Well, this has been the first week at my new room, and I've done two albums already.
Smart as I am, I didn't get the IEC male/female connectors for my Furman P-1400-AR-E yet, so I'm connected the mains naked. And of course no UPS yet, since I just didn't form an opinion on which to get at a decent time.
Suddenly, it's the worst time of year for power delivery. There's a load of heavy, frozen snow hanging on trees, and it makes the trees bend and fall over the aerial wires. I've had a few short breaks in power delivery (quickly fixed as I'm pretty close to town centre), but there are areas in Finland right now that could stay for weeks without electricity. Very difficult conditions.
I ordered an APC Smart series UPS for the DAW yesterday, as well a bunch of cables. I'll try that first.
The thing that pisses me off right now is how the short brownouts make my amplifier disconnect the load now and then (the protection circuit disconnects at an instant when the power is lost ). The conditions are a little special right now, so I'll just bite it until the situation is fixed, but for the future:
Should I just buy a huge UPS for the whole chain+amplifier? Are online UPS'es capable of delivering the transient current for the amps as needed? The power supply of the amp is stiff, so the real juice should come from there, though.
I calculate I should be fine with a 5000VA UPS, but I'd probably scale up a little bit, depending on the price.