Here's some troubleshooting tricks of the trade—helpful hints that are easy to implement and easy on the budget, shared by your engineering colleagues. One of the important functions of patchbays, or ...

While watching a YouTube video, you might unexpectedly run into an error accompanied by a message, "Audio renderer error. Please restart your computer." This error ...

We often get flooded with emails from readers attempting to troubleshoot why their home theater systems no longer work correctly. This assumes at one point your system was operating correctly but has ...

Microsoft will remove the MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool) by 2025. This is because of the vulnerabilities found in MSDT in the past few years. Now, Microsoft has decided to retire MSDT-based ...

In this final section I'll present some MIDI-specific troubleshooting tips, along with a brief description of the setup here at StudioDave, a few closing remarks, and of course some links to the Linux ...

Whether you're putting on a presentation or want some music for the office, an unreliable audio signal can be both unprofessional and annoying. A number of scenarios can result in your computer volume ...

Under fortuitous conditions, systems may be acceptably quiet in spite of poor techniques. But physics will ultimately rule and noises may appear for no apparent reason! Once we understand how earthing ...

We previously noted some stability issues with M-Audio's Revolution 7.1 audio card (the only PCI-X compatible card currently offered by the company). Now MacFixIt reader Jeff Johnson reports that the ...

Noise issues In our continuing coverage of the Power Mac G5 noise issue, it appears that Apple technical support is recommending a PMU (power management unit) reset to some customers who are having ...

I have a friend who has had nothing but nightmares result from his attempts at setting up the fabled low-latency high-performance Linux audio system. In sympathy with his plight I present here a ...