Worst Experience In the lab???

[Greg Savage]

not sure if this has been talked about

Mine would have to Be Working on Session for 14 Hours Saving the Project.. Coming back to it at a later time only to Find out that my Work has Been Distroyed odd File error and there was no way to get the work back.. i lost alot of $$ in the process and was yelled at because i didn't make Copies of the Work

anyone care to share

 

[Cold Truth]

ohhh man i have had this happen many times, and to some good work too.

recently, almost all of my cubase files had somehow had all of the vst instrument data erased- leaving ony the midi data.

in theory, i should have been ok anyways, but i lost all of my effect settings in sampletank.
i'm sure we all know how hard it is to recreate an effect setting exactly. much props to anyone who can, but for me it never sounds the exact same even if you dial up the same numbers.

i had created a very convincing WAH guitar which was the chorus for a damn good track. think willie hutch, but i composed it myself. it got excellent reviews, and i wound up giving it to another member in exchange for one of his tracks.....

it took me half a saturday JUST TO GET THE DAMN GUITAR STRAIGHT, and believeable, and it suprised everyone to hear that it wasnt a sample, and that i had actually created the sound and riff on a keyboard. thats the biggest compliemnt for me.

i have labored, long and hard, and i have yet to recreate that part, and unfortunately, that was the part that made the song what it was.

 

[Formant024]

Hard disk failure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... there goes everything. Its a good thing, bad thing situation.

Brain error, overwrite your last good version with a empty project.

I did have a board once my gf knocked over, busted the transformer and melted the psu.

 

[Guevara]

BREAKiNG THE NEEDLE oN MY MANS TURNTABLE AND THEN NoT BEiNG ABLE To GET THE CARTRiDGE oFF BECAUSE THE SLoTS oN THE DAMN SCREWS ARE So THiN, AND NoT BEiNG ABLE To Do SHiT WiTH THESE RECoRDS i JUST BoUGHT.

RELEASE;

 

[Fade]

Hmmm... I'd have to say the time when I first started making beats with software and I couldn't back anything up since I didn't have a burner - and one day I come home, boot up the PC and Windows was totally fucked. I had to re-install everything and lost all my work.

Another would be a DJ'ing experience. I was preparing for a battle for months and the day of the competition I was practicing and I had to switch a record real quick, but this time I went too fast and my wrist smacked into the tonearm, needle goes right across the record, big scratch across it, and the needle itself was bent. I had no backup routine, no backup needles, no extra copy of that record. I learned my lesson that day!

 

[Cleverwon]

Well, theres the time that i dropped my .22 and caught a slug in my ball bag.


























Nah just playin.

 

[StressWon]

L M A O!!!!! Clev!

 

[The Bastard]

didnt happen to me (luckily) but whoever was working the mixing board one day at school did not press the D button in on the channel with the kick drum, the kick kick drum was not recorded and the whole song sounded goofy

 

[DJFANTOM]

Damn worst lab experience ? Gotta be like 2 years ago .... This guy my bro knew was a ill ass freestyler.... 1 of the best in queens... And he was workin the mixtape circuit.... I've been tryin for months to get him to the lab and lay a few joints down..... Well finally he came thru and brought 2 of his peeps... And they spit some of the illest rhymes you ever heard. While I was cuttin up beats on the tables ...... Well stupid me didn't save the session..... I had a cheap digi cam.... Took they pic with it ..... They wanted a copy of it ..... So I hook the cam to the comp .... And the digi cam makes the comp crash..... I lost thw whole session.... Im mad as hell... I still have the pics tho. Lol.....



Another bad experience... I learned how to correctly save in Reason the hard way. ..... I can't open Most of my 1st beats I made in Reason ...... I didn't know about the " song self contain setting" so I never used it.... Moved some folders with samples around tryna organize my comp.... And now reason can't find the files...


ALL REASON USERS if you don't know bout the " song self contain setting" use it. To my knowledge it saves a copy of the samples and sounds you used in the beat with the reason file so if you move the oriinal sample reason can still open the file.

 

[Shortaay]

probably the worst experience I had was when I was in the studio at Uni... it was a brand new setup *with the exception of the mixing desk* the desk was an old StudioMaster desk... so because of the A-D conversion you had to make sure you turned off the aux sends when you were mixing and put em on when you were recording, if you didn't it'd cause Digital Feed back THE MOST PAINFUL NOISE EVER... if you've heard it you'll understand.. well I caused the feedback to happen one time, and blew the 2 brand new monitor speakers that they had bought THAT DAY... lol..

