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Guitar Rig sample

I’ve recorded a “lick” using Native Instrument’s Guitar Rig 2 instead of the GT-8. I must say I’m leaning towards using GR2 over the GT-8 since it’s much more flexible. You can record a guitar dry signal and just mix and match effects on post-process. This makes it possible to improve/change the tone if you suddenly realized that you wanted a “different sound.” This was also a perfect opportunity to brush up on my guitar tapping technique – I’m so out of practice and it shows hahahaha.

I also tried using Toontrack’s DFH EZDrummer. I must say it is quite impressive considering it’s a really stripped down drum module with not nearly enough features as a Battery or BFD, but it gets the job done for quick and dirty tracking. Perfect if you want “decent” drums but have no time to really set it up. Of course when you start finalizing your songs, it would be andvisable to swap in the more robust drum modules in place of EZDrummer.

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When was the last time I did this

Got this from Jem. Pretty cool because I was thinking the same thing hahaha.

Your Seduction Style: The Charmer
You’re a master at intimate conversation and verbal enticement.
You seduce with words, by getting people to open up to you.
By establishing this deep connection quickly, people feel under your power.
And then you’ve got them exactly where you want them!
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Of the last 48 hours

Now you see it – now you don’t

Today was pretty boring – which wasn’t supposed to be the case since I got my powerbook back yesterday. But was pulled out again today.

Apparently when they said they’d do a full diagnostics check – they meant the opposite. I eventually opened up the laptop’s backplate and was staring down at two 512MB DIMMs – which is correct. So why do I mention it? Because the OS is only reporting 512MB of RAM instead of a gig! At least they were commited to replacing the logic board.

Once that’s done, I will now be able to enumerate the stuff that hasn’t been replaced:

  1. Superdrive.
  2. LCD shell (the LCD itself has been replaced)
  3. Keyboard.
  4. All inner-components except for the logic board.
  5. Battery.
  6. RAM DIMMs

Can’t help but wonder if I had just saved all of those, and just asked for a new MacBook or something hehehe – I can dream can’t I? Sobrang na-sulit ko na yung warranty. – and still got a whole year to go! Read More

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WRT54G P2P problems?

I noticed that I’ve been getting erratic behaviour with my router whenever I had bittorrent running. After a while it would always slow down to a crawl – where I had to reboot the router to get things back to normal. While rebooting the router manually (or via GUI, after much waiting) solves this. The problem always returned, which suggests that there’s something wrong with how the router handles P2P connections. I decided to look around for cases of the same problem.

The default firmware for Linksys and most routers track old connections for five days, then start to clear dead connections – which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections which the router can’t take. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.

Linksys has yet to address this issue, but there is a fix. If you use alternative WRT54G firmware, you can put in a start-up script to fix this problem.

I just applied the fix they mention down this post, only time will tell if it actually worked. Read More