New Recording Gear
The relative quiet here on FC.com has been related to the number of projects that I have undertaken recently.
We moved into this house about two months ago now, and the work continues. We hung up all the pictures this weekend.
We are getting married in October. While this hasn’t caused me an abnormal amount of stress due to the efforts of other people, I will say that piling the registering process on top of everything else is slightly annoying.
On top of that, I have been itching to record some stuff lately. Right before I moved out of my old place, I bought this recording monstrosity.
It is the M-Audio Project Mix I/O and it has 8 simultaneous inputs via FireWire. And this, my friends, is what I have been spending so much time on lately. As you might guess, recording equipment is kind of complex. Mix in the fact that it has to talk to a computer (even with something as user friendly as FireWire is) and everything becomes that much more complex. Also, pile on the fact that the PC that I was running didn’t have XP Service Pack 2 and for some reason didn’t have appropriate USB support for the USB Wireless Network adapter that I decided to use.
I spent countless hours over the last two to three days trying to get it all up and running. The biggest problem, obviously, was my inability to get the wireless network adapter to work, because if I had been able to establish a connection to the internet then almost everything else takes care of itself. That way, I have access to drivers, help files, message boards and FAQ’s. But for whatever reason it just wouldn’t work.
Then last night, I finally decided to try the least elegant of all solutions. Disconnect the PC, take it upstairs, connect it via ethernet cable, get it all updated including the drivers for the wireless network card, and THEN take it downstairs.
Duh. I wasted all that time because I didn’t want to carry the PC all the way upstairs to my office where the network connection is. Sometimes my laziness shows no rationality what-so-ever.
The good news is that it is up and running. Now I can record all the new music that the band has been practicing. At least there will be a permanent record of what we are up to musically.
Oh, and I should be able to post here a bit more frequently now.
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Craig you really are a geek!
This just in…
And really, I help you out with my geekdom, so don’t complain.
I’m pumped to rock that baby out. Have you laid down any tracks yet?
Just some test stuff… I will get more of a chance tonight.
The other thing that I forgot to mention is that I continue to take piano lessons which is also keeping me busy.