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I'm intrigued if this video I made makes sense and perhaps is the same, in the US. I got really cross seeing how our local town councillors behave now their meetings are streamed. I made this video and got loads of private messages from other councillors, and members of the public who felt they...

I found a link today, and it pointed to John Miles - who's no longer with us. When I was first starting out his touring show was one of the first I worked on, and I wished I'd worked on more in my later years when I knew much more. Nobody ever had a bad thing to say about him and despite playing...

I've looked at the schematics but his fault seems to make little sense. Meters work fine on input monitoring, but sync or replay produces zero output on the meters - the actual function works fine, but the meters just zero when you switch from input? I've not found anyone mention this as a...

A fella I bought an old imac from a couple of years back asked if I was interested in a Mac Pro+. Sitting around in his workshop. A few scratches on the case, but 6 core processor and 32Gb of RAM, running the latest mac OS - £320? I said yes pretty much without thinking. It's something he bought...

We don't really have a section for recording business, although maybe permissions is a 'technique'. I was looking forward to being able to record a rather nice choir. The promoter is an old friend (actually my school headmistress) who likes to promote traditional music to new listeners. She'd...

I've got loads of XLR cables - but for something coming up I needed some longer ones. In my store I knew I had a couple of drums of mic cable - been there a while, so I thought I'd get the tools out and make 20m cables up - as in 10. Checked the connector box and yes, 10 Males and 10 Females...

This is a cracking version - production and mastering, everything.

I've deliberately put this here because it's a sore topic, and even talking about digital within earshot of the analogue folk causes issues. I was in trouble recently because my reel to reels didn't perform too well - so I had this idea. Take some non-commercial music. All recorded by me in...

In around 1980 - Anglia TV here in the UK were getting rid of some kit and we were able to buy some of it. I was really doing radio mic stuff back then, but managed to get the one bit of kit I wanted to show you - a Vinten Dolphin jib - a small camera crane that is 100% not lightweight and...

In aniother topic we were considering what popular platforms do to music. Most of my music is quiet and lacking dynamics, but I did this cover last year and it's got louder bits and quiet bits. spotify link Youtube link They are from the same source - a 48K wav file from Ditto - who I use for...

I got out my reel to reels and tried connecting mics to them direct. Didn't work as well as I thought. Bothe the Tascam and Revox have mic inputs but they both did not like the usual mics I tried - strangely they were both much happier with an ancient high impedance Shure? I made a video, and...

I thought I'd do a little video about how the US and the UK mic up the very important people - the ones always on TV in the good and bad times. I think it was brought about by the AKG D222 I destroyed recently - which incidentally is now scrap. I was quite pleased with the rebuild, but clearly...

Read and laugh in the U.K. all our equipment mains power plugs have fuses, 2,3,5 and 13 amp ones. A packet of 4 are around a pound. The idea is that you select an appropriate value for the item being protected. It’s annoying with IEC cables because the three amp one looks the same as the 13, so...

On British TV at the moment is an Prostate Cancer advert for men - if you're over 50, and have not had a PSA test, go to your doctor and ask for one. Our National Heath Service is free, so you can just have a free Government sponsored test. I thought, why not - just a blood test. Didn't expect...

My fibre connection here is pretty good. Speedtest says 780 download and 910 upload - so that's not bad. I just bought a Native Instrument UVI package and am watching it trickle in. Now I appreciate I'm in the UK and the server is probably the US, but file downloads are not remotely speedy. Why...

I've quite a few nice old mics and today got out the AKG D222 to use and I wondered if it could do with a clean. So I looked for the way in, and there was a suspicious joint in the body, so I twisted. Nothing happened, I twisted again, but harder and the entire body shattered. Not metal but a...

While I've been marooned over christmas, I've been planning some of the projects coming up and while doing it have a few unusual mics to add to my collection - and do some videos about. I have a little list of things to watch out for , and even keep an eye on hire company clear outs. A few...

The speakers in my audio studio are really old but still good Celestion DL8's - I was working in a hifi store in the 80/90s and tried loads and bought them. I know them well. In my other studio, I've got RCF 5" ones - which are great for speech upwards but have nothing much below 60Hz - I've...

I'm not sure if these guys are for real or not. Maybe it's american humour - or just they're very, very strange people. Apparently running your audio cables on the floor is the kiss of death?

crazy listing I'm assuming this is one of those money laundering ebay adds, or at least I hope it is!