Entry 21 – Building a Rack That Doesn’t Fit
A Real-Time Studio Rebuild (and Why This Series Looks the Way It Does) In the previous post, I...
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Entry 20 – Noise and Rack Dreams
From “I Don’t Need a Rack” to Building One Anyway In a previous post, I talked about my slow...
Entry 19 – Progress, Problems, and Distraction
Discovering the Patchbay: The Utility I Didn’t Know I Needed In earlier posts, I’ve mentioned...
Entry 18 – From Shortages to Solutions
A Bit of Context: Why This Studio Redesign Unfolded the Way It Did When I look back at this...
Entry 17 – From Mess to Progress
The Chain Reaction Problem: When One Change Affects Everything Else One of the biggest...
Entry 16 – Experimenting
Creativity in the Studio: Music, Gear, and Everything in Between When I think about creativity...
Entry 15 – Figuring Things Out as I Go
Planning, Not Planning, and Everything in Between In earlier posts, I’ve talked about the...
Entry 14 – Working Without a Plan
When Experimentation Becomes the Biggest Growing Pain Looking back, the desire to experiment...
Entry 13 – Audio Problems
Chasing Ghosts: Learning to Understand Noise in a Hardware Studio This is probably the most...
Entry 12 – Cables, Power, and Setbacks
Powering a Home Studio: Caution, Reality, and Practical Considerations This is a slightly...
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