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I would say Festool is a brilliant system, but different manufacturers can make better tools for certain jobs. Mafell’s jigsaw is excellent, Metabo for grinders etc, Hilti SDS plus and Max.

Festool domino system I hear is probably the best, but that is rather specialized.

It’s probably Ryobi’s No 1 advantage, particularly as a lot of stores seem to stock a lot of the range (at least here in Europe).

Makita also has a large range but I usually have to order the less popular stuff but when I get it, it’s usually worth it.

And Mafell can be better than festool. Though different manufacturers tend to have different advantages.

Hilti makes some very large tools that if needed Festool does not have alternative. I have also seen a comparably priced Hilti drill/driver give up where a Makita kept going.

Have you tried Paperless NGX?

Ditch the Aggregate devices for a start ( yes it’s expensive running a lot of inputs or outputs on a proper system, and you don’t take advantage of all the interfaces built into gear). Uninstall Blackhole and spend the money on Rogue Amoeba stuff.

Buy audio interfaces with good drivers (e.g. RME, Lynx, Metric Halo or even MOTU AVB stuff and stay away from Antelope - they have problems), install, plugin and away you go.

I don’t think it was that hard. I remember them being around all the time, but maybe it was a European thing with them being readily available here.

You drive 800km without taking a break? With a family?

Last time I took my Taycan for a long drive (6 hours in -15C) we took a break half way, and it charged so much faster than expected - so I had to exit the restaurant and go and move it.

It’s the best family car I've ever had, much better than all the BMWs but yeah, it is expensive although the running costs are low.

Rotor == brake disc

They had decent bandwidth internally allowing them to playback uncompressed realtime standard definition video which normal PCs running Windows couldn’t do at the time.

“four quarters, ten dimes, twenty nickels, one hundred pennies, five dimes and ten nickels are all equal to the same amount” - only a human could come up with something so unintuitive.

Canon has a good share of the market but not to the extent that you are suggesting. Sony is massive particularly for semipro influencers, Panasonic some share, Nikon very little.

Source: Managing 150PB+ of customers video content.

I completely agree.

Having moved to Sweden and from the '.' to the ',' what is even more confusing is then the thousand separator is switched around. Add to the confusion where a banking interface sometimes itself switches between the two and is not consistent what am I transferring.

But the thing that really got me was in Sweden my 9 year old wasn't even using the comma separator in his maths book it was the dot operator `·`. How confused was I that a 9 year old was working with dot products.

What I used to do was swap machines over from the one with failing disks to a live spare (slave in the old frowned upon terminology), do the maintenance and then replicate from the now live spare back if I had confidence it was all good.

Yes it’s costly having the hardware to do that as it mostly meant multiple machines as I always wanted to be able to rebuild one whilst having at least two machines online.

Couldn’t agree more. What a huge amount of tech and complexity just to get something off the ground

I try to buy whichever is considered the best at the time and consider a TV to be a 2000Euro upwards purchase. But every TV needs the settings tweaked and a lot of its processing turned off. The quickest way to get there is to start with the tweaks others have done from video forums. Get to that to a reference point.

Then buy a good source like an Apple TV for streaming, a BluRay HD if you like disks or a OSMC Vero to run kodi. They should require very little changes or setup.

I think the audio is more challenging.

I suggest you write a file system, then write a database and then re-evaluate whether you still think the same way.

Not true. Standard staple in my oarents house was coffee cake made from coffee with walnuts.

That really sucks. Sounds like the ventilation system is poorly designed.

I wish that all modern buildings had properly sized FTX / air handling units. These exchange the old air with new air using the heat from the old to warm up the new air and at the same time can have HEPA filters for cleaning the air.

Not really. I’ve been around music tech before and after that point. I would say the explosion was cheaper and more accessible music making equipment whether that was on a computer, cheaper hardware or the secondhand market.

Would be great if we could somehow use this mechanism to kill ticks as well.

Growing up on a farm 30 years ago - we wouldn't have to wait a day or two. You would start fixing the problem straight away, worse case being someone would have to drive to get a part and then you would install it.

And many parts you could fix yourself with a well stocked workshop (think welding gear, cutting equipment, stuff to work on hydraulics, lots of random crap, spare bits of metal and a large space or in the field).

Then came the computers...

It actually is quite a good price. Not that I would actually buy it, I would go Mini PC and OPNSense for a router.

Tunnels and bridges are used in the UK. And those tunnels are horrible.

They do that in Sweden all the time. I have no idea how a country that has some amazing minds can come up with the worst road infrastructure designs possible. Most of it’s unsafe so they just lower the speed limit.

Basic song writing is a good place to start (and should cover the dynamics/loudness of notes and sounds as per the parent post to introduce groove). Then combine with sound engineering.

There is a lot of resources all over the web, and tutors and courses that you can do.

If you want to start off with an easy introduction then maybe Oscar @ Underdog can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJz4-YZdio&t=8s

If you want to product Psytrance - then you are lucky because IMHO it's perhaps the easiest most formulaic genre.

How did I miss this? Thought I had seen all the YouTube videos on Superbooth! And you shouldn’t think you have to make excuses for the presentation - it was great, your sense of enthusiasm for it really came across as well as what it’s capable of and why you are doing it. Fantastic stuff.

Now I will be spending the day working out whether this is something I need in my studio ( the price puts it into a category where I really want to make sure it is something I will be using rather than buying it because I think its cool).

Why? I feel the more “accessible” 8 track products are usually good enough these days and it isn’t the aim of them to go up against 8 channels of Prism/weiss/Burl or whatever. And those high end convertors are often used in places where everything is at least very good to among the best (whatever that means), including the room and the operator(s) of the equipment.

Most of the rest of the chain would be a weaker link to producing a track including the person writing it, than some of the modern mutlitrack recorders.

I would focus instead on usability.

The MG614 was something I really wanted when I was younger ( when i wasn’t dreaming about 2 inch tape and an SSL)

BTW the MT8X was actually an 8 track on standard cassettes, same as the Tascam 488 and a couple of others I believe.

There was also a lot of crap gear that came out in the 80s and 90s.

That looks like a really interesting device, are you involved with the design?

One thing I used to really love with the early four and later eight tracks, was they had a mini mixing desk in them, and you could do things with them such as taking a line out and putting it into another channel, through some effects or playing the faders.

Except it did provide it in a pro studio session. They could drop in and out, overdub and cut and splice tape if they wanted.

But your original point of not having an undo being liberating is IMHO correct.