WinterMute

Found the cage nuts, lost the driver twice, I love this job...

staying up till Monday, then it's going to the recycling centre.

New rack arrived this morning, guess who can't find the cage nuts...

My wife (who runs a major UK fashion company) designates anything electrical/mechanical as a "blue job" sadly, so I'm stuck with those in the house. Beedster, there are these amazing new things called "patch bays" change your life mate.

I have, on occasion, wired a d-sub before realising I'd left the cable support clamp off... Thats why I now use the ones that come in 2 parts... Grazed knuckles... check. Bumped head... check. Swearing... check.

Steel 18U 19" rack cabinet with front door and removable side panels. Castors and stabilising feet. Fully adjustable and/or removable cable management to rear, Rear rack strips included. Door closes but has no key. Aperture to top for fan system. Fits in a big estate, otherwise van needed. Perfect for servers (obvs) but also studio rack kit, PA amps etc. Nr Windsor. Edit: I found the fan unit! not currently working very well, I think the 9v PSU is kaput.

Finally getting round to updating the studio, I've been doing it piecemeal for years and the cabling has gotten scruffy, plus I need to move some rack units around to make room for some new kit. Having a new rack unit built to house the amps and storage, and adding 2 new units to the upper racks, an RND Master Buss Processor and an RND Master Buss Transformer, a second Shelford will eventually be added and the UAD X16 will go into the side rack. I foresee an extended period of cable wrangling in my immediate future...

8U 19" rack unit Front and rear rack strips (although one set is that annoying sliding captured nut system...) Handles to sides, 4 good rack wheels, 2 of which lock. Catches for front and rear lids, but no lids. Black Tolex covered. Nr Windsor, London

Steel 18U 19" rack cabinet with front door and removable side panels. Castors and stabilising feet. Fully adjustable and/or removable cable management to rear, Rear rack strips included. Door closes but has no key. Aperture to top for fan system. Fits in a big estate, otherwise van needed. Perfect for servers (obvs) but also studio rack kit, PA amps etc. Near Windsor, London.

Yes you can, works with anything that has the EUCON protocol, it doesn't;t work as well as Protools however, some of the really useful mixing functions are absent.

Unfortunately Protools soft-synths aren't anywhere near as good as Logic/Abelton, but then its a different beast. We've taken to using Logic as a writing platform so as to preserve continuity between the various set ups, then In throw it all into PT once the demo is done, re-record everything and add or subtract for the arrangement and then mix. I have a few 3rd party synths in PT to expand on the Logic parts, SSD5 for Drummer replacement parts etc. but often I simply bounce the audio from the Logic session files. Logic/Abelton are perfectly capable platforms without a ruck of 3rd party soft-synths. I prefer PT as a tracking/mixing environment as I have an Avid S3 desk, but I think Logic is much better for writing/programming.

I remove all the UAD2 plug-ins not in my library and put them in an folder marked "unused plug-ins" saves you scrolling through a list of plug-ins you don't have access to. Only needs doing every time they release an update... 🤣