The DijonStock Digital Home Recording Support Forum

Hello again to all you yammie heads

After a long search I finally found an affordable 2400 and picked it up yesterday,got it home turned her on and loaded the demo song, only song on the HD,Then this morning after looking for useful tips on here I found someone saying do not load the demo song as it may cause the 2400 to malfunction.

Before I start recording today should I reformat the HD.

cheers Jasper

I have answered this one myself and formatted the HD,It took about 20 seconds so no more demo song and all is well.Im off to get to know her now.
Happy Days.

Greetings. Gratz on the 2400. Formatting was probably a good thing. But all the demo song does is show you what can be done with automix, fx, eq etc. When all that data saved to a scene (generally to be able to use automix), the new songs you create carry over that crap. Therefore, you could have just diengaged the automix and initialized the scene. However, you did the right thing. Ask Robbie!

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GSMUSIC: Hey RZ, Im not no upper class american, the gear I own is what I have special to me. My car sucks, my house sucks, my nieghborhood sucks. Does yours RZ? Does it?

rz-land

Yes, the Demo song is not bad in and of itself. the problem lies, as Ron said, with the fact that the settings do not change when a new song is called up from the list. This is true of any change in the current song. The demo song is particularly bad because a competent user has, for demonstrative purpose, utilized settings of which the newbie user has no idea. So the machine seems to go "wonky".

As suggested knowledge of how scenes work and when/how to call up a new scene from which to begin/proceed is very important. Particularly when using the automix on your new 2400. You will like your new machine I am sure. Ask your questions as we can certainly help ramp up your learning curve.

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Byron

Thanks chaps,see I took your advice you gave me all those months ago RZ and I held out and the the good lord giveth me a beautiful 2400 for only £250 and a three hour drive but worth every minute.
I've just recorded my first four tracks with no probs, in fact its a breeze and god it sounds so so good.must go now my new babe is calling me and i must heale and go and cuddle up to her,I just cant stop salivating over her,onto track five we go.

See Ya

Format is good.

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HAHA - yes, very wonky! I remember those early days well. Unfortunately!

And yes, I agree with Robbie - formatting: