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I went out the other day to buy cherries and a microphone. Bought a Bing. Bought a Boom.

You know it's not going to be a good weekend when you start off sitting on a pair of HD280 headphones and snapping the head band just above where it connects to the ear piece. Now i'll just have to see how long superglue and gaffer tape last.

We get frequent queries asking about the best headphones for tracking. Perhaps we should start recommending THESE!

A long shot but I thought I'd ask...do we have any members in Hawaii, on the Big Island to be precise? I have a friend from Arizona who is doing some gigs there, starting at the Kalani Resort on 13 January. Baggage restrictions (and fear of damage in the hold) mean that she's wondering if...

Finally, a good explanation why my personality is suited to doing live sound:

I recently put together a video for a friend in Arizona. The shooting was done by seven different people on 3 continents (with gear ranging from an iPhone to some really good HD cameras) so the quality can be a bit variable...and the music is definitely a different style to what most people on...

In late October, I'm going to have need of a basic effects/reverb unit to provide an effect on a live theatre show I'm doing. I can't believe I'm saying this but it doesn't have to sound good, just be cheap. Something like an Alesis Nanoverb would be ideal for example. FYI, this is me being...

...and can you mix then export a mix staying in 32 bit FP? I have a friend who's a very talented singer songwriter who mixes all her own stuff in Logic Pro. However, she contacted me saying that her last couple of mixes had got too loud and were clipping. If this happened to me in Audition...

Mac users may wish to read THIS from Native Instruments before considering an upgrade. Although this article applies specifically to Native Instruments, I've heard of similar problems with a number of DAWs with faults such as plug ins no longer working properly. You have been warned!

I was thinking (always a bad idea) last night and realised I haven't seen or heard anything from Moresound (otherwise known as Henry) in a long while. Anybody heard from him? Hope he's okay.

I'm wondering if any of you have experience of doing live video streaming of some of your performances (for money)? A friend in the USA has started doing a bit of this with moderate success using a company called "Concert Window". She's now done two live performances from her home and is...

I'll just drop this here for all the bass players (and baseball players)...

I'm a bit of an addict of the BBC World Service radio...and today they had an excellent documentary on their "The Inquiry" series entitled "Is Streaming Good For Music". I found listening to it was 25 minutes well spent...you can listen online HERE. Executive summary for the TL:DR brigade...

In case anyone missed it, I had an email the other day advising the version 9.2 of Ableton Live 9 Lite is now available for download at the Ableton site. I haven't had much chance to play but their site lists changes here: https://www.ableton.com/en/help/article/live-9-release-notes/

On an episode of Big Bang Theory that aired down here on Monday evening, Wil Wheaton was doing a podcast interviewing Penny. The interface he used was an M Audio M Track. Well, I say...if it's good enough for Wil Wheaton...then I better start looking to replace mine. I'm not a know-it-all...

Having retired from a career doing TV audio, I have to say I'm very concerned about the fall in standards in the TV/Film audio community these days. Take this cringe-worthy Australian ad for a supermarket chain: Use a Neumann? Really? In my day an audio professional would have insisted on...

Here's an interesting acoustic guitar recording technique for you!

We watched the film "Begin Again" last night. If you haven't seen it, you really should. It'll show you how easy it is to record a hit album using just a couple of mics and a laptop. I must say, the acoustics on the rooftop are quite outstanding! And why bother with a mic stand when you can...

Not exactly recording but I know some of you have to do playback in live sound situations like I do... ...and to that end I'll mention a lovely little app for the iPhone that I've discovered called "Play Fade Pause". It's dirt cheap and does about 80% of what things like Qlab and SCS do on...

Newbies frequently ask what they should buy to give their recording the "professional" sound. Obviously, pros have kept this a secret so they can go on earning the big bugs but, in the spirit of Wikileaks, I think it's time the secret was revealed. Here's the chief weapon in every professional...