Always check the connectors

That's today's tip of the day.  Here you can see one headless engineer plus one engineer with a head in the orchestral studio trying to work out why we couldn't get level to tape on four channels.  That's the SSL C200 digital console, looking out through the glass to the large room where orchestras and people go.  Out of the picture were me, with a head, obviously trying really hard to help because I was taking photos, plus another engineer who also has a head, also helping out with the situation.  That's four extremely skilled sound engineers trying to work out the solution to the problem.  Naturally we were trying all the difficult things, like going deep into the depths of the software configaration for the digital connections.  But the answer was simply that the cable wasn't in properly.  Lots of time could have been saved if we'd thought of this first.  But on the positive side it was a good exercise in dealing with the highly complicated software which goes with this desk.