Lessons from a n00b buying recording crap......

[Bob Savage]

MAybe I was wrong saying a-d converters.......not sure HAs something to do with the engine of the software, Bob or Ed would know what exactly makes one better than another. There is Samplitude SE out there that Ed said has the same basic design, some mag was giving it away for free last year.

You may be thinking of the summing algorhythms. Samp SE has the same audio engine as its big brothers (Samp/Seq). I think they just released SE 9. For around $100, it's quite a bargain.

 

[Digital Jams]

I have also heard that Samplitude has the best a-d converters but I thought that by owning Cubase VST that I would be ready to go with Cubase4 Studio......man was I wrong

AD/DA conversions are done via hardware.

Yeah, while looking at my audio dock last night I figured that out.

If you were not so busy fixing sigs you could have answered these questions yesterday ya know.

SampSE 9 for $100? That is a very good price indeed.

 

[Jakem]

1) If someone tells you not to buy BFD and get EZDrummer do not ask questions.

2) Unless you are mixing a gazillion tracks you do NOT need full versions of Cubase, Samplitude, Sonar, whatever....way overkill and huge learning curve.

3) Monitors...go BIG x2.

4) Save up a little longer and buy larger audio monitors.

5) RAM RAM.....oh yeah........MORE RAM

6) Get a comfy chair....your arse is going to need it.

It took me 2 hours to get the first Cubase4 Studio tutorial working last night Between latency settings, VST paths, input and output settings and figuring out WTF each button was a 3 Jose Golden adventure alone

BFD.......ugh Having to run FL and get BFD into that AND get the programming down is like sticking toothpicks under your nails.

If I get this crap sorted out and my machine crashes someone will die................

Hang in there, Scott!

 

[tweed]

screw recording. I just want a new Avatar Vintage 4x12 with Hellatone 30's

 

[Bob Savage]

If you were not so busy fixing sigs you could have answered these questions yesterday ya know.

SampSE 9 for $100? That is a very good price indeed.

I tried staying out of this n00b thread intentionally but could no longer resist once I saw your post about the converters.

I'm fairly certain v8 was around $100 and believe so v9 shouldn't be any/much more...

I'm not sure what the conversion rate is, but here's the purchase page:

http://www.samplitude.com/eng/sam/se_bestellen.html

 

[Telephant]

screw recording. I just want a new Avatar Vintage 4x12 with Hellatone 30's

hellatone 30s? Nah man you need those EVH *cough*heritage greenbacks*cough* Celestions for the true vintage tone!!!

 

[tweed]

screw recording. I just want a new Avatar Vintage 4x12 with Hellatone 30's

hellatone 30s? Nah man you need those EVH *cough*heritage greenbacks*cough* Celestions for the true vintage tone!!!

Im not sure I can bring myself to cough up the cash for those at the moment. Plus I want to be able to use the cab with my XXX. I think the XXX would make those speakers meltdown lol.

 

[StevieRaveOn]

screw recording. I just want a new Avatar Vintage 4x12 with Hellatone 30's

hellatone 30s? Nah man you need those EVH *cough*heritage greenbacks*cough* Celestions for the true vintage tone!!!

Let me know how selling children is going... I can't bring myself to pay that much when I've such good stuff come out of your GB RIs and others also, AND the fact that you can order custom Webers for ~$99. I've got no ill will toward Celestion at all, they make a great product, just in the situations I'm going to be putting my stuff in and through, I can't justify speakers that steep.

 

[tweed]

screw recording. I just want a new Avatar Vintage 4x12 with Hellatone 30's

hellatone 30s? Nah man you need those EVH *cough*heritage greenbacks*cough* Celestions for the true vintage tone!!!

Let me know how selling children is going... I can't bring myself to pay that much when I've such good stuff come out of your GB RIs and others also, AND the fact that you can order custom Webers for ~$99. I've got no ill will toward Celestion at all, they make a great product, just in the situations I'm going to be putting my stuff in and through, I can't justify speakers that steep.

I hear ya bro. I can say that they sound freaking magical when combined with the 5153. I haven't heard them with another amp yet but im betting they wouldn't suck lol. A new cab purchase is a few months off for me anyways. got to much sheet going on at the moment.

 

[StevieRaveOn]

I hear ya bro. I can say that they sound freaking magical when combined with the 5153. I haven't heard them with another amp yet but im betting they wouldn't suck lol. A new cab purchase is a few months off for me anyways. got to much sheet going on at the moment.

Werd bro, my gear buying was already over-extended and now it seems I'm going to Europe on the 30th, so it will be a while before I buying anything else for "fun"... I've got to get this 1959 off to be modded, got to get at least a set of GB RIs in a 4x12, get my rack finalized, new complementary pedalboard setup, and upgrade my Axe FX. Not cheap, but a lot of s**t I was suppose to already have done for the band and it's getting about crunch-time now.

Man, I'd like to find someone experienced in wiring racks that's down here, but I haven't run across anyone yet and expect I'm gonna be hating life come ground loops.

 

[Anonymous]

I have been using the fully liscenced version of nuendo for years as a glorified tape machine more or less...

totally mixing and patching in effects through a seperate mixing counsle

extreme overkill..


I actually do record midi and program with the sequencer but Cubase Studio would probobly work fine for me....


if you want simple and effective ditch your softweare and get Mackie tracktion...

super easy to use once you get rolling...it is mac and pc compatible and just rules for the "one man band" type of stuff...rewire it to reason for flstudio and you have a cheap powerful system...

 

[Stratboy151]

next week im getting a new rig. will be purchasing a new imac and running pro tools on it. still undecided on a firewire interface..

 

[OneArmedScissor]

5) RAM RAM.....oh yeah........MORE RAM

I know you use them newfangled drum programmer thingers that eat it alive, but I've still never needed more than 1GB myself. I think I have 30 tracks in what I'm working on right now, and I'm not sure the entire program even uses 200MB of RAM with all that going.

One time I used 800MB when I loaded an absolutely stupid amount of very long wave files into Fruity Loops all at once, but that's as far as I've ever been able to push it, and there's no reason for me to do anything like that to begin with.

So, IN SUMMATION, it depends on what you're doing.

 

[Digital Jams]

Well Vista is using 270 meg right out of the gates

YOu are right, the loading of big kits with BFD can take 1gig if you go nuts with the room and then load each drum into its own channel in FL and you will be over 1 gig no problem.

Freaking Cubase4 is killing me and now waiting for n00b how to dvd to show up