At least a decade. Super versatile, utterly reliable and supports all the functions you mentioned. Highly recommend you take a look. No idea what they go for th...

Yes, that's the way it's done. Load you up with everything because it's just too damn hard to write programs that read licenses. I hated Waves, invested in Universal Audio instead and will never download another software update from them again for exactly this reason. It's simple mediocre managers o...

I'm in Canada... and the paper just said: "You, ____________ may share this music with the performers listed as who performs the songs and they may credit the music as their own writing." Then I signed it. The recipient was in the US. Walk away. You have two jurisdictions to settle before...

by the quality of their tailoring

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Watchmaker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:23 pm Whatever it takes to keep you centered and growing!

Equipment has made me anxious and poor.

srsly. It's my retirement fund in liquid assets guaranteed to return -50% on my investment

I have two NYS-SPP1's both branded Neutrik (Rean appears to be a re-branding??) and a dbx 48 pt TRS patchbay, as well as 2 ART XLR patchbays and have had no issues at all with any of it. One of the Neutrik's I bought used and had to clean but no trouble after that. This configuration's been in place...

Over the years I have gone through ungodly amounts of gear and used to purge every three to five years. People used to love it when I went through a clean out phase, deals galore. Gear represents alot to me: tool, fantasy, envy, disappointment, nemesis, obstacle, challenge, failure and success. I ca...

bad players are either future good players or playing in front of bad listeners

Easy times make soft people, hence the utterly pathetic West. As times are going to get very tough here shortly, I have high hopes that the arts in general will become stronger. God knows we children of Capitalism deserve everything coming to us. Maybe treating charts as a valuable thing will go the...

I dunno. I'm sympathetic to the appeal to "professional" as a vague limiter for guidance. It is, after all, endemic to the advertising of every single product out there. No one's selling "The buskers console!" or the "late night beer breath wish I hadn't smoked so much beste...

Probably not going to help, but...I have noticed that Windows itself does not always do a good install. In fact, just this last week I had to reinstall windows three times to get it to run with the proper permissions set on both the C:\ drive and registry items themselves. I honestly do not understa...

I have had my Nero since they first came out. No issues ever. zero. Sounds great, highly functional.

I use the optical out from my Vizio TV without any issues whatsoever.

I never understood why people expect to get paid for playing music. Unless of course you're an actual genius or prodigy, the rest of us simply aren't worth much money. I used to chase money but realized it's a lot like collecting dog poo. All you have to do is decide how dirt you want to get when pi...

tick-tock or should I say tiktok?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/spotify ... tinue.html

The streaming services will continue to scam investors while making a hash of royalty payment schemes until the energy to run all those server farms gets too expensive. Which won't be long now.

nope. I use console tape and label every one of them when I get new gear. Plus, I keep them always together with their intended device.

I can't read print the size of cockroach footprints.

These days you're spoiled for choice and can hardly go wrong. The Apollo gear is great even without plug ins. Focusrite makes excellent pres as well. I use an aggregate device in Mac using the Focusrite 8PreX and an Apollo 8 which provides more than enough options. RME is beloved in the EU/UK, almos...

The Bing walk through is incorrect for build 19042...Settings>System>Storage>Temporary Files..

But it's always been this way. Sure, the new media platforms evolve the space a bit, but as far as fake news goes, BBC and NYT are hard to beat. Anyone remember the run up to the Iraq war? I can cite thousands of intentional lies pushed by the hallowed media giants. The silence is deafening. So lies...

Good lord. Funny thing, I live in the US and now that I've clicked that link from a UK customer, Reverb thinks I'm in the UK and is pricing everything in pounds lol. Now that's quality programming for ya. Better log off and clear me caches.

My deepest condolences

Technology, such as it is, also has a hard stop via one mechanism or another and those who've developed "archaic" skills, like farming, carpentry, masonry, knitting, etc. will fare better than those who learn how to use electron microscopes and fly spaceships. I know here at SOS there is l...

The changing of minds is unimportant - the dissemination of perspective to inform choice is all

Cheers!

Since becoming an iOS user just over a year ago I'm somewhat surprised at the frequency of updates. Jus' sayin'... And BWC is right... Pro and semi-pro audio is a minisculely small section of Windows' users. The majority don't need all the specialist tweaks and 'don't touch' amendments that many in...

IMO if you want to do music as a career, generally speaking you're going to have to completely chuck the ego to one side and be more of a craftsman and just love doing it for others (i.e. clients) as oppose to a way of exalting yourself, to any degree. Personally I think that from your teens to you...

It's a good idea to keep it up to date as the updates invariably contain security patches to fix vulnerabilities. If your PC is regularly online then it would be unwise not to install the updates as over time you're increasing the risk of picking up malware or having your computer otherwise comprom...

If you have to ask the answer is no! j/k but the answer lies in your use of the computer and whether you are limited in some meaningful way by your current set up. Absent debilitating performance issues or a gaping security threat, there's no compelling need to upgrade despite the allure of being at...