Sarah5string Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 This evening I sat down to work out and record a new complex bass part for Avenged sevenfold's A little piece of heaven. It's 8 minutes long... full of trumpets, clarinets, brass sections.. etc.. so I thought it would be a challenge to encompass all of these parts into one bassline. A challenge.. but I set about it... recording all of the parts in Audacity. 3 hours after I first sat down.. I was about 95% finished. then... the program crashed.... Not a problem normally... but what didn't I do? ..... I didn't F*CKING SAVE IT! .... I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Quote
teen t-shirt Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 i personally would go and find a very dark room and sit in the corner and rock backwards and forwards... i've heard that song and love it and for you to ecompass all those parts into one line is very very good... well done sarah... Quote
Sarah5string Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 Oh wait... I found the sound files in audacity.... ... 458 files.... including the original track.... originally 8 minutes long... which is now in hundreds of 6 second clips.... ... I think I need a drink... Quote
teen t-shirt Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 how lovely i'll have a smiths thanks... Quote
Sibob Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 Like Alistair said, Just see it as an opportunity to improve upon your first attempt! Si Quote
Sarah5string Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 You guys aren't helping.. lol! Quote
Dubs Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 my housemate had his hard drive fail on him 2 days before his dissertation was due in...watching him have a nervous breakdown was probably one of the most horrible things I've ever seen. Moral of the story - Back the f***er up Quote
bnt Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 [quote name='Sarah5string' post='275012' date='Sep 1 2008, 10:17 PM']Oh wait... I found the sound files in audacity....[/quote] Ah, Audacity: have a look [url="http://www.audacityteam.org/manual/index.php?title=FAQ#Audacity_crashed.21_Can_I_recover_any_unsaved_data.3F"]here[/url], Audacity has a crash recovery program that might help in these cases. Quote
Bilbo Posted September 2, 2008 Posted September 2, 2008 I have a 205,000 word manuscript I am working on. The back-up is backed-up with copies on 3 different computers and a falsh drive. I lost 8,000 words of an MA dissertation once; fortunately I had origianlly hand written it but it still took hours of typing to recover it. You'll never make THAT mistake twice! Quote
crez5150 Posted September 2, 2008 Posted September 2, 2008 Are you 'Flushing' all of your unused audio files..... Even if you delete them from the window, they are not necessarily deleted off your hard disk... best get rid and make sure you back up often Quote
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