Still working out some small kinks in my studio set up, but at least they are simpler issues. Today I was swapping my monitoring between my main monitors and my nearfield monitors. I spent an age trying to work out why I had no sound coming from my nearfields. I have 3 patch bays (2 balanced, 1 unbalanced, plus my interface routing matrix and any additional routing within my DAW. Phew! No wonder.

The long and the short of it is that I eventually found the culprit setting…. Now I just need to work out the correct routing!

So much choice is available within such flexible systems that the huge number of options can obscure the problem. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the flexibility but I just wish the software part of the equation made it easier to locate any problems. It could be something as simple as signal loopbacks. Software could then indicate how far that signal gets in the signal chain, including derivative signals (post effect or processing unit).

Fun and games.

It’s good to be back in amongst it.