Feb 27

This post focuses on what sorts of adaptors or connectors you’ll likely want to have handy in your production studio.

It’s usually cheaper and more flexible to have raw connectors and cable than it is to have a ton of pre-made adaptors.  Tomorrow’s post I’ll go into how to make your own cables.

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Feb 12

This post focuses on an idea I’ve had for a while: a rolling station that can be moved easily around the studio to ease tracking difficulty when working alone.

One problem that I’ve run into is that, when working in a studio setup that includes a control room and a tracking room, it becomes very difficult to track in the tracking room by yourself.  Changing preamp settings, controlling the DAW, and monitoring all get complicated when working alone.  For a while now I’ve had an idea to create a rolling station to add on to my standard DAW setup.

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Jan 15

This post focuses on wrapping cables so that they unravel easily without knots or annoying insulator memory. Roadie wrap!

It’s way easier just to demonstrate with a video…

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