Just a Phase
Little Yellow Thoughts
macOS Sequoia is now out - is it the right choice for my system?
The big headline feature was the introduction of Apple Intelligence, offering machine learning tools to assist with writing, image generation and an improved Siri assistant. These features are of limited applicability for a DAW system - so is there anything of benefit from the new OS for audio professionals?
Recording acoustic instruments for your compositions is a great way to make your music stand out, but it can be difficult to get high-quality results in a non-ideal space. There are a lot of factors that can impact the outcome - acoustics, microphone technique, and hardware configuration, to name a few… Here we discuss some considerations to help you get the best out of your home studio recordings.
With audio professionals increasingly working across multiple sites and often collaborating on projects between continents, flexible & reliable data synchronisation systems have become a necessity for many. We consider a variety of options including Syncthing, Dropbox and Google Drive and also explore how the system can double up as an off-site backup.
It’s one of those things that initially seems like such a luxury - a purpose-built workstation desk; and it’s normally the first thing to go when the budget is squeezed. But why? This is where you’re going to work for hours and hours every day for a large part of your life! All that expensive equipment you have is going to be used on this desk. So why would you make do with something that is going to make your life more difficult and, in many cases we’ve seen, even painful?
Despite being intended for something else altogether the Yamaha NS-10 became the studio reference monitor of the choice for control rooms across the world. But since production ceased 18 years ago our recording studios and the loudspeakers inside them have changed dramatically. Pete discusses the past and future of the studio reference monitor.
