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Rob_Reality
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Thank you to everyone for the responses. I got the card today, and will be spending the evening, and likely much of tomorrow familiarizing myself with it. I agree that lack of time will be my downfall in this project, but then it doesn't have to be a perfect recording either. It was understood when we went together on all of this that it wouldn't be professional quality the first time we did it. There will be plenty of later attempts, but for the purpose of lining up a couple jobs in the next state, they need a CD to send immediately.
tedluk said this:
"He freely admits that he wasn't willing to make the slightest effort to find answers to his questions and THAT is what I didn't appreciate. Someone with his supposed experience should know better. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that no one else finds that attitude insulting. I'm more than willing to help people, but I don't think it's asking too much for them to expend even a little effort of their own. 10 minutes would have probably allowed Rob to do a search of "soundcards" and read 30-40 posts in several threads."
Sir, you have completely misjudge me, my actions, and my intentions. My statements were meant to dissuade the normal "look it up . . . try google" type responses that people give on bulletin boards. It was essentially a warning to people with that type of attitude, that this post wasn't directed at them. I never implied anywhere that I wasn't willing to put in 10 minutes on my own. Nor did I say that I bought that software with NO idea of how to use it either. If you read closer, you will see that what I said was, I've been using it with the soundcard that I have, and the quality is horrendous. There is a lag between the tracks, and it sounds as though I have an open mic somewhere that is picking up white noise and garbage. I've used the software off and on to lay down a rhythm and improvise leads, to practice, etc, but never to record anything semi-serious, because of the quality. I am not completely new to this arena, but I was suddenly in a hurry. Instead of having a couple months to research and contemplate hardware upgrades that will work for my specific application, I had a few choices:
1) Go to a music store, and trust that they are selling me the equipment that I need.
2) Trust myself, and my currently level of knowledge, and buy a product that appears to me to be sufficient
or
3) Ask for help from a group of people that have a love for the subject, and stand to gain nothing from my choice.
Rather than potentially waste my money . . . and my time, I chose the third option. I have every intention of continuing my research, and in the future, the upgrades won't be such an immediate mystery. If you'll notice, I've stuck around here and involved myself in answering questions as well. I wasn't interested in stealing your time, or most of all . . wasting it. Your time, your recommendations, and your suggestions were appreciated, and in some cases, followed to the letter.
I have spent a significant amount of time on forums dedicated to various subjects, some of which I listed for you in an above post. I know how these places work, and I've often posted, "Try looking four posts down from this one, you'll find your answer there." However . . . I've done my share of answering the same question over and over again as well. This is all by choice. I choose to answer their questions, point them in the right direction, or not get involved. I would ask you that to please choose better in the future. I mean, after all, if you think I'm lazy, etc . . . what's a bigger waste of time? Answering the question, or spending time writing a post about what a big waste of time it would be to answer the question?
If that isn't sufficient for you, then I have to admit, you caught me. I'm not what I say I am. I'm a spy, sent here from another planet to trick you into giving up your hard earned information by formulating a story about my father and uncle's country music band needing me to record them a CD in my one bedroom house in Tulsa Oklahoma. You got me . . . but let's try to keep it a secret eh? I'll lose my ride home if they find out I was so sloppy in my mission.
Rob.
tedluk said this:
"He freely admits that he wasn't willing to make the slightest effort to find answers to his questions and THAT is what I didn't appreciate. Someone with his supposed experience should know better. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised that no one else finds that attitude insulting. I'm more than willing to help people, but I don't think it's asking too much for them to expend even a little effort of their own. 10 minutes would have probably allowed Rob to do a search of "soundcards" and read 30-40 posts in several threads."
Sir, you have completely misjudge me, my actions, and my intentions. My statements were meant to dissuade the normal "look it up . . . try google" type responses that people give on bulletin boards. It was essentially a warning to people with that type of attitude, that this post wasn't directed at them. I never implied anywhere that I wasn't willing to put in 10 minutes on my own. Nor did I say that I bought that software with NO idea of how to use it either. If you read closer, you will see that what I said was, I've been using it with the soundcard that I have, and the quality is horrendous. There is a lag between the tracks, and it sounds as though I have an open mic somewhere that is picking up white noise and garbage. I've used the software off and on to lay down a rhythm and improvise leads, to practice, etc, but never to record anything semi-serious, because of the quality. I am not completely new to this arena, but I was suddenly in a hurry. Instead of having a couple months to research and contemplate hardware upgrades that will work for my specific application, I had a few choices:
1) Go to a music store, and trust that they are selling me the equipment that I need.
2) Trust myself, and my currently level of knowledge, and buy a product that appears to me to be sufficient
or
3) Ask for help from a group of people that have a love for the subject, and stand to gain nothing from my choice.
Rather than potentially waste my money . . . and my time, I chose the third option. I have every intention of continuing my research, and in the future, the upgrades won't be such an immediate mystery. If you'll notice, I've stuck around here and involved myself in answering questions as well. I wasn't interested in stealing your time, or most of all . . wasting it. Your time, your recommendations, and your suggestions were appreciated, and in some cases, followed to the letter.
I have spent a significant amount of time on forums dedicated to various subjects, some of which I listed for you in an above post. I know how these places work, and I've often posted, "Try looking four posts down from this one, you'll find your answer there." However . . . I've done my share of answering the same question over and over again as well. This is all by choice. I choose to answer their questions, point them in the right direction, or not get involved. I would ask you that to please choose better in the future. I mean, after all, if you think I'm lazy, etc . . . what's a bigger waste of time? Answering the question, or spending time writing a post about what a big waste of time it would be to answer the question?
If that isn't sufficient for you, then I have to admit, you caught me. I'm not what I say I am. I'm a spy, sent here from another planet to trick you into giving up your hard earned information by formulating a story about my father and uncle's country music band needing me to record them a CD in my one bedroom house in Tulsa Oklahoma. You got me . . . but let's try to keep it a secret eh? I'll lose my ride home if they find out I was so sloppy in my mission.
Rob.
