New Build Part Deux (Warning!!!)
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From: Here In Oregon on 15 Feb 2010 18:04 For all of you folks who got jealous regarding my newest computer build you can rest now and feel good about yourselves once again. I want to blame this on Romy and Michelle (movie) but my situation is bigger than my huge "post its" mistake. My problems are ten fold and I am somewhere between purgatory and hell. Feel any better and you know who you are. I am only taking the time to write this to warn others not to make some of the same mistakes I have made. 1. All of my computer wiring to my old studio computer and my audio gear I marked with "post its" and wrapped it around the cables to mark where they go. My studio is professionally wired by someone else and most cables cannot be traced without tedious removal of "Panduit" parts, etc. Most all of my "post its" fell off as the glue was insufficient. I watched that movie last week and when I went to mark my cables I thought "post its". They failed me. Bad idea and a huge mistake. 2. The engineer's engineer that I flew out here for two months a few years ago marked all of my cable with white tape and used a CD marking pen. Most all of the writing has failed me and is blurry and I cannot make heads or tails of what the markings say. 3. My RME 9652 and my 9632 for Win7 64 bit is WDM and everything looks great but the settings are all foreign now to me as I have been using ASIO all of these years and I cannot configure it correctly. I am getting sound using a SPDIF out but *recording* forgetaboutit. Too complicated to even explain. 4. Win 7 sounds, devices and settings looks great also but foreign to me as well. 5. My 01v96 version 2 has three downloads for Win7 64bit and "Studio Manager" looks foreign to me and I have no idea how to set it up. 6. Yamaha help opens up my Windows media center with nothing. <giggle> 7. I am impatient and do not take the time to read manuals and set-up instructions and when I went to install the RME and Yamaha gear I just flew by the seat of my pants like I always do so even though stuff looks installed right, I am questioning whether my complicated installs were done right. 8. Win 7 64 bit is foreign to me when it comes to troubleshooting. 9. I cannot even decide which audio recording program to go with for the long haul since I am starting over and fresh. Sonar, Pro Tools, Cubase, Reaper. I do input monitoring and Sonar and Reaper could not handle anything less than 128 (3ms). I noticed that my RME WDM driver goes down to 32(0.7ms) and with my new rock solid computer I was hoping I could get down to that or at the least to 64 (1.5). Questions??? 1. Do I burn down the studio because I don't have time for this and am traveling a lot this year? 2. Is there someone out there knowledgeable with the aforementioned gear that wants to visit Oregon and get paid along with all expenses? I can add some additional work to make it profitable for you. I need help bad. Even if you know someone that might be interested please reply or have them reply to my hereinoregon(a)hotmail.com address. I will start looking locally tomorrow for someone smarter than me to help me get out of this abyss. I am still stoked about this computer I built which I am using to type this and I feel confident that I will eventually get to the bottom of everything. It is just that there are so many problematic variables based on all of the above hitting me all at once. You have been warned! HIO -- Proverbs Ch.18 Vs.17 Any story sounds true until someone sets the record straight.
From: "Dave "Mod Bod" Modisette" on 15 Feb 2010 18:45 Here In Oregon wrote: > For all of you folks who got jealous regarding my newest computer build > you can rest now and feel good about yourselves once again. I want to > blame this on Romy and Michelle (movie) but my situation is bigger than > my huge "post its" mistake. My problems are ten fold and I am somewhere > between purgatory and hell. Feel any better and you know who you are. > I am only taking the time to write this to warn others not to make some > of the same mistakes I have made. > > 1. All of my computer wiring to my old studio computer and my audio gear > I marked with "post its" and wrapped it around the cables to mark where > they go. My studio is professionally wired by someone else and most > cables cannot be traced without tedious removal of "Panduit" parts, > etc. Most all of my "post its" fell off as the glue was insufficient. > I watched that movie last week and when I went to mark my cables I > thought "post its". They failed me. Bad idea and a huge mistake. > <SNIP> You have my sympathy. Every time I go behind my mix desk to change out a piece of gear it becomes a "weekend project" where ... because I'm already back here - so I might as well change this or that... The next thing I know, I'm digging through one of three plastic tubs full of cables looking for an RCA to 3/8" reverse grounded DIN plug adapter for 50 cycle versions of pre 1990 Tascam yada, yada, yada. ;) -- Dave "Mod Bod" Modisette http://www.gatortraks.com/forum http://www.gatortraks.com
From: Here In Oregon on 15 Feb 2010 19:41 Update. I just got my 01v96 version 2 up and running and it is completely synced to my new computer in Win 7 64 bit. Next!
From: Bob Donald on 15 Feb 2010 20:41 Truer words have never been spoken Dave! I just want to know who's climbing behind there and tangling everything up when I'm not looking, because I sure didnt leave it that way when I set it up! Sorry to hear that HIO, I was going to post that my experience with almost the same build has been very positive, but then again I'm not using mine for my DAW. The machine really is flying, but I do need to kick it up to 8 gigs <at least!>. Right now my main focus is using it for virtual machines. Hope you get it sorted out without too much pain! Bob > You have my sympathy. Every time I go behind my mix desk to change out a > piece of gear it becomes a "weekend project" where ... because I'm already > back here - so I might as well change this or that... > > The next thing I know, I'm digging through one of three plastic tubs full > of cables looking for an RCA to 3/8" reverse grounded DIN plug adapter for > 50 cycle versions of pre 1990 Tascam yada, yada, yada. ;) > > -- > Dave "Mod Bod" Modisette > > http://www.gatortraks.com/forum > http://www.gatortraks.com
From: Here In Oregon on 15 Feb 2010 21:28
"Dave "Mod Bod" Modisette" > You have my sympathy. Every time I go behind my mix desk to change out > a piece of gear it becomes a "weekend project" where ... because I'm > already back here - so I might as well change this or that... > > The next thing I know, I'm digging through one of three plastic tubs > full of cables looking for an RCA to 3/8" reverse grounded DIN plug > adapter for 50 cycle versions of pre 1990 Tascam yada, yada, yada. ;) > > -- > Dave "Mod Bod" Modisette > > http://www.gatortraks.com/forum > http://www.gatortraks.com Thanks Dave, you made me feel better and that I am not alone. ;-) |