Good morning all,
wet and surprisingly mild morning, supposed to turn windy and much cooler when it clears in the next couple of hours. Once again I'm under the gun to get my lights up before Thursday, I must thrive on my martyrdom
I was having fun this week with my iTunes collection and playing along with the UMC404HD interface and listening via headphones. I'm getting surprisingly good sound and it seems like I'm hearing it via an amp instead of a DAW. Oh, I forgot to mention something I found out this week. I was purchasing some charger cables at the Apple store this week and as an aside when they asked if there was anything else mentioned that I was having problems with my interface and GarageBand not playing nice together. My rep didn't have hands-on experience in the audio realm but she knew a couple of the guys working there did. She got one to come over and I told him what was happening. He asked if I were using USB or the wall wart to power the interface. That's when the light bulb moment happened. In theory the USB ought to be enough. Well, it sort of is in that it does function, to a point. He suggested trying the wall wart and dang if it didn't make a difference. It isn't huge but it was enough to give a larger amount of headroom. Unfortunately other things interfered the last couple of nights so I'm looking forward to trying it some more.
Listening to Beatles' Home Tapes, something they did on John's 4-track Ampex machine when they came back from India back in 1968. Pretty cool to hear songs that are well known from the White Album before they were immortalized.
Got to do some shopping for supplies for the holiday gathering, along with everybody else in town, I bet.