Wednesdays are in the middle, so after lunchtime you are past half way through the week. Woohoo!

Mondays always fly by, I barely notice them.

Thursdays are when the excitement for the weekend starts to build, maybe even go for a pre-weekender.

But every week it's there, full of important work stuff and fully aware of making the week unnecessarily long and painful.

Tuesday.

It even sounds like it's giving you other options but it isn't, it's forcing dull bleakness onto everyone. You can't even enjoy a Tuesday night because you tried to put off Tuesday with Monday night. Can't do that again, at least until Thursday.

Fucking Tuesday, no matter how much gets done and how well, there's no joy in it. Just a numb acknowledgement that the time was passed as quickly as possible so we can get closer to Wednesday lunchtime.

Can't wait for Friday, seeing old friends. Good stuff happening at work on Wednesday and Thursday.

Fuck you Tuesday.

People get comfortable, relax their boundaries and behave like children.

Kids who are well behaved outside of the home are just as naughty at home as any others. It's because they feel safe, and for kids that's ok.

Every work place has variations on the issues you describe, depending on the personalities of staff and how management deal with them.

In my experience, the places that have the least drama are where the management are most skilled at dealing with people. Which sounds obvious but there's a great deal of management who don't know how to get staff to work effectively, let alone get on with each other.

Even for non management, there's a lot to discover about this stuff in the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.

Super popping colour! I like your website, your style shows across the different projects. Excellent stuff.

Yeah that's my point really, saying they can't easily watch it is a cop out because it's easy to find ways to make it possible. Which includes facilities and equipment such as in my example, but there's plenty in the US and I'd be surprised if they don't have their own facility they can hire the equipment into.

The thing that got my interest is the terms used themselves. Why say it's an old format, rather than or as well as what the format actually is?

The media used, which I quoted, is not unusual itself but it is unusual to be used for a video format. Cinema film is usually 35 or 70mm gauge, and stereo audio is usually half or quarter inch. One inch is more commonly used for multi-track audio recording.

Maybe that's all there is to it, there being no playback device, but its all rather intriguing, and it feels like there's more they aren't saying.

I demand details, goddamn it!

Well said! I've no idea at all and don't actually do any of this stuff.

I do, however, advocate for the practice and it's ethics and I learn things just by being here, whether that's technical or otherwise.

Thanks to you all.

I had to check -

AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes

This is a terrible excuse, as can be found by a simple web search that shows sites like this, which is a fantastic site btw.

No worries. The M8 is kind of amazing and unique. As a user of trackers I think you'll learn it fast.

The only other thing I can think of is the 1010 Blackbox. It's purely sample based but very capable and very small. Thomann sell it here.

Have fun!

I'm not sure there's much else out there at that size which is as powerful. I'm not a tracker person but every time I've heard the M8 I've been very impressed. It sounds great and it's capable of getting quite close to full productions.

How difficult can it be to bring a project into a DAW? If you're releasing then you'll probably have to anyway at some point, even if it's just as STEMs for mastering.

As for import taxes, have you looked on your government website?

The version 2 is out of stock but you can order it for September, according to their UK website.

What I'm saying is, if it's the kind of box you want, you won't find much that's better. If I was after something like that, I'd go out of my way for it.

Alternatively, Sonicware make the Liven boxes which are sold at Thomann. Sound good, small, fun, maybe not full productions but cost half as much so two could get close.

Or there's the formidable LXR-02. Again, more of groovebox, but mad and lots of fun. This retailer has good info for EU purchase.

Let us know what you get. Good luck and enjoy.

ways of improving the sector's performance.

Hmmm, I'm sure there's a simple solution to this but....no, it's eluding me.

Yes, and global famine is a terrible prospect.

Personally, I'll miss the birds.

Now realise that when you reach 75, on average, you will have been asleep for 25 years.

I have tried to reduce that average but it takes it's toll.

They were brilliant. I ran a Nexus 10 for about 5 years, and about the same from a Nexus 9 my BIL asked me to look at. I forget the ROM but he couldn't believe it kept getting OTA updates for that long.

Those were the days, enjoy your 7!