u/Interesting_Worry457

I built a small, free macOS menu bar app to use your normal Volume Keys.
When UAD Console is running and your Apollo is selected as your system output, F10/F11/F12 take over the UAD Console monitor volume (mute/down/up) instead. Switch to a different setup and everything goes right back to normal system volume, automatically!

A few other things it does:

• Custom shortcuts: map any key combo to mute/solo individual input channels, Talkback, Dim, or Mono
• Choose whether it's active system-wide, or only when specific apps (your DAW, for example) are in the foreground
• On-screen volume feedback, like the native macOS HUD
• Works in English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
• Universal binary (Intel + Apple Silicon), macOS 13+

You can download it here :)

Completely free, no ads, no tracking. Not affiliated with Universal Audio — just something I built for my own setup that I figured others might want too.

btw, I know there’s already a built in shortcut in Console, which is cmd+fn+f10-12, I wanted an even easier solution with added features.

I built a small, free macOS menu bar app to use your normal Volume Keys.
When UAD Console is running and your Apollo is selected as your system output, F10/F11/F12 take over the UAD Console monitor volume (mute/down/up) instead. Switch to a different setup and everything goes right back to normal system volume, automatically!

A few other things it does:

• Custom shortcuts: map any key combo to mute/solo individual input channels, Talkback, Dim, or Mono
• Choose whether it's active system-wide, or only when specific apps (your DAW, for example) are in the foreground
• On-screen volume feedback, like the native macOS HUD
• Works in English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
• Universal binary (Intel + Apple Silicon), macOS 13+

You can download it here :)

Completely free, no ads, no tracking. Not affiliated with Universal Audio — just something I built for my own setup that I figured others might want too.

I have the opportunity to buy a cave/basement, to potentially build a studio in it.

How perilous is it of a project? Technically and acoustically speaking.

Already found some resources online but am looking for more personal experiences :)

Thanks everyone!

[EDIT] I figured it needed more infos, sorry..! In Paris, a lot of old buildings have caves/basements which are used for storage/cellars, and as this city is one of the most dense in Europe, every tiny square meter matter to live/work/stock/be creative. So it is not unusual to have a studio in such places! Also considering it’s “””cheap”””. Here is a typical cave you could buy :

https://imgur.com/a/cOk1dT7