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Apple computers do tend to have generic drivers for most devices but all clever stuff needs drivers. Do a search for Mac drivers for any music product and the well known names pop up. The universal driver for audio usually works but latency values are normally poor.

uncompressed is always better than mp3 or other compressed formats - If you export from adobe in the formats people have mentioned, reaper will be able to open it in the uncompressed format - which will also hopefully load in some of the cleverer stuff as well. In practical terms, I might just...

Won't hurt to stay, but I'm with multiple aggregators now. The best ones for generating me money are songtradr and sounddrop - on purely tracks vs payment, soundrop is the winner, so now I treat them as the one to be very careful with, others like record union get my releases that could...

Clients who ‘know’ would get it. However, clients who only see money, will equate ANY phone with cheap. Swap the phone for a MacBook and that would get over that, and genuinely be a more useful backup.

Well, yes. However, they need good studio acoustics. As nearfields the room is perhaps not quite so important, hence why they sell a left and a right, so they mirror image properly.

Welcome to how audio works. What is ‘real’? Have you not noticed that the same sound, is different when you move location. Your guitar played outside, sounds different from in your bathroom, and different from in your car? Acoustics works quite strangely. Outside, the sound from your guitar...

I have some Adam monitors. I couldn’t quite justify two grand on a pair, for what I’m using them for. I bought mine because the 77 twins my friend put in the studio I built for him had a good experience. I still have a pair of very elderly 8” celestions in my other studio. The Adams sounded very...

No point continuing we do not know anything. I cannot convince you and that’s fine. If I was sitting in the audition room and that’s something I hate, my spider senses would be tingling. I will leave you to it! It’s the greystones kids band again.

Wobbly is a perhaps British description of a singer with excessive vibrato, that is frequently unable to be controlled, unless the person has been trained properly to master it. As I mentioned, I have for many years now worked with skilled and trained singers and that particular piece I first...

I like that - and will cheerfully keep an ear out for more. Oddly, I didn't pick up Pink Floyd, but something I have heard tugs at my brain. That's good I think.

Here is the isolated mic - does that sound like the room we can see? Magic mic? She has a rather wobbly voice but some notes are realistically flat but others, like the high one are extremely precise. Also watch for the plosives, especially T sounds the mic captures, they don't all match the...

It does, if, and it is a big if - that is a real recording? I work with lots of musical theatre performers, and am quite familiar with that piece and I do not know any who could deliver that song without their breathing being really quite extreme in the loud section. No big intakes of breath, no...

I genuinely cannot say. 2" fibreglass is only effective on higher frequencies, rockwool is better and a bit more predictable, but if your problem is in the 4K and lower area, thin panels can be quite pointless. Bass traps, membrane absorbers and other treatment all fix problems - but different...

You just need to assess the space and treat only what needs treating. With the 45 degree angles, there can often be strange 'focussing' happening that is head position specific. If this happens, you treat it. same with badly behaving bass - identify and treat.

I now have two Behringer 1820s - and absolutely do not find them plasticky sounding, hence why I bought the same one for my two studios. The mic preamps are less noisy than my old Presonus and Tascam units. That said, the cheap 30 quid chinese 2 channel one would not give itself away in a shoot...

I suppose perhaps you should look at it differently? Unless you intend to offer cleanup as a business, digitising your collection is a one-off. Anything you spend becomes obsolete when the job is done.

Never, ever had phantom power damage any mic - condensers, dynamics or ribbons. Mics are designed to cope with this sort of thing, All those tales of doom and gloom have no real substance.

I think I might have shared this a few weeks ago? Needs polish but I like the style of the voice. Your Song

I took the track, plonked it into cubase and the duplicated it. It was a two minute job to align them so they play perfectly together, but with one slipped in time. I've never 'accidentally' managed to do that with a live drummer, ever. The brass stabs, the drums and the piano all appear to be...

Facebook serves me up new groups that are jaw dropping in their content and the membership 100% unshakable. It’s mutual backslapping and I’m sure some people are just taking the pizz. They just believe everything that’s said Luke the emperor’s new clothes!