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Use more fat than feels reasonable while it's young. A proper tablespoon of butter, not a smear. You can cut back once the surface is established. Trying to cook a low-fat egg on a six week old pan is fighting physics.

Common, and mostly it's the extension angle rather than the load. A flat-hand push-up puts your wrist at roughly 90 degrees of extension, which is near end range for most desk workers whose wrists spend all day at neutral. The joint isn't damaged, it's just being asked for a range it never uses.

What to do:

• push-ups on parallettes, dumbbells or even the edge of a book, so the wrist stays neutral
• if you want to keep them flat, spread your fingers wide and actively grip the floor — that shifts load off the heel of the hand
• two minutes of wrist prep before training: gentle rocking on hands and knees forward and back, palms down then palms up, no forcing

The ache should fade over a few weeks as the range becomes normal. If it turns sharp or starts appearing during the set rather than the next day, get it looked at.

It isn't cheating, it's just removing a range-of-motion limit that has nothing to do with the muscles you're training. Keep doing a little flat-hand work alongside so you build the range gradually.

And write three specific notes on your phone while listening. 'Vocal too bright in chorus, snare too long, bass loses the second verse.' Then fix only those three. Otherwise you rebuild the whole thing and end up somewhere different but not better.

Second the sweep. I'd also add: gate your expectations on a 3.2m room. You can make it good, you can't make it flat below about 60Hz. Learn the room's lie and use references and you'll ship fine mixes out of it.

Sear is the other half. Screaming hot empty pan then cold steak straight from the fridge is a big thermal swing. Preheat over medium for five minutes before going high, and let the meat sit out a bit — kinder to the pan and better crust anyway.

Didn't know the weight difference was that big. That alone probably decides it — I've got a modern 12 inch that I avoid using because it's a workout.

I don't own a sander so that's £30 plus a tool, which puts it above the vintage price. Useful to know it's an option though.

That's exactly what I was doing. Picked the kick as the low end owner and high-passed the bass at 55 with saturation up top and it immediately sat.

Not being sore the next day isn't necessarily a problem, but four sets to failure three times a week and no soreness at all makes me wonder about the rep quality. Are you going full dead hang at the bottom and chin clearly over at the top? Half reps stall exactly like this.

Domestic hobs are usually the underlying issue with woks. Home burners can't get a 14 inch pan hot across the whole surface, so the ring where the flame hits cures properly and the sloping sides stay tacky. Tilt and rotate the wok constantly while seasoning so every part gets time over the flame.

Learn to bail properly if you haven't — cartwheel out to the side. People who can't bail subconsciously hold back from committing to the balance, and holding back looks exactly like drifting one way.

Don't chase hot levels at 24 bit. -18 average and -12 peak is plenty of headroom and your noise floor is nowhere near a problem. The habit of tracking near 0 came from 16 bit tape-era thinking and it doesn't apply.

Alternative to vinegar if you have the space and patience: electrolysis with a battery charger and washing soda. Zero risk of over-etching, strips both rust and old seasoning, and it's oddly satisfying. Overkill for one pan though.

Fair correction, that's a reasonable flag. Scrap the german hang from my list.

Rings being worse than bar points at stability rather than strength. Add scapular work directly — scap pulls, ring support holds with active shoulders, and german hangs done very conservatively. Build the position before you load it.

Split it. £200 on treatment, £120 on a decent pair of monitor stands if you're on a desk, and the rest on a measurement mic. Getting the monitors off the desk surface and up to ear height is a real, audible improvement that costs almost nothing in comparison and people skip it constantly.

Doorway bar for the flat, rings for the park. That combination costs well under £70 and covers everything.

Rings are strictly better than a fixed bar for training, but they need 2.4m of clearance to be useful and a doorway gives you maybe 2m. You can hang rings from a doorway bar but the range is so compressed that dips and anything below horizontal is out. Meanwhile a doorway bar does pull-ups, hanging leg raises and inverted rows if you set your feet on a chair, which is most of what you need indoors.

Take the rings to the park and hang them from the frame there — that's where they earn their keep.

They weigh about a kilo with straps and fit in a small bag. Half the people you see on park bars have a pair.