This afternoon was a bit patchy, in that I was helping a friend plug up a patch bay unit in his music room. He has a rackmount Focusrite interface but most of the inputs are round the back and so inaccessible where he has it installed. Fortunately, he also has an old patch bay unit and lots of suitable cables so we got things connected, tested and installed.

For now, we’ve only set up eight channels out of, I think, a potential sixteen, but that will be enough to get going and we’ve also set up his DAW with a template that takes the input of each channel to a separate mono track. So, next time I’m round there for a jam with him and others we can produce a full multitrack recording to build on.