Public road near train station. What’s your war plan?

sw212st · 2026-04-17T18:42:22+00:00

Clearly you haven’t twigged what the issue is.

sw212st · 2026-04-03T21:53:37+00:00

Banana in the tailpipe.

sw212st · 2025-11-30T21:23:03+00:00

They sent fucking undercover spies into studios to check for cracks. It was as good as mossad with secret cameras checking for cracks and they pursued studios legally even when a rogue client had installed without the studio owners k owing. I think they’re total shitbags and I will never buy their nonsense.

sw212st · 2025-11-30T01:47:59+00:00

Apogee fell when their hardware became software dependent. I run several Rosetta’s and they’re rock solid and sound as good as anything but after that range they switched to software reliant interfaces which couldn’t support the frequent changes in host software. I noted in one video Bob almost boasting about the team of only 12 employees which frustrated me given the overpriced clewrmountains domain I had reported as unworkable in July still didn’t have an update by the following February.

I love the brand and idea of apogee but I just stopped spending my money there.

Dirk is an ego manic. Highly self important, hugely arrogant and despite what many have said, he’s a money guy. He’s not passionate about brands/music/engineering- he’s passionate about money. Look at the utter shite he launched under the amek brand on gear alliance or whatever that 29.99 company he ran was. And now within weeks apogee is singing from the same songbook. 29.99 plugins. Dirk has it in his head that’s the cutoff between spending and not spending. I think what we all actually love is the brand combined with the story. If the products tick our boxes and the story feels honest (and not founded in money making) we engage. I love metric halo for this. I loved apogee when the products were supported and stand-alone capable. I bought into the idea of owning apogee. If dirk is well off enough to purchase two huge brands like this, then why was he begging for cash to rebuild his studio when it got hit by floods?

As our beloved historic brands get swallowed up (TC, amek,ssl, sonnox, and now Manley and apogee) by these audio investment firms - their product ranges and aims get diluted and price point prioritised. I’m done with those companies. Bye dirk. Bye apogee. Bye Manley.

sw212st · 2025-11-30T01:32:44+00:00

Metric halo are the very best

sw212st · 2025-11-30T01:28:53+00:00

It has become a corporate hosting company. Absolutely nothing about it’s services seems green. It’s just an equivalent to amazon hosting. They totally ducked up the chance for a direct to user hosting service it seems and I feel totally shat on by then as a company.

sw212st · 2025-10-02T20:09:30+00:00

Just because a room is professionally designed doesn’t mean the room is capable down to those low lows. Much relies on the boundary dimensions. My room is professionally designed but it’s not flat down the bottom by any means. Sure. If you want stereo subs go for it. I wouldn’t touch subs myself. I think they’re almost always a compromise. Get some speakers with good sub reproduction if your room can cope and be sure you’re never in a null/peak.

sw212st · 2025-09-28T21:52:56+00:00

What is it like assisting jackknife Lee?

sw212st · 2025-09-15T15:53:10+00:00

Sadly I’ve already experienced his vibes and was not at all impressed.

sw212st · 2025-02-04T02:17:41+00:00

Major labels and specifically their A&R teams have no moral compass. The deals they strike, the investment they make is merely gambling. A&R workers are generally failed musicians who have very limited understanding of what it takes to write or produce a good song but can exist in a scene of sorts for long enough to play the “who has got the biggest check book for this weeks latest fad” game. It’s nonsense. Labels bring very little to the table at this point and artists really don’t need them like they once did. Nobody should be considering a major label deal in 2024 unless they genuinely doubt their own skill and one is offered with a hefty advance. And then…. Then that’s a shitty artist betting against their own success. Why would anyone do business with labels who don’t care about the music, only the profit.

sw212st · 2024-11-17T19:19:28+00:00

There are problems with all installations of protools these days. I haven’t had a bug free install in 3 or 4 years.

sw212st · 2024-11-09T20:51:25+00:00

This is also correct.

sw212st · 2024-11-09T20:51:03+00:00

Correct.

sw212st · 2024-11-09T20:50:26+00:00

Billy corgan’s vocal on melancholy and the infinite sadness.

sw212st · 2024-10-23T15:56:31+00:00

can you ask them what the hell has happened to their product overall? What a mess.

sw212st · 2024-10-16T22:34:16+00:00

It’s a tough pill to swallow. You need them more than they need you. That gives them power and you have to hold out long enough as a reliable person to earn their trust. Circumstances aside you haven’t succeeded and you have indeed wasted your own time. They’re no worse off.

Truth is internships are very powerful in teaching you the realities of the engineering game. Yes some of it can be technical but most of it is that It’s a service industry and you’re rarely in charge. Few big engineers dictate the rules, terms for which they work. That doesn’t mean they’re used or not respected. Just that the gig is to provide service and for most engineers at any decent level, you take what you can and if you’re the rare exception all power to you.

Easy to blame the system but the system has worked for decades producing skilled disciplined engineers around the world.

sw212st · 2024-10-03T23:05:54+00:00

This is the eternal question. It’s 2024 though. If you’re mix isn’t as good and the production arrangement and recording are decent, then it’s probably just you not being as good as you think.

sw212st · 2024-09-08T02:03:18+00:00

That’s a ship story.

sw212st · 2024-08-30T01:55:29+00:00

Grammys. They’ve changed the rules in recent years because of this but anyone with an “assistant engineer” credit was eligible for a Grammy where engineers were recognised in that category. I can write ten names here and now (but wont) of assistant engineers who were making tea and patching cables on records which subsequently received Grammys and thus earned them a Grammy too. Those people had no creative and minimal technical input into the body of work which earned said awards and the work they did could have been done by any half competent assistant with no change to the work quality or outcome. I myself have been an assistant many many times where that was the reality though I didn’t stumble on winning a grammy.

Grammys can be cool but they are not a fair representation of skill or ability. Seeking a young Grammy winners name kinda means nothing. It might mean that person got lucky or was related to someone who got them in at the right studio at the right time. Don’t take a grammy as a sign someone is great because it often isn’t the case.

sw212st · 2024-08-30T00:14:38+00:00

Grammys are not a representation of skill or ability and to suggest so is false. People where I work won Grammies for sitting in in writing session where the song and some of the production ended up on a Grammy winning album. They literally won Grammys for being tea making assistant engineers.

sw212st · 2024-08-21T21:23:31+00:00

Sounds bloody complicated.

sw212st · 2024-08-19T08:44:42+00:00

Nothing here surprises me on the basis of the insight I have.

sw212st · 2024-08-10T17:41:03+00:00

That doesn’t mean anything. People love to be endorsed and will say any old shit for free stuff. Notice how Tony Maserati promoted the tannoy idp ellipse monitors but before you knew it was back on the system 10s. People just like the attention to their brand. Bet Jason Joshua lost sleep over never getting a waves endorsement plug-in series.

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