Re: recording 4 cd four: cool in dreamsville , baby


"hank alrich" <walkinay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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rockon02 wrote:

I don't suppose that we've all had the same experiences Dar, but we've
all (well I'm assuming that others are as thick as I am sometimes, well
mostly with computer stuff), but we've all had some sort of extreme
frustration when the damn thing seems to have a mind of its own.

I rarely remember from one recording session to the next how to operate
the thousands of functions on Cubase (which I use for editing, not
recording).

Sometimes I even have trouble transfering the tracks from the Yamaha to
the computer, which is pretty easy (as far as I remember).

When some of us older farts suggest we miss the straightforward approach
of analog recording, where we'd just hit <Red> and roll, and the
youngsters say it's becasue we're too old to figure out computers, they
don't get the story you're telling here. All this supposedly simple
technology has actually complicated the hell out of the process of
capturing music for posteriority. Yep, we can mangle the crap out of it
once we get it corralled, but roundup time can be frustrating.

--
ha


Aint that the truth !. In a way it would be so much simpler to just
play for a few more years (to achieve any remote hope of a single
usable take straight through) and pushing a button on, say, a reel to reel.

It does take some time and work setting up even a very modest pc "studio",
and the (obvious) frustration generated recording and editing even the
simplest tasks -two guitar tracks instead of 16 track, software synthesizer
techno spacecowboy newage hippy hop masterpieces (which I'll never actually
get around to)- is almost discouraging sometimes ... the giant , beckoning
cookie jar of being able to things that were impossible on a desktop 15
years ago
sends out a siren call I can't resist . ( a most welcome period. )

Almost to my own destruction, true, but it's also a dream come true , and
as I got
a few minutes of last night as I saw my hands playing better than
they ever have , and I sort of dropped my jaw briefly, casually , so as not
to disturb
or distract them in their efforts (look ma , no choking !) , being able to
play a tricky piece
(to my skill level) competently is a truly dreamy feeling .

I really gotta S.T.F.U. now and do the day (and the dew) ....

DS (hopefully catching up on jibber jabber )



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