Dumb stuff you do in the studio

[squatski]

Originally Posted by Brassica

Look at the right-hand corner of the MPC window to check what the time is.

lol to check the actual time? :p

[offki]

Originally Posted by drewwebsteraudio

Demo a loop in Superior Drummer. Press space bar and wonder why not only did the loop not stop, but my DAW started to play.

Repeat x amount of times in the same sitting.

I do that with other programs, constantly pressing space bar and master controller play wondering whats going on, over and over.

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[ozy]

Originally Posted by Deleted Userc

Lately I have found some twisted sense of pleasure in not saving anything.

I never save.

All I earn, I spend in gear and booze

[wwjd]

waste valuable time trying to coming up with dumb stuff ways to do things, when just doing them is better and quicker.

[Apprendista]

Not documenting what I do.

I tend to start a new thing from scratch, record a bunch of tracks in the heat of the moment, come up with some fancy instrument parts, and forget to take any notes whatsoever on what patches or effects settings I used, and also forget to write down the fancy parts. Then when I continue I have to re-record parts because I no longer remember the sound parameters, and possibly also transcribe them first because I no longer remember how to play them.

[Don Edgar]

Testing sending sysex patch data to my Matrix 6, type wrong number, **** half of the patches up. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

[Mefistophelees]

Buy a Kurzweil.

Buy an old Zip drive to plug into the Kurzweil's SCSI port.

No SCSI terminator switch, weird.

Plugged it in and could suddenly smell burning. WTF ???


Check Zip drive and discover it's a parallel port drive, not SCSI

[oobwa ee]

I wonder why none of my midi tweaks are being recorded and realise Im playing my Roland SH09

[charlieclouser]

This was years ago in the Mac Plus era of "Desk Accessories" and "Font/DA Mover" (1980's), but....

Getting baked in the studio with a buddy while I'm tweaking a sequence on the Mac - he asks me to pass the lighter - I start looking under the Apple menu for it...

[Ninja_Edit]

Stockpiling rubbish.

[networkacid]

Originally Posted by charlieclouser

This was years ago in the Mac Plus era of "Desk Accessories" and "Font/DA Mover" (1980's), but....

Getting baked in the studio with a buddy while I'm tweaking a sequence on the Mac - he asks me to pass the lighter - I start looking under the Apple menu for it...

LMAO!!!

[mavenmusic]

Clean my room before I do anything about music lol. My room needs to be tidy for my track to be tidy and neat.

[sorgenkind]

Complain about the mess I have in the back corner of my studio but never put those damn carton boxes and bags full of cables in storage.

Realize I the synth part needs reverb, but then leave the loop running half hour while I contemplate the sunset I see from my studio window (happens when I’m stoned). The transition from blue to purple of the sky during sunset is very special to me, so I easily get distracted by it.
After finishing contemplating the sunset (in the meantime it’s almost dark outside) I’ll record a conga loop to spice up the groove, or add some other synth parts, record the song and call it a day.
Listen to it at home and realize the synth part is actually dry and need some reverb.

Forget to disengage the MONO button on my desk at the end of the session, then come back one day later and wonder what’s wrong with the pan pots (mixer sold, this shouldn’t happen anymore)

Don’t even get me started with the patchbay

[xanderbeanz]

The dumbest thing i do is record at 16-bit 48000hz on a Soundblaster Audigy soundcard like it's still 1999. Maybe i'll buy something decent one of these days! To be fair, the drums are tracked on a Korg D888 thing which may have better quality inputs (iunno?!), and most of the synth and guitar parts are loaded with effects which might cover up the inherent ass-ness of my recordings.

Those Akai EIE I/O boxes look kinda nice, I like a VU meter.

[Mr Poppet]

Plays Evolver for 5-10 minutes jammin out to a beat.

Fall completely in love with it all over again.

Reaches for the filter

Local control is off and Diva demo is open on PC.

Goes to bed weeping.

[Rudiger]

Going barefoot with an old guitar string on the floor.

[deft_bonz]

Cutting a power cable with a claw while it's plugged, when I just touched iits end 1 hour ago and receiving a nice wake up e-shock... *BRATZING*

[dubmunkey]

Originally Posted by charlieclouser

This was years ago in the Mac Plus era of "Desk Accessories" and "Font/DA Mover" (1980's), but....

Getting baked in the studio with a buddy while I'm tweaking a sequence on the Mac - he asks me to pass the lighter - I start looking under the Apple menu for it...

You numpty you should know its win only :D

[disco judas]

Originally Posted by dj2

..not finish a track and save it to the folder with hundreds of other patterns that aren't complete. Start a new pattern and do the same thing over again.

[ozy]

Originally Posted by Ninja_Edit

Stockpiling rubbish.

is bad.

occasionally getting into a flame exchange about the same rubbish on gearslutz (because somebody dared to say it's rubbish)

is worse

[LimpyLoo]

(Sometimes) using long tedious "workarounds" instead of just learning the quick easy correct way.

[D_Davis]

Originally Posted by ozy

I never save.

All I earn, I spend in gear and booze

LOL.
Very good.

[D_Davis]

Lately I've been suffering from some extreme writer's block - for about a year. I wrote and recorded 6 albums in two years, and now...I've got nothin'. However, I'm still playing music almost every day.

But I'm always starting albums that go no where, so in my main directory I have like 15 files called some variation of NEW ALBUM! and all of them are comprised of one lame track of some stupid MIDI sequence. And I keep doing it, over and over. Shit, I did it last night, and I'll probably go home tonight and hate what I did.

[TheBrightSide]

This weekend I recorded a vocal on a new condensor microphone.
Upon playback it sounded just awful. A waste of money.
Then I worked out I had the mic facing the wrong way, so I was singing into the back of it.

So if you want to record a lo-fi vocal, this is a good way to do it.

[boreg]

Originally Posted by TheBrightSide

This weekend I recorded a vocal on a new condensor microphone.
Upon playback it sounded just awful. A waste of money.
Then I worked out I had the mic facing the wrong way, so I was singing into the back of it.

So if you want to record a lo-fi vocal, this is a good way to do it.

[nebelfrau]

Playing the MIDI keys wondering like hell why nothing is receiving signal....

It's off.

[deft_bonz]

Originally Posted by nebelfrau

Playing the MIDI keys wondering like hell why nothing is receiving signal....

It's off.

To me this happens when playing MIDI like hell on a buss

[nebelfrau]

Originally Posted by deft_bonz

To me this happens when playing MIDI like hell on a buss

Rad!
Yeah, it only really happens to me when I cover the big LCD of the keyboard with something as that is the only indicator that power is on and I am so used to never to turning it off.

-Cool, sampler is on, but no MIDI light flashes, hmmm...
-Press more keys, scratch head.
-Make sure DAW routing is correct. It is, still no signal.

After I've followed every cable, I pick up my phone to check some email and there it is.. a big glaring LCD that is OFF.... EL FFFUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAA

[squatski]

dont know how many people here still use floppy disks, but, I think out of all the dumb stuff I do in the studio is not lable floppies.