AFTER a session with one of my online guitar students I get busy prepping the audio maters for the vinyl pressing plant.

The software – from HOFA – I’ve used in the past is now out dated. There’s meant to be an upgrade cost but when I launch the updater everything happens automatically, smoothly…and it’s free!

I get the audio and documentation files all sorted then plan to start a video edit on one of the song from BluesAlive in Czech past November.

Final Cut seems to be having a problem launching and it takes me a good hour of farting about to get things running. Something to do with the ‘validating audio units’ during the startup process.

I go back to the house for a coffee and then into the office to set up the new hydroponic system which, alas, is too big for the kitchen.

My plan is to use the new, bigger unit for herbs and veg (basil, coriander, chillis and micro tomatoes) that will stay in the hydroponic…and the smaller one for starting things off that will eventually transfer to pots – tomatillos, squash etc.

My afternoon guitar students arrives with her mum and we have a good session then I get back to the video and wrestling with the computer.

I get a song finished and set it to process while I go out for a walk and listen to the audio files for the vinyl plant to make sure they’re OK and the spacing between tracks is correct.

When I get home, though, the video processor has crashed and I’m running out of time before I need to go live for this week’s 8pm Wildcats’ livestream on Facebook.

A further stream of technical hassles means I have to go live using my phone.

After the livestream I mess about to try and sort things out and restart the audio interface which somehow seems to have been at the root of some of the problems…