Well the studio isn’t completely up and running yet, however we did some shopping yesterday, and came home with a Line 6 Pod XT Live. I’m not exactly sure why anyone would want to cart around a guitar stack and the variety of pedals required when something like this exists. The sound out of it is just phenomenal to say the least. I think I can safely say that any guitar is taken care of now.
We also picked up a Behringer Ultracurve Pro DEQ2496 to “replace” the DSP8024 we had in the rack. Initially I was hesitant to say we should replace it, but after hearing the difference, and knowing that we could use it on a trade for another Lexicon MPX 1, there really is no question.
The only downside right now, is the external hard drive is shot. I got everything loaded onto it, but when I went to save a track after remapping the midi outputs, it barfed. I think the file allocation table sector is corrupted, and even though I ran numerous checks against it, it still failed. I can honestly say I’ll never pick up another LACIE drive. I’m going to try hooking it up to the PC and using the tools on it in hopes of getting some use out of it. So I’m not looking at Glyph’s product line to see what will be the best option. I’m about ready to ditch the whole firewire route and go scsi. We’ll see though.
So the hope is to have everything working by later this week. I’m hoping there aren’t any issues with recording since we’ve back on the internal drive. That’s why we originally moved to the external drive.
you and me both. i’m feeling pretty edgy at this point as i haven’t put any ideas down for well over two weeks now. well i take that back, i spent what little time i could starting to reconstruct simulated stimulation, which went from 140 bpms to 157 bpms, and is a hell of a lot edgier. probably the closest to drum and bass, but it’s still got a 4/4 beat to it. i was already thinking of some changes to what we’d done as it didn’t sound “synthetic” enough.
and the nord is going to take me some time to learn. all sorts of craziness with it (really thick sounds and a lot of tweakability), but it’s weird for storing. it’s just “numbers” assigned to slots. i guess it’s like having two of the jp-8000s but with a better virtual analog engine.
What he said . . . .