As part of a series of on-site visits I made to a Pro Tools studio in South London, UK, I helped resolve why my client wasn’t able to connect his Aphex Aural Exciter rack unit as an insert effect on a channel of his Soundcraft… Read More »Creating Custom Patch Leads for an Aphex Aural Exciter Rack Unit
This was a bug with Pro Tools/Waves that I found and solved as part of a much bigger project involving rebuilding a wiped Mac Pro for a studio in South London. One of the things I needed to do for that job was to redownload… Read More »Waves Central v10 Plugins Not Showing in Pro Tools – Solved
This is an article about the difficult process Paul from Audio Support faced when trying to save a 2010 Mac Pro with a corrupted hard disk. In August 2023 I was contacted by Aaron Harry at Basstone Studios in Clapham, South London. He was having… Read More »Restoring a 2010 Mac Pro
Connected with a composer client in Sussex, England who was having problems with his Pro Tools session files crashing when opening on his M1 Mac. The projects would open but then the program would freeze and need to be force-quit. This seemed to be at… Read More »Pro Tools Crashing on Load
Connected remotely to a client in Spain who was setting up a Pro Tools rig for mastering. He was using four 16 Pro Tools HDX cards in the PCI slots of his Mac connecting to various hardware compressors, EQs and bus processors via an Apogee… Read More »Configuring an Apogee Symphony, Eventide H900 and Pro Tools HDX system
Connected remotely with a client in the Channel Islands using hardware synths in his studio. Started by discussing his setup and looking at how everything is currently connected around Pro Tools and Ableton Live in his studio. He explained to me that although the setup… Read More »Issues with MIDI timing in a studio using external hardware synths