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the official 'recording sucks' thread. (pg. 2)
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| Ministerio |
Bah! Same thing here.
In-fact there were times when I didn't plan my set, mixed a pretty good one, ended up listening to it and it sounded GREAT. So what happened? It got deleted and I tried to mix the same track list again, but when playback time came up, I felt like tearing all the knobs out of my mixer.
I can rarely mix a 1 hour set PERFECTLY (to my taste) and the rare time I do, it somehow gets lost! :mad: |
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| Rikki |
Further to my "I am Sasha" post earlier I have the problem that mixing at home to me is pretty boring most of the time whereas in a club its exciting so I invest a lot more into it.
Its also true that a nightclub is very forgiving. Loads of echos, reverb and suchlike cover a multitude of sins.
There is always the option of computer correction tho. If your doing a mix and its all going well then there is a big up just lift the needle on the playing track and skip it back a bit to before you brought the next tune in and try again. Later just edit the WAV in your editor so the error is gone.
Technically I suppose its cheating but its an option.
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| Inertia |
although the 'big soundsystems cover you up' theory is right, one of my first gigs ever, a dude tells me 'btw, can i record it?' i said yeah, but was secretly pissing my pants. i nailed it pretty good.
yet at home, i am teh suck. :/ |
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| Vero |
| dont worry bro, i had this problem for a while. i (as others have suggested) now record everytime i hop on my decks. after a while you get over the nervousness of recording and its all just natural again. |
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| blacknoizybox |
the same blah blah....
but i say - start moving to the beats
forget you'r being recorded
listen to the Dec liveset by Yves Deruyter so you know what a trainwreck is :happy2: |
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| Clovis86 |
I just tell my younger brother to record everything but not tell me.
So when I jump on the decks he does it and I dont even remember it. |
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| Inertia |
the ty thing about it is:
- my PC sucks.
- i'm a broke mother****** with enough money barely for the gear he just bought.
- my diskspace is nearly 100% full.
so, to record, given the suckage of my computer, i must shut down every single program, only to start recording, and have my recorder freeze. it, even tho freezed, still records. however, when i am done, i cant make it stop, so it goes on recording silence. instead of hitting a button, i have to manually terminate the process in the windows task manager. this normally results ina good minute of silence at the end of every set i record, which i then have to cut out.
add to that, that i have to be constantly deleting to make space for sets. it's just such a bunch of crap, not like i can just click it on everytime i say ', let me throw down a couple tracks'.
meh. this sucks. hopefully, i'll get a new PC soon...
and by the way, when i say sucky, i mean:
400MHz Intel Celeron Processor
Total 52GB Disk Space (spread over 3 discs, one 40GB, one 10GB, one 2GB, i had to unplug my CD drive to plug in the another extra hard drive for more space) |
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| Inertia |
btw, any recommendations on a good, not very process intensive recorder?
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| sr126 |
recording does suck. i still get the jitters when i try to record stuff.
the main reason why recording sucks, especially today...
earlier this afternoon i put a dat into my recorder. i was hoping to make a recording something tonite. but as fate would have it... my recorder ate it up. now i have to take the recorder apart, to get the dat out, because won't eject on it's own. i guess i'll try another tape on the 2nd dat machine. |
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| SVGmethod |
| quote: | Originally posted by Inertia
the ty thing about it is:
- my PC sucks.
- i'm a broke mother****** with enough money barely for the gear he just bought.
- my diskspace is nearly 100% full.
so, to record, given the suckage of my computer, i must shut down every single program, only to start recording, and have my recorder freeze. it, even tho freezed, still records. however, when i am done, i cant make it stop, so it goes on recording silence. instead of hitting a button, i have to manually terminate the process in the windows task manager. this normally results ina good minute of silence at the end of every set i record, which i then have to cut out.
add to that, that i have to be constantly deleting to make space for sets. it's just such a bunch of crap, not like i can just click it on everytime i say ', let me throw down a couple tracks'.
meh. this sucks. hopefully, i'll get a new PC soon...
and by the way, when i say sucky, i mean:
400MHz Intel Celeron Processor
Total 52GB Disk Space (spread over 3 discs, one 40GB, one 10GB, one 2GB, i had to unplug my CD drive to plug in the another extra hard drive for more space) |
dude i totally feel you. ive only been able to record one mix on my computer at home because of my computer sucking ass. i had to delete a ton of old live sets from ferry/armin/tiesto/sasha/oakenfold just so i could record. i laughed hysterically reading your post because i too have to close down every single program on my computer so i could make an attempt to record. hahaa. |
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| SVGmethod |
| i record every radio show i do...in the month of december i had 4 shows a week, which equates to atleast 10 hours of programming. I had so much airtime because most of the programmers went home for the holidays. as i said, i recorded every show and i skimmed through each mix in my car whenever i drove and i would make mental notes about what tracks sounded good together and overall what i could do better to become a better dj. i dont even pay attention to the fact that i am recording anymore. i have like 100 CD-R's in my car from all the radio shows ive done. |
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| DJ Nickazz |
Yeah I hate it when I listen to my recorded set..every 0.0001 bpm difference in the beats, when I'm usin the eq it sounds way to rough and more of that ...
I just think by myself the audience notices thinks like that less than you so.. if they like it than who gives a :D |
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