How To Get Into Trouble

[billroper]

Read about this nifty cool toy. Post about it on Live Journal. Wait for daisy_knotwise who has -- for a variety of good reasons -- serious qualms about digital hard-disk recording to read this post. :)

"But, Gretchen, I was just looking."

"Well, put your eyes back into your head and keep walking on past."

Comments

[tnatj.livejournal.com]

"Put the toy down, Roper. Nice and easy. Slowly. That's right. Leave it there, and now nobody will get hurt."

[rinioth.livejournal.com]

Looks good at first glance.

Why does G have this thing about hard disk recording of music?

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

In all the years that we have been recording we have had one (1 uno singular
lonely, you get the idea) tape cassette fail. When it did we were able to recover all but one song from that cassette.
On the other hand, I have seen many hard disk failures. (tell them about the Seagate Bookends, Roper)And I don't even mess with computers all that much. Why do we have to have two hard disks and a DVD burner when one cassette tape will do?
Then there was the scanner. We had this cute little flatbed scanner. Didn't use it often, but when we needed it, it was there. Until Roper upgraded his machine and discovered there were no drivers for the scanner any more. So we replaced a perfectly good piece of equipment because we were lacking a few lines of softwear.
I am already in terror of the day when Roper comes home and says we have to replace the whole Studio because Microsoft says so.

GHR

[rinioth.livejournal.com]

Yes, reliability may have been an issue in previous times. However, the whole point of moving to digital recording is to get better quality and more importantly to get less loss of quality when re-mixing from individual tracks to groups and then to the final mix.

Digital recording is inherently loss-less and noise-less, which has got to be a good thing. Of course, the old adage of you don't get something for nothing applies - so it's not quite so easy, or cheap.

[billroper]

And we do record digitally using our ADATs.

But Gretchen's right about hard disk failures. The new studio computer (which I set up with mirrored hard disks) had one of the two disks fail within six months of getting the beast. Fortunately, I didn't lose anything since the disk was mirrored, but if it hadn't been, I would have been livid.

Hard disks are getting cheaper and cheaper, but the warranty period is getting shorter and shorter. Even the J series Western Digital drives seem to have had their warranty reduced from three years to one.