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Author: Zanf on September 01 2007 Viewed 2446 times. 17 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Not a happy blog, Im sorry to report.
I purchased a Liquid Mix back in April and it developed troubles in July. When I booted one weekend to write music, it failed to connect to the PC. I tried changing the FW ports, a different cable and eventually reinstalled XP but nothing worked. After contacting Focusrites tech support and trying a other few things, I took the unit back to teh shop and exchanged it.
All worked well until last weekend when the second unit did exactly the same thing as the first.
I spent about 4 hours on saturday trying to get it working again but to no avail. I emailed the shop and asked if I brought it back and it didnt work, could I exchange it for a Universal Audio UAD-1, which they were happy to do.
So I went in on wednesday afternoon [took an early day from work] and returned the device. they didnt have a UAD in stock so said they would send it out to me and it arrived Friday morning.
I had a few issues with the guy in the shop [he charged me full price for the card even though they have a price match policy and I felt I was pretty much dealt with in an overly swift manner. Not really good CS considering I had taken the afternoon off work to sort it out], but I got a call from one of the directors to resolve these issues.
Now, I have tried to spend another saturday making music but for some reason my PC decides to play up. After looking at a few things, I also notice that XP displays that I only have 2.5GB of RAM installed even though I have 4GB in the box.
The PC seems to have lost all the external hardware drivers [sound, GFX, UAD, FW, network, wireless, etc etc etc] so I go through reinstalling them all.
Then the PC decides that it doesnt want to recognise the UAD anymore even though I have re-installed the drivers [it showed a hardware error code of 37 "XP cannot start this device"] so I remove the card & drivers and try again.
Now when I boot the machine the GFX dont fire up. My monitors dont kick in and show all the usual boot info.
I feel pretty much at my wits end with it all now. I feel like just giving it up, selling everything then pissing off on a very very long holiday. I'd just got everything running and was playing around with some old stuff to get back into the flow and its all gone to shit.
In other news, I got my passport back the other week but it was fucked so had to send it back. I got a letter today asking me to reapply for a new one including another fee. So they want another £66 out of me.
I have started proceedings to get the necessary documents to apply for an Irish one as my grandmother was Irish so I have ancestral rights to get one. Its a bit involved as I need my mums and grandmothers birth, marriage and death certificates then register my own birth in Ireland [as a foreign birth] before I can actually get it. The upside is that I wont have to register for an ID card when that shit comes into effect [one of the reasons Im doing it as well as its safer to travel under Irish citizenship in some places in the world rather than a UK one].
I was thinking of getting a Vermona DRM1 MK2 drum machine soon [anyone have any experience of them?] as well but everyhitng is going to be put on hold until I can sort all this shit out, if it gets sorted.
Well, my weekend has been shit so far but how is yours?
[the other photos are ones I found of me 10 years ago when I used to have dreads!]
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monkvolcano
zanf, just get a midi splitter for the kurz, they seem to go real cheap on ebay cause not too many folks use them anymore.
also LOL@bla wispering anti-pc stuff in ur ear.. "you know the pc problem will happen again"
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fora
I feel better after reading this, at least somebody else had a shit weekend too!
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astroid
yah i just got a 2X2 midi dealy for like 12 bux
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mixedtape
you hot fucker. just wanted to say something. hi.
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seanh
my weekend is going great. i am at dragon*con - link. tremendous fun. i am stupendously tired.
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seanh
oh yeah, and saturday was my birthday.
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Zanf
happy birthday for yesterday!
they had some sort of con festival in london this weekend as theyve been making a lot of noise about the cast from heroes being at it.
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HKHK
I used to have all these sorts of problems with my pc. Now that i have a mac i feel everything is more expensive and i am limited in my choices more but at least i can actually work on tracks instead of working on the damn computer all the time.
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colin
hay zanf .. sorry about the computer troubles 
ive got a drm mkII, .. its nice, i got it from someone in emchat for $200 best intranet deal ever.
its got some serious bass, among other things ..
if you wanna hear some,.. lemme know
09/03/07
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Zanf
colin - do you really need me to answer that? post a video on yootoob as theres only one and it aint that great.
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colin
lol k, .. i'l emmail ya when its up ;)
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energygiant
colin, upload 'fuuck' or 'yournuts'
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SenorFrio
That sounds rough. colin -- that was a bad ass deal! Damn!
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ricemutt
hehe, nice pics man. good luck with all that gear--working that shit out is the worst..
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