just wanted to add to this real quick:
I tracked an entire album with a band last year, but we couldn't do vocals because the singer had to get some sort of surgery done to fix her vocal chords. Long story short, all of their files were in some other band's folder, and i deleted everything. They were coming in today to start vocal tracking, and i opened the session up to "4000 missing fades, 931 missing files".
Not only is this a huge bummer to me and the band, but it was also a waste of 3 fucking weeks. This tops the list of the dumbest studio mistakes i've ever made.
I own an original 5150 and a triaxis / simul 2:90 plus have instant access to a dual rec anytime I wish ... marshall and mesa cab .... and on my last cd I recorded all my guitars with ...
A fucking POD
FML
Never again
ALKEMYST first album was recorded during summer 2001. On september, after 56 days of incredibly hard work, the hard drive crashed. There were no saves. This is true. The studio owner and ingeneer were kind enough to offer us to re-record the album. We did it on summer 2002.
This was a stupid mistake, but in the end, it's been a good thing : the second version is far better than the first one.