Keeping it clean

Want a clean recording? Start with a clean room. I’m not joking!

It’s not fun to to wade through a mess of cables searching for lost guitar pics, adapters, notebooks or (occasionally) missing musicians. Keep your cables running neatly together. One caveat: make sure power cables don’t run along parallel to audio cables! Run power and audio cables perpendicular when possible to avoid getting hum from the AC into your audio.

I don’t want to sound like a nagging parent telling you to clean your room. I’m just saying I’ve had my share of headaches because of messy cabling situations. Most of these could have been avoided by being more neat and organized. -mc