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Rockenheimer
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Closure! At last! The Lord is kind!
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! Best deal I was ever offered! Thanks a bazillion! You're on!
This is the fine print behind the barrage of questions - just because some of us thought I was putting them on and I'm so vain it actually hurt:
Four years ago I came to this country with nothing but a guitar and the clothes on my back to marry a girl who was also a guitarist / songwriter and who rocked my world. Turns out she had "recording equipment" she more or less knew her way around. I wanted right away to unplug everything and start from scratch in an attempt to discover what she had, and how it worked, etc. She told me right out of the gate that she'd kill me if I unplugged anything, cuz a producer-friend of hers (Paul DeFazio) plugged everything up for her some ten years prior, and if I pulled a single jack out, I would screw up her tedious hold on how any of that stuff worked. You all know the massive amount of spaghetti that hangs in the back of stacked 1604 Mackies and Tascam 8 track and monitor amp and Digitech sound processor and noise gates and and and (and the DUST piled up on there was enough to send my head exploding in snot with constant sneezing). Suffice it to say I kept my nose away from her equipment and merrily kept jamming with my new band or writing songs on my crappy (and simple) Fostex X-15 four track. To hell with fancy Schmancy stuff.
Except that I wanted to record new material (like I did in my old life) but just for "ME" this time. No courting record companies, none of that sh!t cuz now I have a new career that has NOTHING to do with music, and besides, I already gave. I spent a good decade of my life fried on everything and playing every shitty nowhere watering hole in the province of Quebec. But you MISS recording; you MISS seeing your dumb ass on the cover of an album, etc. But with all the expenses inherent to building extensions on a house, raising two kids, paying for a sitter 40 hours a week, I just don't have the luxury of going into a studio and paying for somebody to record Good Ol' Steph sitting there doing drum tracks, then bass tracks, then guitar tracks, then singing, then overdubs, etc. With all this equipment sitting in the house? Hell no! So on weekends, when the kids are taking a nap and the wife has run out of ideas on her Honey Do List, I lock myself away with the dusty equipment and figure it out one fader at a time. With lots of trial and error, I managed to record some pretty good sounding rock 'n roll. And looking ahead, I'm thinking to myself why not make a bunch of copies and send 'em out to my old band mates from Montreal, and old rabid "fans" and while I'm at it, why not make a couple of extra copies for record labels, as a goof, hey you never know, etc. What's the least expensive way of doing that? Why, doing it myself of course! The rest you pretty much can figure out for yourselves. Just for the record, I thought for sure with God as my witness that that 8 track only had 2 RCA's coming out the back there, Reg.
I was asking all these questions knowing fully well that it would take me a long time to get down to the nitty gritty with the answers I sought. By the time I was pointed in a direction I felt I could handle, I had to factor in time to read up on whatever it was (Ntrack, Cubase, M-Audio sound cards, whatever it would eventually have been) time to familiarize myself with the "new" technology, and by the time I'd have that down, I'd be ready for The Great Digital Transfer. I'm totally taking you up on your offer with much gratitude, (and I'm thinking of taking my mini-cam along with me to film The Self asking you a bunch of "how-did-you-just-do-that" questions for later use) but meanwhile: the Greatest Album Of All Time recording is still in process. Getting the tracks down are not a problem. It got delayed because some of the guys in my band decided that they want to get involved. (This is for a "me" project - nothing to do with my cover band). These are songs of mine. I was playing all the instruments on there, but then the keyboard guy who's way better than me wants in, the bass player also wants in and he's also better than me on bass. And now we just got a new drummer last week but I doubt he's gonna be better than me - but I'll still have to see.
How much material have I got to transfer? Right now - three songs. I'm basically starting over cuz the guys want in but they have to come up with their own parts first, so this trows everything back some. Besides, I have to come up with new material, and that's gonna take a while. When do I plan on mastering a final product? I'm an optimistic individual: I'm shooting for "prior to December 31st, 2005".
Now I know this completely throws the thread in another direction, but I was telling the wife today that I'm seriously thinking about buying Cubase (it ain't worth the hassle to save a couple of hundreds, I'm finding out). SHE replied why not just buy an ADAT?
So there you have it folks. The long and the short. Strryder, I'm at Rocken_heimer@yahoo.com if you're serious about pursuing this with me - I can't express how grateful I am for your generous offer. Now I just need to know the pros and cons of Cubase vs. ADAT! Piece o' cake, right?
