Posts by Benjamin King2

Jason Chavez32 said:You guys are such absolute frauds and jerks. One person decided they were suddenly an expert and started trash-talking Morales, and now you're all just jumping on the bandwagon. 🙂

Morales is a legend—a literal institution. Anyone hating on him like this clearly doesn't give a damn about dance music or have any respect for what he actually built for the scene. Sure, maybe he isn't some trendy name on everyone's radar right this second, but the guy is one of the architects of house music. Seriously, people, he was spinning records at Paradise Garage before most of us were even a thought. This man has dozens of number-one hits under his belt. He’s got a Grammy. He’s done remixes for Madonna, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, U2, Björk...

You honestly have no clue what you're talking about. When you disrespect Morales, you're disrespecting the entire culture of dance music. 👎

Just go listen to Sessions 7 or Cream Anthems and compare that to the garbage being played over the last six or seven years. You can take that "modern production" and shove that Grammy right up your ass—that's not house.

Honestly, mixing substances on such short notice isn't exactly a genius move—especially if you haven't got a clue how they’re going to interact once they hit your system. And what do you mean, a 100 mg dose of Xanax? 😲 Are we talking about those blue pills?

There’s a disk in there—honestly, I have no clue who it belongs to—so you might want to check with the guy running the shop to see if he knows what's up. 😁

Razer just handles the enclosures, they don't actually make the drives themselves.

It’s not exactly a camp in the traditional sense of the word, if you know what I mean.

Look, at the end of the day, it’s just an external drive in a case—whether it's a 2.5" or a 3.5" doesn't really change the fundamental concept. Those first ones tend to be a bit more compact, sure, but you're paying a premium for that small footprint, which feels like a bad deal when you realize they're pricier for the exact same storage space. The larger ones? They're faster and pack way more capacity anyway. As I recall, those smaller 2.5" models are topping out at maybe 160 GB right now, which is honestly pretty underwhelming.

I’ve actually spent some time messing around with a 500 GB Western Digital Elements—the 7200 rpm version via FireWire—and honestly, it runs like an absolute beast. I'm guessing your specific model is the USB version since the price point is significantly lower, so if you aren't obsessed with raw transfer speeds—meaning, if you're mostly just using it as a glorified digital junk drawer—then go ahead and grab it.

rowdyviper3 said:Does anyone know of an MP3 player—besides using Winamp—that actually loads the entire track into memory before playing? I’m tired of my disk drive stuttering every ten seconds just because the player needs to buffer a few hundred kilobytes. I need something that just works without constantly hitting the drive. Also, it absolutely has to be compatible with Windows XP.

Honestly, that’s the one thing keeping me tethered to Winamp—if it weren't for that, I would have ditched it ages ago—back when I was still rocking version 2.92.

If you’ve got a surround sound setup running on your PC, do yourself a favor and grab their free player from the Bell Labs site—honestly, I haven't tested it on a full stereo rig yet, so take my word with a grain of salt—but I think they have a 2.0 version out now that sounds absolutely killer. The only catch is the interface is pretty stripped-back and minimalist, but hey, if the audio is good, who really cares about a bunch of flashy buttons? 🙂

Maybe you could just tell me which modem you're running—I can't exactly read your mind here—but honestly, I’d bet anything the manual tells you exactly where you can plug it in. 👍
Since you already went through the trouble of installing it, why not just try using the FedEx tool built into macOS instead of that Marvel whatever-it-is...

I’m betting there’s no duplexing here—it probably has to flip the paper manually 😬

So, how exactly do you expect to vacuum up all that spam if you aren't allowed to touch it? I mean—where would you even start picking at it from?

slyviper14 said:honestly, if I had a nickel for every time someone messed up their gear—like, a literal infant stabbing a driver with a pencil and causing a puncture—I'd probably be retired by now...
the whole set runs about $367.

Look, you could always try hitting up a local repair shop to see if they’ll just swap out the driver membrane for you—though, honestly, given what parts cost these days, I’m not sure if it’s actually worth the headache or the cash.

What’s that supposed to mean? Is he out of his mind?

It isn't exactly "free" if you have to jump through hoops just to make it work 😛

Nothing worth having comes for free.

Look, if you aren't actually looking to tweak anything in that Express version, just fire up the standard Nero Burning ROM and handle everything there. It’s much easier—you’ve got a dedicated tab for normalization where you can set your specific percentage, plus a separate tab for the audio tracks to deal with CD Text and track naming syntax... my only real thought is that you'll need to make sure your MP3 files have the right tags ready to go.

Maybe try messing around with the latency settings in the BIOS—it doesn't necessarily mean the modules are defective. It could just be some ASRock junk acting up.

Everything's there—you just need to open up the options 😛

If you’re actually building something from scratch, you should be working in Adobe Illustrator or something similar—it's just way easier and gives you so many more options than what you've got here. If you want to make life a little less painful, you can just grab some Photoshop CD templates to work with:
http://www.surething.com/st/download...plates_PSD.zip

I get what you're saying. What kind of audio format does that DVD recorder actually use when it's recording?