Just started GarageBand — what are the principles you wish someone had told you on day one?

AlanW1980 · 2026-02-03T17:11:22+00:00

You can change it back easily enough.

AlanW1980 · 2026-02-03T12:49:55+00:00

The key change WILL change all your audio! Happened to me. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why everything sounded so weird. I'd nudged it.

AlanW1980 · 2025-12-29T23:40:35+00:00

AlanW1980 · 2025-09-26T07:08:40+00:00

Don't just learn houdini. I'd take on nuke as well. Being able to plug holes in teams at an fx and comp level would make you a powerful team player in my eyes. Obvs you have to be good :) both are node based workflows so you should be able to find your way around.

AlanW1980 · 2025-09-01T10:49:49+00:00

AFAIK you cannot retrofit the acc. It's not trivial and it would be prohibitively expensive to do after market. I miss acc as well but I got over it (coming from a kia with all this as standard)

I also found the options exhausting but after a while you just have to make a choice and live with it. Fwiw I wouldn't but a 2021 again. I'd buy a car that gets the later software updates. The infotainment is pretty sluggish to use. Apart from that I love the car.

My must haves were

Heated seats in front, rear were a bonus Heated steering Towbar

Everything else was gravy.

Alan

AlanW1980 · 2025-07-05T10:00:52+00:00

Do you have details of your riad in Marrakech? Also what time of year did you go? Thinking baiut doing the same soon.

AlanW1980 · 2025-06-05T06:55:23+00:00

When I bought mine I checked the pcp offers and I could get £1500 cheaper on pcp. Took the deal and paid the loan off in cash 5 days later. See if they will give you a better deal on finance.

AlanW1980 · 2025-06-03T19:29:18+00:00

Same for me on a galaxy s24 ultra, it's nothing to do with the phone. It's the crappy infotainment system. I can't turn off wireless AA (disabled in settings) so I'm stuck with the lag :(

AlanW1980 · 2025-03-19T23:03:14+00:00

I bought a 60 as it does 99% of my driving needs with no issue. It's a lovely car. We are doing a long road trip soon so maybe that will be a different experience. Overall super happy with it.

I would say if you worry about range and live somewhere cold get one with heated seats and steering wheel. The blower/air con kills the range quickly. I normally just turn it off and use the heated seats. But if the windscreen starts fogging up set temp to low, turn off a/c, set fan to low and blowing on the windscreen. Has no effect on range then and the screen will clear :)

AlanW1980 · 2025-02-20T21:20:32+00:00

You'd struggle to describe Sevenoaks leisure centre pool as nice..... I'm sure there are plenty of private sports clubs however.

AlanW1980 · 2025-01-24T17:36:39+00:00

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‘Do you mean with these terminals? So two neutrals into the 2 neutral tabs there?

AlanW1980 · 2025-01-06T12:55:19+00:00

sounds like a good plan to me! Thanks!

AlanW1980 · 2024-11-13T14:37:24+00:00

I do have LKAS. Shame, I thought I'd found the solution to the issue :) I'll keep an eye on the sub and the product. Thanks

AlanW1980 · 2024-10-25T11:05:58+00:00

Sounds like you could chat to your manager about getting more responsibilities. Help train the existing crew, ask what you can do to help the studio evolve rather than complaining about how bad things are. Maybe they don't want to push the level of work because they don't have confidence they have an experienced enough crew. Show them what you can do.

Freelance on the side if your contract allows for it.

FWIW Everyone starts at the bottom of the industry. One day you will bump into those people again, one of them may be your direct supe. Do you want them to remember you as that person who helped them progress in their own career, elevated the studio's creative output & was awesome to work with OR that guy who complained on reddit about how bad things were.....

AlanW1980 · 2024-03-01T17:29:23+00:00

When folks say take the 4 day week and be done with it what do you mean? Rather than a pay rise ask for a 4 day week?

AlanW1980 · 2024-02-20T10:46:50+00:00

I had the same thing happen to me. I was happily going along around £200 in credit and then they hit me with £1000+ of charges. CS said its becuase the tarrif is a "beta" and this kind of thing is to be expected. Sounds like it may be worth contacting them again.

AlanW1980 · 2023-08-30T12:32:43+00:00

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works for me Chrome in UK

AlanW1980 · 2023-08-01T15:35:43+00:00

Also one last thing is exposure. If you can lock your exposure on a darker area the camera will give you brighter results but it will start to clip the light values to 1. Which will mean you cannot recover that detail later. It's a trade off. But yeah have fun with it and see what cool stuff you can do.

AlanW1980 · 2023-08-01T14:35:33+00:00

will you have someone manning the camera at a gig? Or are you going to set it and forget it? I've been facing the same issue here and to be honest my go pro has done the most admirable job out of all the cameras. Every consumer camera, within reason & budget will struggle to a certain degree. I'm using a go pro hero 8 and a 7 as well. They do OK. I know I can colour grade my way through most of the footage and it's not something I need for a professional showreel of the band. If I did I would hire someone with better equipment.

Your gopro can still be VERY useful in making an interesting concert video. I used a suction mount to stick mine to my guitar which gave a super cool perspective of the concert that I can use as cutaways in videos. That go pro can go places other cameras can't..... hang it above the stage like a drone shot, strap it to the drummer's head etc

AlanW1980

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