RE: The thread for flipping shits (and tables)
01-09-2016, 12:06 AM
so my new laptop didn't come with separate headphone and mic jacks, which is a major issue for me, because i need that mic port to a) digitize records and b) turn the songs i make on my computer with those records into files that other people can listen to by routing the headphone port into the mic port. so i buy a jack splitter for like $7 that gives me both in my one headphone jack and keep going on my merry way.
today i decide i'm gonna finally just finish the album i've been procrastinating about and putting the finishing touches on for, like, 7 months: make the last few handful of necessary mastering tweaks, and ship it out finally before i move away from home + computer in 4 days. i do about 3 songs and they're sounding a little weird to my ears, like the reverb plug-in changed when i updated the DAW or something, but it's not exactly bad and i can live with it if it means being done. i do a listen-through of one of the files i've ripped and discover, to my horror, that i am only getting one channel.
that is to say, you're supposed to have a left and right channel, but instead, i am getting only one of the left or right channel, duplicated. my music is now presented in glorious monophonic sound, against my will. now there's nothing wrong with mono, i even did a special mono mixdown of one stereo-heavy song just because i've met too many people with one ear or one headphone or one speaker, but if i'm working in mono i certainly want to KNOW i'm working in mono and intend to! (this also means that the records i ripped on my digitizing spree this week are also complete trash files and i'll have to find a way to redo them later, and to compound this issue that means in this instance suffering through some really terrible albums again!)
so if i want to finish my album i'm gonna have to shell out the $75 for actually registering the freeware DAW i'm using so i can use its render function, which comes on top of the $25 i already payed for an hour of session bass guitar and... probably over $100 in records i used for sample grist, all for an album i'm going to give away for free and nobody's actually going to listen to anyway, while unemployed. art sucks
today i decide i'm gonna finally just finish the album i've been procrastinating about and putting the finishing touches on for, like, 7 months: make the last few handful of necessary mastering tweaks, and ship it out finally before i move away from home + computer in 4 days. i do about 3 songs and they're sounding a little weird to my ears, like the reverb plug-in changed when i updated the DAW or something, but it's not exactly bad and i can live with it if it means being done. i do a listen-through of one of the files i've ripped and discover, to my horror, that i am only getting one channel.
that is to say, you're supposed to have a left and right channel, but instead, i am getting only one of the left or right channel, duplicated. my music is now presented in glorious monophonic sound, against my will. now there's nothing wrong with mono, i even did a special mono mixdown of one stereo-heavy song just because i've met too many people with one ear or one headphone or one speaker, but if i'm working in mono i certainly want to KNOW i'm working in mono and intend to! (this also means that the records i ripped on my digitizing spree this week are also complete trash files and i'll have to find a way to redo them later, and to compound this issue that means in this instance suffering through some really terrible albums again!)
so if i want to finish my album i'm gonna have to shell out the $75 for actually registering the freeware DAW i'm using so i can use its render function, which comes on top of the $25 i already payed for an hour of session bass guitar and... probably over $100 in records i used for sample grist, all for an album i'm going to give away for free and nobody's actually going to listen to anyway, while unemployed. art sucks