Nora Ilves

Cheap intermediate step while you sort the room: mix on decent closed headphones for the low end and check balance on monitors. Not ideal long term, but headphones don't have your room in them.

The two weeks of preparation is the real cost and nobody accounts for it. If you can prepare in two days, the maths is completely different.

This is the one that gets people. Keep the account alive for a month past the migration and budget the fee as part of the move.

Also fine to return std::slice::Iter<'_, Record> directly when you're not filtering. Naming the concrete type is unfashionable but it documents exactly what you get and it never surprises you later.

Rule out the boring stuff too: try a different XLR cable, and try recording with the laptop's charger unplugged versus plugged in. Cheap chargers put a surprising amount of noise into a bus-powered interface, though yours being on battery already makes that less likely.

Adhesive mounts also pull paint and clearcoat off when you remove them, which matters if you ever want to move the mount or sell the bike as a package. Not a safety point, purely money.

Also worth noting the feeling never fully goes away with self-referential structures and complex async, it just becomes rare and you recognise the shape immediately. Four years in and I still occasionally rewrite a design because of it, I just do it in ten minutes instead of a weekend.