

We all want to get the best quality for the least amount of dollars. Since I’ve had my audio interface for years, I forgot how easy it was to get lost in the mix with all the options available out there. So Many Choices, So Little Budget… Narrow Your Options With These Criteria I’ve never heard of that happening before, but apparently, it happens.Īll hope was lost, and I had no other choice - I needed to buy a new audio interface to replace the one I just lost.Īfter making my decision and using the new interface for a few months, I decided to share my research and writing about what I think is the best audio interface for DIY musicians to help you make a decision on the heart of your home studio. That’s when I realized that somehow, the sudden electrical surge from the lightning must’ve fried the audio interface’s circuitry.

It’s plugged in, but the lights won’t turn on… That’s when I realized that my audio interface wasn’t even on. I wondered why sound wasn’t coming out of my studio monitors.
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It came back several minutes later, and I turned the computer back on thinking that I was going start over where I left off.Īfter my desktop computer restarted, I opened up Reaper (my beat making software at the time) and tried to go back to my session. In the middle of the session, lightning struck, and I guess it hit an electric pole near my place because it knocked out the power for our whole street. Since it was raining too hard to go out, I decided to write some verses to a new instrumental that one of my friends produced over the weekend.

More than a year ago, I was sitting in my studio (AKA my bedroom) working on a new song during a stormy night.
