From the course: Troubleshooting Audio and MIDI
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Best practices for successful troubleshooting
From the course: Troubleshooting Audio and MIDI
Best practices for successful troubleshooting
- Things will go wrong. It's good to make peace with the idea that a perfect performance, a flawless session, a fail-proof setup pretty much doesn't exist. The technical element is prone to malfunction. The human element is prone to stress and distraction. This is not an invitation to throw up your hands. Quite the opposite. The wise thing to do is to develop a series of good habits and healthy practices that will increase your chances of pinpointing trouble spots and implementing solutions quickly and effectively when problems do come up, and some of these habits might even ensure things go wrong less often. Let's start with documentation. Few people have total recall, and notes, descriptions, and manuals to your future self prove invaluable again and again. Did you figure out a new way to route things? Write it down, even if it seems obvious to you now. Is a piece of gear having a problem? How did you fix it? Describe the details for future reference. Use paper, use computer…
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