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This Life Ain’t Easy (Stereophonics)

Yes, it’s a case of don’t know what you don’t know. Once you figure it out it’s ok. I was racking my brains trying to figure out how to cut and paste bars of a drum beat until I accidentally discovered that you can just drag and extend the track and it does it for you.

Another cheap (free) option is Audacity. That is pretty simple to use but more limited than Reaper. I downloaded Reaper this week and it’s taken quite a while to work out overdubbing, whereas in Audacity it seems to be more intuitive. I’ll buy the Reaper license and stick with it as it’s far more versatile but if I didn’t have any previous experience (very old version of Soundforge and Audacity) I wouldn’t know where to begin. This lady may become your new best friend, she explains stuff really well: Music Reapo

Spectrum (Billy Cobham)

Colours (Airbag)

Natural Science (Rush)

Last Train Home (Pat Matheny)

Pretty Girl (Yardbirds)

*too slow* Money (PF)

I’m your Man (Leonard Cohen)

Lost for Words (Pink Floyd)

Up for the Down Stroke (Parliament)

Voodoo Chile (slight return) (James Marshall Hendrix)

Vulcan Princess (Stanley Clarke)

Girls and Boys (Blur)

You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Robert Zimmerman)

I Can’t Stand the Rain (Tina Turner)

Charlie’s Enormous Mouth (Frank Zappa)

Natural Science (Rush)

No. 1 Party Anthem (Arctic Monkeys)

Enola Gay (OMD)

Love will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

Neat Little Rows (Elbow)

Nice. Got myself an album while I was there too.

I have a Fender Rumble (3 presets) and a Boss GT-1B (99 presets). On the amp they offer quick tweaks that can be handy. On the multi effect I maybe use 2 very occasionally but mainly have created my own patches. So my answer would be both. I use them but I wouldn’t want to have presets as the only option.