[geeks] Garageband w/guitar

[Thomas Gallaway]

On Jan 21, 2004, at 8:53 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:27:51AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:26:30PM +1100, Benjamin Gardiner wrote:
>>> Wow that book is still in print, cool, I need a new copy of it, mine 
>>> has
>>> well, falen apart.
>>
>> Here's what I did while testing the guitar-into-mac-and-garageband
>> stuff earlier tonight:
>>
>> http://www.mrbill.net/gb/shittyguitar.mp3
>>
>> Its truly horrible; more of a "okay it works" than me actually trying 
>> to
>> play something decent 8-)  I played a pulled-out-of-my-ass power chord
>> over a looped drum track.
>
>
> Stop!  You've exceeded my jealousy quotient for the week.  You are 
> doing
> all of this on a dual ghz G4?  It would be nice to hear more of what it
> can do for guitar distortion.  That particular setting didn't sound so
> good.  Was it just distortion?  Maybe it needed some reverb.

I used to do a 8 track hard disk recording on a Pentium 166 years ago 
with
cubase vst and still had cpu time for effects. It even was an IDE 
system and
not scsi and worked fairly well. It was the best machine I ever had. 
Cubase
ran smooth as hell. Then I upgraded and nothing worked any more.