This is an article about the difficult process Paul from Audio Support faced when trying to save a 2010 Mac Pro with a corrupted hard disk. In August 2023 I was contacted by Aaron Harry at Basstone Studios in Clapham, South London. He was having… Read More »Restoring a 2010 Mac Pro
Went to see a client in South East London who was having a problem with his Komplete Audio 6 audio interface disconnecting from Ableton Live every time he opened the program. The disconnections were also occurring randomly during his Ableton sessions. My client was working… Read More »Native Instruments’ Komplete Audio 6 audio interface disconnecting
Visited a school in West London to help the IT department with an installation of Cubase AI Elements 12 in their new music suite. All the typical problems with using Cubase on a school network were in effect with some new issues I hadn’t seen… Read More »Cubase AI Elements 12 installation in a school
Visited my client in South East London who was having problems installing his Auto-Tune plugins. Antares and Plugin Boutique had replied to our tickets and confirmed their servers were now back online again we were able to register and install all his new plugins. Spent… Read More »Installing Antares Auto-Tune and Vocodist
Visited OSR studios in East London to help with noise problems in their podcasting studio. Went though the signal path in depth and found the main culprit for the added noise was the processing features on the RODE RODECASTER Pro 2. Selected the right settings… Read More »Visit to OSR Studios in East London to help with noise problems in podcasting studio
Visited a client in North West London who I have been working with for a long time to help him prepare more tracks for his upcoming live show with a new band. We transferred songs created in Logic Pro X as both MIDI and audio… Read More »Transferring MIDI song files from Logic to an FA06 keyboard
Visited Central London to spend the day with my client who was having problems with his Yamaha FX550s. Looked at the routing within his studio and tried to work out why he was getting terrible noise and distortion problems with the signal chain of guitar/bass… Read More »Diagnosing noise problems with Yamaha FX550 effects box
On-site visit to my client in South East London. Helped him download and install Auto-Tune Pro X which he had bought from Plugin Boutique. We had problems with some of the licenses not being registered to his Plugin Boutique account and with connecting to the… Read More »Installing Antares Auto-Tune Pro X
On-site visit in North East London to a singer and multi-instrumentalist to help her make plans for her new studio setup based around Logic. Discussed acoustic panelling and what would be achievable in terms of noise isolation. Looked at her collection of microphones and we… Read More »Acoustic treatment consultancy