Thank you.
Steph
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! Best deal I was ever offered! Thanks a bazillion! You're on!
This is the fine print behind the barrage of questions - just because some of us thought I was putting them on and I'm so vain it actually hurt:
Four years ago I came to this country with nothing but a guitar and the clothes on my back to marry a girl who was also a guitarist / songwriter and who rocked my world. Turns out she had "recording equipment" she more or less knew her way around. I wanted right away to unplug everything and start from scratch in an attempt to discover what she had, and how it worked, etc. She told me right out of the gate that she'd kill me if I unplugged anything, cuz a producer-friend of hers (Paul DeFazio) plugged everything up for her some ten years prior, and if I pulled a single jack out, I would screw up her tedious hold on how any of that stuff worked. You all know the massive amount of spaghetti that hangs in the back of stacked 1604 Mackies and Tascam 8 track and monitor amp and Digitech sound processor and noise gates and and and (and the DUST piled up on there was enough to send my head exploding in snot with constant sneezing). Suffice it to say I kept my nose away from her equipment and merrily kept jamming with my new band or writing songs on my crappy (and simple) Fostex X-15 four track. To hell with fancy Schmancy stuff.
Except that I wanted to record new material (like I did in my old life) but just for "ME" this time. No courting record companies, none of that sh!t cuz now I have a new career that has NOTHING to do with music, and besides, I already gave. I spent a good decade of my life fried on everything and playing every shitty nowhere watering hole in the province of Quebec. But you MISS recording; you MISS seeing your dumb ass on the cover of an album, etc. But with all the expenses inherent to building extensions on a house, raising two kids, paying for a sitter 40 hours a week, I just don't have the luxury of going into a studio and paying for somebody to record Good Ol' Steph sitting there doing drum tracks, then bass tracks, then guitar tracks, then singing, then overdubs, etc. With all this equipment sitting in the house? Hell no! So on weekends, when the kids are taking a nap and the wife has run out of ideas on her Honey Do List, I lock myself away with the dusty equipment and figure it out one fader at a time. With lots of trial and error, I managed to record some pretty good sounding rock 'n roll. And looking ahead, I'm thinking to myself why not make a bunch of copies and send 'em out to my old band mates from Montreal, and old rabid "fans" and while I'm at it, why not make a couple of extra copies for record labels, as a goof, hey you never know, etc. What's the least expensive way of doing that? Why, doing it myself of course! The rest you pretty much can figure out for yourselves. Just for the record, I thought for sure with God as my witness that that 8 track only had 2 RCA's coming out the back there, Reg.
I was asking all these questions knowing fully well that it would take me a long time to get down to the nitty gritty with the answers I sought. By the time I was pointed in a direction I felt I could handle, I had to factor in time to read up on whatever it was (Ntrack, Cubase, M-Audio sound cards, whatever it would eventually have been) time to familiarize myself with the "new" technology, and by the time I'd have that down, I'd be ready for The Great Digital Transfer. I'm totally taking you up on your offer with much gratitude, (and I'm thinking of taking my mini-cam along with me to film The Self asking you a bunch of "how-did-you-just-do-that" questions for later use) but meanwhile: the Greatest Album Of All Time recording is still in process. Getting the tracks down are not a problem. It got delayed because some of the guys in my band decided that they want to get involved. (This is for a "me" project - nothing to do with my cover band). These are songs of mine. I was playing all the instruments on there, but then the keyboard guy who's way better than me wants in, the bass player also wants in and he's also better than me on bass. And now we just got a new drummer last week but I doubt he's gonna be better than me - but I'll still have to see.
How much material have I got to transfer? Right now - three songs. I'm basically starting over cuz the guys want in but they have to come up with their own parts first, so this trows everything back some. Besides, I have to come up with new material, and that's gonna take a while. When do I plan on mastering a final product? I'm an optimistic individual: I'm shooting for "prior to December 31st, 2005".
Now I know this completely throws the thread in another direction, but I was telling the wife today that I'm seriously thinking about buying Cubase (it ain't worth the hassle to save a couple of hundreds, I'm finding out). SHE replied why not just buy an ADAT?
So there you have it folks. The long and the short. Strryder, I'm at Rocken_heimer@yahoo.com if you're serious about pursuing this with me - I can't express how grateful I am for your generous offer. Now I just need to know the pros and cons of Cubase vs. ADAT! Piece o' cake, right?
Thank you.
Steph