A client who teaches music production wanted to hear a student’s DAW output remotely, so I gave him a lesson in setting up Audiomovers, with me playing the part of the student.
He was doing some of his own teaching and music production lessons, and for one of his clients he needed to hear what was coming out of their DAW. He was unsure how to use the Audiomovers program, so he asked me to go through the whole process with him, from installing it to hearing the stream in his headphones.
How I use it myself
I really like the Audiomovers software. I’ve been using it for about five years, since it came out, and I use it every day to connect with my technical support and music tuition clients all over the world. It lets me hear the real-time audio output of their digital audio workstation through my headphones, as if I was sitting in the room with them.
Before Audiomovers and Source-Connect became widespread, I would have to listen to a client’s music over the phone, or they might post me WAV files on a CD or send me MP3s. Then I’d advise them on the changes they could make in their software, obviously not in real time, and back then it was the best option we had. Since Audiomovers became affordable and easy to install, it has upgraded the way I work with musicians remotely. I sometimes recommend it to clients, and some of them think about how they might use it in their own work, as this client did.
A practice run with me as the student
To test it, we did an example run, using Cubase on both systems. Unusually for my support sessions, he came into my computer by remote access rather than me going into his, and I took the place of the student. From there I showed him each step he’d need:
- Installing Audiomovers.
- Activating the Audiomovers LISTENTO plug-in on the master channel in Cubase.
- Logging in to activate it.
- Starting the stream.
- Copying the browser link and pasting it into his web browser.
The practice run worked, and he could hear my Cubase output in his browser with no problem. With the link open in his browser, he can hear the output of his client’s DAW on his headphones during their lessons.
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