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Nick Standing AKA Jabun: Multi-instrumentalist, Composer & Mastering Specialist at JabunAudio making dynamic, clean and punchy masters to encourage people to turn up your music, rather than turn it down! Creator of the Skapunk project Better Than The Book
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Some amazing and some super sucky news: Got a house, moving studios, broken computer and all projects suspended indefinitely.

Posted by Jabun - October 1st, 2024

October 2024 Patreon & News Post: Some amazing and some super sucky news: Got a house, moving studios, broken computer and all projects suspended indefinitely... + more videos and more!


Hi everyone and what a mixed month it's been over here... Some HUGE big news of both the super good and the super bad variety this time and it's probably best just to start off with that...


THE GOOD NEWS: Eva and I finally got our own house! We've only been in for just over a week now so things are still spread out everywhere and it's a bit of a mess but it's great to finally have our own space and it's just about starting to feel homely now! This also means I'm finally moving to my very own (non-rented) studio space which'll hopefully be the home for JabunAudio for a LOOONG time to come (and it's slightly bigger than the last place too)! It's exciting as it is nerve racking, but with no limits to what I'm allowed to do, I'll be taking the time to create the most ideal studio workspace as I possibly can which I'm sure is going to take a while, but more on that as we get to...


THE BAD NEWS: I knew there was going to be some disruption moving studios as there always is, but not as bad as this... Firstly the smaller(ish) bad news: the studio room which I'll be moving into isn't quite ideal and needs some additional work on top of the usual acoustic panelling which'll require some extensive planning, time and investment to sort out, but should hopefully be manageable. eventually. Along with that we're currently living on the edge of a building site so things are a bit noisy at the moment and probably will be for some time too... It was to be expected, but it's still a bit of a buzzkill for any acoustic recording for a few months at least.


Finally though, and here's the really REALLY BAD news, after moving, I set up my trusty audio production computer for the last 7-8 years, and... it won't boot up... Startup recovery? Nope! System restore? Nope! Boot up in Safe Mode? NOOOPE! I was hoping at least to be able to get along with promo-work, basic client consultation and editing work, making videos and artwork and prepping these 2 album releases while the acoustic side of the studio needed sorting, but NOPE! It's all grounded... apart from basic social media and email work (on the Chromebook I'm typing this up on), I can't do any computer work anymore!


I'll be making some calls later this week to see if things are salvageable which I should know by the end of the week, but unfortunately at the moment, it's looking like the BEST case scenario is a hard reset on the PC, and starting back from square one... 8 years of crafting a specialised software environment for making music and I'll have to rebuild from scratch... Luckily, I backed up everything before the move and the master WAVs for the next 3 Jabun Records releases are complete and backed up, but while all files are preserved and there's a record of all the software etc... setting up the software environment again including installing all the software, plug-ins, bridging software for back compatibility, licencing etc... is going to be a massive task (if even 100% possibly) and I'm hoping it's not going to cost an arm and a leg too. On top of all this, there's over 70 minutes of unfinished Jabun projects which I don't have access to anymore, and there's also no guarantee that they'll be fully recoverable (error free) even if I do manage to set up the software environments again. It's a real headache I did not want to have to deal with, and if things go the way I think they will, I think it's gonna be a long time to fully recover from this... I've still not had a chance to check the rest of my equipment yet, but I know at least my MPC and grooveboxes still work so maybe I'll have to go DAWless for a while? That'd be an interesting challenge.


Moving on to some more bad news, with the situation above, and not having (useful) access to many files or being able to do any media work, I'm having to put a hold on all music releases for the foreseeable future, including Better Than The Book's "Side Character In My Own Life", and Jabun's "Nephology". I simply don't have the means to release them at the moment, or promote them effectively. I'll keep you posted with any updates on this as and when but it's gonna be a case of taking each day at a time for the moment.


Onto some better news, I did manage to finish all the artwork for Jabun's Nephology project before the move and if you're a $10 Patron (and in place of any music rewards this month), you have a download of all the artwork, including the main album cover, the alternative cover (for the matching Jabun catalog) and the isolated photo used for the cover too to look forward to! I hope you enjoy it while you wait for the album to finally drop (as soon as I can)!

Finally this month, I managed to keep up with the 2 videos a week YouTube stream despite the disruptions! Check out the playlist below:



https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm


And here's a list of the latest additions:


  • KORG Volca Modular Techno Groove Box Patch
  • KORG Volca Modular Tips and Tricks: Sub-harmonic Generator Patch using Function 2
  • KORG Volca Modular Tips and Tricks: Basic Envelope Follower Patch using Function 1
  • KORG Volca Modular Bouncing Ball Patch
  • I got to play Henry the Pipe Organ at London Bridge Station! J.S. Bach Prelude I in C Major BWV 846
  • Playing Henry the Pipe Organ at London Bridge Station! Spirited Away One Summers Day Joe Hisaishi
  • Better Than The Book - Bump In The Night (Vocal Harmony Practice 13-7-2024)
  • Darude - Sandstorm on Organ (Yamaha YC25D)
  • Trance Synth vibes Organ (Yamaha YC-25D)


I currently have videos scheduled for up until the end of November including some about the studio move, but after that I'm not sure what's going to happen with the lack of a working computer. I'll be continuing to film stuff when I can and hopefully I'll be able to get back to editing and scheduling videos soon.


