Guitar Showdown :Round 1

Necrovore · Post by **Necrovore** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:34 pm

Ok Gents sorry for the delay. Well here we go with the first of the showdowns. I hope that this turns out to be a fun venture for us all. Remember, we are not looking for primo quality recordings. Just submit whatever you can do, as we are looking for the best spin or copy of material. And now we begin.

For the first round I will start off and make it easy on you all. First round is to take 3 AC/DC songs and make them segue into eachother. Keep the clip to 3-4 minutes. Song choices are yours.

Remember to upload them to a fileserver where we can go listen to them easily. Voting starts on January 3, 2005

Keep all discussions regarding Round 1 in this thread.

Good Luck.

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:41 pm

what do we do....just parts of some solos?

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:42 pm

Was it digitalsoundplanet.com that George and some of you other guys used to host sound files that we can all access?

Necrovore · Post by **Necrovore** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:31 pm

5150loveeddie wrote:what do we do....just parts of some solos?

If you want, or song riffs. Your choice.

Necrovore · Post by **Necrovore** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:32 pm

Flames1950 wrote:Was it digitalsoundplanet.com that George and some of you other guys used to host sound files that we can all access?

Yeah I think so, thats who I will upload to unless I have some extra space on my domain server.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:50 am

Did anyone give this a shot?
I got the family outta the house, early enough to make a go sans attenuator......only to find that my Cakewalk Sonar install had dropout problems about every 20-30 seconds into recording, locking up the system!! AAARRRGGHHH!!!
I don't know if it didn't like my HD configuration, had driver issues, or what the hell was up. Looks like I get to reconfigure the whole mess.
Also looks like I'm DOA this round.
PS--anyone that has dealt with dropout problems with Cakewalk before throw me some ideas. I remember having playback dropout problems with Pro Audio 9 when loading on too many effects (more of a processor issue there methinks, that was a 600MHz P3) but I've never had this much trouble recording two tracks dry before!! I built this machine a while back specifically for recording -- 2.4GHz P4, 512Mb RAM, on an Intel 845 chipset, with the Soundblaster Audigy 2 soundcard and an M-Audio Delta 44 recording interface. I had the version of Cubasis that came with the Audigy that I was going to try, but like much pre-bundled software it only wants to work with the hardware it's sold with, not my M-Audio interface.

Necrovore · Post by **Necrovore** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:15 am

I use Nuendo and the only times that I have problems like this(Nuendo calls them synchronization errors) it is because I would have too much going on in the background. I was not going to participate in this round as I started it and didn't want anyone to feel like I had an edge on any of this. If you want we can just move everything up a couple of weeks.

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 11:36 am

Go with a MAC and all your problems will be fixed!!!!!!!

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:16 pm

Necrovore wrote:
Flames1950 wrote:Was it digitalsoundplanet.com that George and some of you other guys used to host sound files that we can all access?
Yeah I think so, thats who I will upload to unless I have some extra space on my domain server.

I use soundclick.com. Its another free site thats pretty easy to use.
my site - http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/danschepisemusic.htm
I havent loaded anything up in a long time accept some stuff I did with a side project. The bad horn playing in the Stylistics cover is from the lead singer trying to sing and play trumpet on the breaks. Its pretty funny. He's a huge guy. The sax player is amazing. This track is nothign compared to the strange and great things Ive seen him do.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:37 pm

5150loveeddie wrote:Go with a MAC and all your problems will be fixed!!!!!!!

Sure, and all my games could play at half the speed and one-third the framerates too.....cool.....

Zoso · Post by **Zoso** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:47 pm

Flames1950 wrote:Did anyone give this a shot?
I got the family outta the house, early enough to make a go sans attenuator......only to find that my Cakewalk Sonar install had dropout problems about every 20-30 seconds into recording, locking up the system!! AAARRRGGHHH!!!
I don't know if it didn't like my HD configuration, had driver issues, or what the hell was up. Looks like I get to reconfigure the whole mess.
Also looks like I'm DOA this round.
PS--anyone that has dealt with dropout problems with Cakewalk before throw me some ideas. I remember having playback dropout problems with Pro Audio 9 when loading on too many effects (more of a processor issue there methinks, that was a 600MHz P3) but I've never had this much trouble recording two tracks dry before!! I built this machine a while back specifically for recording -- 2.4GHz P4, 512Mb RAM, on an Intel 845 chipset, with the Soundblaster Audigy 2 soundcard and an M-Audio Delta 44 recording interface. I had the version of Cubasis that came with the Audigy that I was going to try, but like much pre-bundled software it only wants to work with the hardware it's sold with, not my M-Audio interface.

That is almost the exact specs of my system, although I have 768 RAM. I use Sonar, and usually don't have problems, so I don't think it is your system. Make sure you turn off as many background tasks as you can and if your card has an ASIO driver, use that instead of MME or WDM. Also, if you go under the tools menu and go to Audio, you can adjust latency and buffer size. Sometimes you have to experiment to find a good setting. That is also where you select between ASIO, WDM, and MME. Also, make sure you have the latest drivers for your soundcard. You may even find some info on the card maker's website about the best settings to use with different audio programs. I hope this helps.

Which version of Sonar is it , BTW?

5150loveeddie · Post by **5150loveeddie** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:06 pm

Untrue budy but if you think so.......... music wise, recording, video editing, etc etc ....MAC will be 1000 time better than a PC microshit crap and I'm not talking about all that adware shit, virus, hackers also, etc. that a MAC is not really effected with if use with Linux!!!!

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:08 pm

It's the original Sonar XL.
I can't remember but I may be running the WDM drivers for the Sound Blaster Audigy. I'll try the ASIO drivers instead.
I can check again for driver updates too, but I haven't bothered in a while because it seemed like both Creative and M-Audio are pretty pokey and don't release new drivers often. Not like nVidia and ATI do for graphics cards!!

Zoso · Post by **Zoso** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:02 am

The original Sonar may not support ASIO, I can't remember. If you have ASIO drivers installed and they don't show up in the Driver Selection pulldown menu, then it doesn't support them. That is located in the audio section under the Tools menu, the same page where you select the playback and recording timing master. Something is telling me they didn't support ASIO until Sonar 2, but I could be mistaken.

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:07 am

May not matter, I don't see an updated driver for the Audigy 2 for anything but WDM. Same for M-Audio I think.