Entry 81 – Patchbay Planning and Connections
From “I Don’t Need One” to Three: How Patchbays Took Over My Studio In previous posts, I’ve...
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Entry 80 – Patchbay and Trans Y Install
Falling Into the World of Outboard Gear (Without Really Knowing Why) My decision to step into...
Entry 79 – Working Toward a Finished Rack
On Finishing What We Start Have you ever had trouble finishing what you start? It could be...
Entry 78 – Unboxing the Trans X
Longevity, Legacy, and Why Hardware Made Sense for Me In a previous post, I talked about how...
Entry 77 – Pro Channel Troubleshooting
Productivity vs. Problem-Solving: Where Does the Time Go? How much time do we actually spend in...
Entry 76 – Sorting Out the Pro Channel Issue
Troubleshooting: The Part of Studio Building No One Really Talks About One thing I learned...
Entry 75 – A Few Small Additions
What Is Illustrious Sound, Anyway? In this post, I want to take a moment to talk about my...
Entry 74 – All Over the Map 2
A Studio That’s Still Becoming As I’ve mentioned before, setting up a hardware synth studio was...
Entry 73 – All Over the Map
The DAWLESS Dream (And Why It Wasn’t Mine) One of the goals I was quietly chasing during my...
Entry 72 – Tidying Up and Finishing the Setup
Buying Into a Promise: Living With Evolving Hardware Have you ever purchased a piece of gear...
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