Just yesterday I was reading how Juelz hard drive crashed and he thought he might of lost all his Pro Tool files for "What The Game's Been Missing". Luckily (depending on your perspective) he was able to get it fixed and retrieve all the files.
I've teamed up with a kat, SP Double to form a group Lost Gems. We've been recording an EP and needed to touch up a few tracks and record one more track then start pressing up the shit. We've been recording in Pro Tools and have saved all the files. We both knew we needed to get an external hard-drive to back up all the files and/or a DVD burner. The problem was neither of us have had the money to do that, we were going to cop one this Friday when my wife got paid.
Last night while waiting to catch the Lightrail to get to school. I was telling my wife about the Juelz situation saying we need to back up our shit.
This morning I roll into work and my message light is blinking on my phone. I check the messages and the last one is my boy telling me, the computer where all our files are has crashed, and we've lost all the beat configuaration files, all the Pro Tools sessions etc.
We can take the computer to a repair shop but there's no guarantee that we'll be able to retrieve the files.
I'm not that vexed about it. It sucks for sure, but I'm always one to move forward. We're never going to be able to recapture the feeling our recording had. I have a rough mixed CD of all but one of the tracks and I can honestly say we had a dope consistent product that would've been well recieved and appreciated by a lot of people. A big element of the recordings were ad libs and shit that just can't be duplicated, exactly. It will lack the energy and spontaniety of the original recording.
AWWWWW!
I've teamed up with a kat, SP Double to form a group Lost Gems. We've been recording an EP and needed to touch up a few tracks and record one more track then start pressing up the shit. We've been recording in Pro Tools and have saved all the files. We both knew we needed to get an external hard-drive to back up all the files and/or a DVD burner. The problem was neither of us have had the money to do that, we were going to cop one this Friday when my wife got paid.
Last night while waiting to catch the Lightrail to get to school. I was telling my wife about the Juelz situation saying we need to back up our shit.
This morning I roll into work and my message light is blinking on my phone. I check the messages and the last one is my boy telling me, the computer where all our files are has crashed, and we've lost all the beat configuaration files, all the Pro Tools sessions etc.
We can take the computer to a repair shop but there's no guarantee that we'll be able to retrieve the files.
I'm not that vexed about it. It sucks for sure, but I'm always one to move forward. We're never going to be able to recapture the feeling our recording had. I have a rough mixed CD of all but one of the tracks and I can honestly say we had a dope consistent product that would've been well recieved and appreciated by a lot of people. A big element of the recordings were ad libs and shit that just can't be duplicated, exactly. It will lack the energy and spontaniety of the original recording.
AWWWWW!