I was banned from recordin in the studio for 3 weeks...

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

Damn...

Another bad experience... I learned how to correctly save in Reason the hard way. ..... I can't open Most of my 1st beats I made in Reason ...... I didn't know about the " song self contain setting" so I never used it.... Moved some folders with samples around tryna organize my comp.... And now reason can't find the files...
ALL REASON USERS if you don't know bout the " song self contain setting" use it. To my knowledge it saves a copy of the samples and sounds you used in the beat with the reason file so if you move the oriinal sample reason can still open the file.

OH MAN! that's a total downer...
All Reason Users: use the File->Song Self-Contain Settings... to adjust which samples are included with your song! Make sure you change the "Song Self-Contain Settings" so that any custom sound samples are included in the saved ".rns" file!
don't forget to do this! :dj:

Peace,
Wings

 

[Copenhagen]

OH MAN! that's a total downer...
All Reason Users: use the File->Song Self-Contain Settings... to adjust which samples are included with your song! Make sure you change the "Song Self-Contain Settings" so that any custom sound samples are included in the saved ".rns" file!
don't forget to do this! :dj:

Peace,
Wings

If you know this, there is no point in using the song self contan setting. Just don't move your samples around after you've used them in a track. You ask yourself, "why not do it anyway?"...well, the self contain setting includes all the samples in your mix (apart from Refill sounds), making the file size much larger and thereby quickly eating up your hard disk space e.g. if you use the same bass in 50 songs, you'll have it archived in 50 songs, instead of just having a reference to it's place in your reason file. Just my 2 cents...

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

Yes But...

If you know this, there is no point in using the song self contan setting. Just don't move your samples around after you've used them in a track. You ask yourself, "why not do it anyway?"...well, the self contain setting includes all the samples in your mix (apart from Refill sounds), making the file size much larger and thereby quickly eating up your hard disk space e.g. if you use the same bass in 50 songs, you'll have it archived in 50 songs, instead of just having a reference to it's place in your reason file. Just my 2 cents...

You speak the truth; but there are some exceptions:

1. if somebody wants to backup his material he better self contain his ish.

2. if people collaborate

3. if you have a big Hard Disk, i'd still self contain my songs (just to make sure...). 'cause if you accidentally delete a sample (or something like that), you'll still be able to play the .rns...

One,
Wings
.

 

[Formant024]

^^^^ I thinks it's only smart to work that way, I do the same with FL, just save everything directly to zip and save updated versions a la trackv1, trackv2. This way you can also always step back if you mess up.

 

[bigdmakintrax]

Ok here is a Recent experience.......I accidentally Knocked one of my event 20/20 monitors over onto my Triton X and broke 8 of the keys....this was about a month ago.....I was sick man.

 

[iLLVA1]

Went online on FL website with a bootleg FL program open and the website caught it somehow. it put a lock and password on all my beats and screwed up my FL program so i couldnt use it anymore.

 

[Cleverwon]

Ok here is a Recent experience.......I accidentally Knocked one of my event 20/20 monitors over onto my Triton X and broke 8 of the keys....this was about a month ago.....I was sick man.

Awwwwww shit! That mustve hurt. Did you get the keys fixed? Can you get the keys fixed?

 

[bigdmakintrax]

Luckily there is a Korg repair center about 20 minutes away......man look I thought they would take weeks......I took it in there on a Thursday and it was fixed and I picked it up the next day.....apparently triton keys get broken a lot, if you pull one out it has this lil contact point that if you press the key down too hard it will break right off at least on the 61 key board I have.........they had them in stock man....it cost like 200 dollars though man.....but you cannot even tell it was ever damaged...

 

[RigorMortis]

You speak the truth; but there are some exceptions:

1. if somebody wants to backup his material he better self contain his ish.

2. if people collaborate

3. if you have a big Hard Disk, i'd still self contain my songs (just to make sure...). 'cause if you accidentally delete a sample (or something like that), you'll still be able to play the .rns...

One,
Wings
.

plus you can backup your beats on a cd, cause it sucks when you got a couple of hundred beats and your harddisks decides to die... that is straight killing your children..

 

[Guevara]

Went online on FL website with a bootleg FL program open and the website caught it somehow. it put a lock and password on all my beats and screwed up my FL program so i couldnt use it anymore.

iDA SENT THEM SoME ANTHRAX FoR REAL.

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