Alex Watson

Studio tech for over half my life at Angel Studios, occasional music composer, and now lecturer at Abbey Road Institute

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@LNRailway So this lasted one week, and now we’re back to 8 car trains and a train that was overcrowded so 1/2 passengers at Harrow couldn’t board. If prices are going to keep increasing, then the service level should,at best, stay the same!!

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@LNRailway any news on when the 8:14 from Harrow will go back to the full 12 coaches. It’s nigh on impossible to get to work on time, as you can’t get on the train - and it’s been like this for 3 weeks now.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

Song: Lithuania
Vocals: Spain
Performance: Croatia
#Eurovision2023

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

Hey @YodelOnline, given that you lost my package, how about you stop sending me messages to go and pick it up?

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@btsport audio on the football feed on AppleTV has been poor for weeks. Today, audio cuts out every 5s for a couple of seconds. Pay premium for this service.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@alteredego88 @Orchestorm @hellylovesrawk @TheBarronDotNet @J_MLindeMusic @michael_cryne Not for me. Switched 5 years ago. Takes a little time to personalise how it works - but that’s what I like about it. Highly configurable. Using it on a Mac Studio with local VEP and runs smoothly. Don’t think I could ever be tempted to switch.

[Tony Lewis @MusicEditorcouk]

Everyone who has been stuffed by @Dropbox @DropboxSupport @DropboxBusiness Mac OS changes no longer allowing Dropbox to reside on an external: check out https://t.co/pxLoCfI9eX - allows Dropbox to be mounted as an external drive.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@MusicEditorcouk @Dropbox @DropboxSupport @DropboxBusiness Perfect. Was thinking I was going to probably have to shift to own NAS with cloud service.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@Tinaguo @cinesamples @mpatti We’ll this can only be good for cinesamples and composers, but bad for my wallet!

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@LisetteAmago Depends. Writing to picture I find easier in DAW, but feel I’m more creative when writing notes in Dorico

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@AnneKathrinDern For a long time I thought TV and film was using this for dramatic effect, as was only aware of UK. Me or my employer have to give 3 months notice, I find it crazy that 4 weeks isn’t the norm everywhere - for both parties.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@chensonmusic Ah I see. I grew up in Yorkshire, but parents are Liverpool and London born so traditions may have been lost.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@chensonmusic @DavidGArnold Stargate. That was the first time I did a MIDI mock-up in the strange little program Cakewalk that came free on a CD with a computer magazine

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@chensonmusic Cadac beige. Though I have an advantage in that I did my placement year at cadac and fixed the PSU for Air-Edel once.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@FernBrady Fast becoming my favourite contestant. The greatest laugh.

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@LNRailway Would be very welcome. My suggestion if possible with train stock would be 3 8 car trains at approx 8:05, 8:15, 8:35 rather than 2 12 car trains. Same number of cars, but stops everyone trying to get on the 8:15

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@LNRailway how about rather than the staff instructing people to wait for the next train if they can’t get on you go back to a service from Harrow that can actually handle the capacity of travellers?

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@LNRailway No. This is every day. Used to be the following- 8:05, 8:15, 8:24, 8:29, 8:34, 8:54. Now we have 8:15, 8:35. It’s not enough

[Alex Watson @agbwatson]

@littlesclittle @EmmaButtSound This happens all the time where I wirk. Incompetent people are covered for, often by their assistants, all because we don’t want the studio to look bad to the paying client. I’ve thought about it before, and I would always cover up for pride in my workplace