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K-dub
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Technology has failed me once again, but this time I can't help but wonder if there wasn't intervention from beyond the grave involved.
This postulation requires some background:
One of my closest friends, the guitarist from my college band, passed away a few years ago from a massive stroke.
Over the years, we'd been working on this song ... but I'd never quite felt I dialed in the mix right, so I continued work on it.
The last mix I'd done is the mix presented here. He loved it, and thought I should call "The damn thing done." ... so to speak.
I sort of agreed with him, but I've found that as I learn more over the years, sometimes it's better to be patient until I learn a new mix technique that just "fits" where I want to take the mix sonic-wise.
Anyways, I use Sonar for recording ... and for those that don't know, you can backup whole project (.cwp files) into one bundled file that contains everything ... known as a .bun file format.
So, because we had a loose agreement on the mix, I backed it all up in my redundant .bun archive folder ... which auto saves to two more backup drives ... and considering it "safe", I removed the original project and shelved it.
Fast forward years ... now several from his death ... to a few days ago.
I'm listening back to the song, and I say to myself ... "Eh, there's a couple things I could tweak here."
Noting that the tune is no longer in current work in progress status, I go to my archive to retrieve the .bun file to reopen it.
You can predict what happened. It won't open. I get an obscure error message that blocks the file from loading into Sonar. I try all the other backups. No go.
This project is over, all files lost to the ages. The last mix is the final mix, whether I like it or not.
I cannot help but think he didn't want me screwing around with it anymore, and somehow had a ghostly hand in corrupting the file.
So for better or worse, this is it:
UR Found Out
It's sort of a "Steely Dan does the Rolling Stones" piece ...
Best,
Kev-
This postulation requires some background:
One of my closest friends, the guitarist from my college band, passed away a few years ago from a massive stroke.
Over the years, we'd been working on this song ... but I'd never quite felt I dialed in the mix right, so I continued work on it.
The last mix I'd done is the mix presented here. He loved it, and thought I should call "The damn thing done." ... so to speak.
I sort of agreed with him, but I've found that as I learn more over the years, sometimes it's better to be patient until I learn a new mix technique that just "fits" where I want to take the mix sonic-wise.
Anyways, I use Sonar for recording ... and for those that don't know, you can backup whole project (.cwp files) into one bundled file that contains everything ... known as a .bun file format.
So, because we had a loose agreement on the mix, I backed it all up in my redundant .bun archive folder ... which auto saves to two more backup drives ... and considering it "safe", I removed the original project and shelved it.
Fast forward years ... now several from his death ... to a few days ago.
I'm listening back to the song, and I say to myself ... "Eh, there's a couple things I could tweak here."
Noting that the tune is no longer in current work in progress status, I go to my archive to retrieve the .bun file to reopen it.
You can predict what happened. It won't open. I get an obscure error message that blocks the file from loading into Sonar. I try all the other backups. No go.
This project is over, all files lost to the ages. The last mix is the final mix, whether I like it or not.
I cannot help but think he didn't want me screwing around with it anymore, and somehow had a ghostly hand in corrupting the file.
So for better or worse, this is it:
UR Found Out
It's sort of a "Steely Dan does the Rolling Stones" piece ...
Best,
Kev-