And that about wraps things up for this month! Not exactly the best news I was hoping to share, but we'll just have to see how things progress over the next month. Thanks for always supporting my various projects however you can, and I'll be back with hopefully some better news in November. Take care!


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Remi-le-Oduen

I do hope you'll be able to salvage as much as possible from your old PC. Hope good new will prevail from now on

Jabun

Thanks so much. After much cmd prompt poking and some extra help from friends, we finally managed to get it booted up again, but there's still some stuff to sort out as somethings still not quite right... biggest hurdle seems to be over now though thankfully. Hopefully it'll be back and up and running properly soon.

Cyberdevil

Ah you did get it working again! So the HDD's okay, wonder what the problem was then... file corruption? Have you run CHKDSK on it? Something with the bios?

Jabun

Not sure what the initial problem was but there is still some stuff to sort out. Computer in general is back up and running fairly smoothly, but my audio workspace has some errors, plugins not working properly etc... gotta deep dive and note and fix everything at some point but it's a mammoth task... Indeed chkdsk have been run (some other stuff too) and that part of things seems solved now at least :) Planning to clean up the HDD then clone it to a newer one and continue on that, then use the old one as a backup system in case of major disaster.

Cyberdevil

Sounds like a good plan! Ought clone some drives myself, that's an easy way to keep a failsafe if the whole system fails, usually I just backup files I work with...

Curious what actually happened though, and what you did to fix it? It seemed like it wouldn't boot at all, but did it finally just start working after all? Startup repairs and stuff?

Jabun

Yeah me too. I usually just back up the files, but it'd be a major pain in the ass setting up the software ecosystem again if there was a major breakdown or loss...

No idea why the intial error, but it wouldn't boot, or start-up repair, or even (try to) system restore. I did some scans and stuff at the command prompt, and somewhere there it allowed me to start trying to force a system restore at least, to which it failed to roll back to 3 different start points, but after that, it somehow kicked something so that it would boot up again, but then there some resolution and other issues, programs not working, or the licence/authorisation for them not connecting, etc... At the moment, it seems to be mostly back to normal now (drivers updated too), but I still need to go through all my programs and plugins one by one and note and fix all the errors... example of an error, I have a library program for the BBC Orchestra (to play in my own tracks) but now when I try to open it, there's no instruments there, it's just an empty "room" DX Not ideal...

Cyberdevil

Mmm, thinking about how I'd go about cloning drives frequently it wouldn't be that hard, I don't have a huge HDD in the computer so it'd be pretty quick to clone, the computer's easy to open, the docking station does such operations automatically... must just be very careful to not clone the wrong drive to the wrong drive, as I once did with an old game collection. XD

I guess you at least managed to get into the BIOS when you were starting up then, it booted that far at least? Any error messages? Man that's strange... maybe some file corruption, or some kind of virus, that's hopefully overwritten now then... btw CMOS battery issues sometimes cause weird problems if the time starts resetting, with software that checks licenses as per a particular date, updates after ditto, restores after ditto, things like that... so strange that it started working after all though after all that though! Shouldn't be the battery then. Mysterious.

Interesting to read about anyhow. Hope you get it all back on track and it doesn't come back again...

Jabun

Looks like the drive cloning thing will be postponed now as the drive I was going to be cloning to seems to be broken (not recognised by Windows or the Bios and makes an unsettling ticking sound when starting up...). Sounds like it'd be a good plan in the future though. Dang that's something I'm super scared of (writing over the wrong drive). Good to have backups not-clones just in case!

Seems to be working mostly normally again now with the old drives in a new tower. The only thing which doesn't seem to have transferred correctly and I can't seem to fix is the plugin I use for my BTTB Horns DX It's stuck in demo mode, which is full featured but mutes itself after 15 minutes so it's a pain... trying to resolve that, but having a lot of trouble (contacting tech support now). Apart from that it's just one more license to transfer over but that should hopefully be ok. Getting there, but not ideal...

Cyberdevil

Oh dang. :/ So it was the drive huh... that ticking sound's no good, I recognize that.... think you'll make do with file backups after all then, or try to send it somewhere for recovery? If you do, it's best to not try to boot too much before then, if the needle/platter's not spinning as intended it might get more damaged each time you try to start it...

Yeah writing over that drive was no fun. XD Not super-important files, but I'd spend quite some time collecting games for it... it's definitely one of this things you'd just best never do when tired! Made the mistake late night. Otherwise it's fortunately pretty clear which drive goes where on the docking station. If I start doing this regularly it just dawned on me it's probably a good idea to mark the source drive too, with a green sticker or something, so you just never accidentally swap 'em either.

Ohh it was the backup drive that was ticking! Well that's a relief. Misread. Mmm sounds like it's going the right way at least, Ganbatte!

Jabun

Yeah just the new drive that I was going to clone to. Both my in use drives (and file back ups) are fine albeit maybe a bit old on the former, but they're working thankfully :) Good plan on sticker labels! And DEFINITELY the not something to do while tired thing DX I still need to go through my WIP projects to make sure they're running correctly. Cheers!

Cyberdevil

Awesome. :) Well hope you get a clone of it going soon, you never know! Cheers man!

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