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  6. DAW experts?

    in Musicians' Corner

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    I'm losing the will to live...

    I went and bought a dell computer purely for recording... I upgraded it to 8gb ram, I watched a few videos on optimising windows 7 for DAW's and made the changes they recommended and in theory I should now have a lean mean music making machine?

    Cut a long story short I use reaper with a focusrite 2i4 interface, made a heap of different projects and downloaded a shed load of vsts... All was going well until one day I loaded up reaper and it came up saying that loads of the project was lost, I loaded up every project I had and they were all the same... So they all ended up getting scrapped after days of trying to repair the situation.

    That was a while ago, however recently I decided to give it another bash, I've recorded a really nice version of I'd rather go blind which has a million instruments and effects and while I'm waiting for the singer to get the time it come out I'm shit scared of starting anything else incase I lose my work. Today I decided to jump on and just make some tweaks and when I loaded it up it said my effects were missing and I almost cried! LUCKILY I managed it get it back this time but I have no idea what the hell is going on! It also seems to be jumping and cracking sometimes and CPU is seriously high while it's playing?

    Does anyone have an idea? Can anyone come and help me out? I'll happily pay someone to come and clean up my computer and get it running as it should for recording?

    What I think personally is that I've went in too deep too quick, reaper is complicated! I'm thinking maybe I should go back to a simpler DAW?

    What do you guys think?

    Thanks

  16. Fender blues/hotrod deluxe - wanted

    in Equipment

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    Sure have, few weeks back with a marshall stack, not even gigged and I'm thinking... This isn't half as good as my hotrod was.

    Marshall's sold so I'm ampless, got rehearsal tomorrow so was hoping to pickup something before then. Need to find out if the hotrod speakers are hard wired or if I could connect a head to it at a gig if it malfunctioned though.

  21. Plugging a head into a combo?

    in Musicians' Corner

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    I don't know if this is a stupid question or not...

    I recently got rid of a hotrod deluxe combo and swapped it for a marshall jcm900 head and cab...

    I did this purely based on aesthetics and fear, I love the look of a marshall stack behind me, I also love the fact that if the head fucks up I have a crate power block I can plug in and I'll have no problems!

    I've been thinking and when it comes down to it, your playing is the most important, aesthetically a marshall stack looks good but to my ears, that fender was sweet as a nut. Lugging a big 100watt marshall head and 4x12 to play a small pub is... Let's face it... Ridiculous.

    Oh and it turns out that having a marshall stack doesn't make me sound and play like slash or bonamassa? Total mind blower!

    So what I'm thinking now is I'm going to get a hotrod or a blues deluxe again... However I still have that fear of if it gets damaged on the way to the gig or malfunctions during a show, would I be able to plug the power block into the amp? I'm assuming they all have speaker cable inputs so I'd just unplug the the speaker from the combo and plug the head into it? Then my combo is just a 1x12 cab?

    Is that correct or am I speaking out my arse?

    Thanks.

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