Re: Home recording, Mac vs. PC
Hey dude I just assembled such a machine. Many times I have to go outside and record things in place (choirs etc) and I did not like the idea of:
- using a laptop
- bumping around my standalone C2Duo studio workstation (hurting the RME 9652 and carrying the Tascam DM24 really scares me)
So I built a rackmount, dirt cheap audio workstation, used / e-bay parts mainly:
MBoard: Abit NF7-S
Proc: AMD Sempron socket A (1700MHz) with Zalman cooling units (dead silent)
HDD: 2x Hitachi ST 160G, SATA raid: mode1 //man that's FAST//
RAM: Infineon 2x1GB (PC3200), matched pair for smooth dual DDR400 memory mode
Firewire card: D-Link FW500
Audio interface: Focusrite Saffire Pro 10 I/O
Backup audio card: Echo MIA Midi (you can never know...)
Power unit: Mercury 400W (cheap, reliable)
Video card: Sapphire X800 GTO (you can even play offline gamez with good frame per sec)
Optical drive: Plextor PX-800A (that's a new one)
OS: XP SP2, audio optimized - No network!
For a start check this out fo good tips:
My XP is rather barebone on an advanced level. No bells and whistles - but it performs.
DAW SW: Sonar 6, Adobe Audition 3.0
For approx. $300 (without audio parts), this little oldie beast is capable of recording audio 16 channels simultaneously (2 saffires piggyback) without noticable latency issues or any hiccup and you can run a surprising number of plugins and soft synths real-time.
Bulletproof, cost-effective
Originally posted by Dr.Mavashi
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Hey dude I just assembled such a machine. Many times I have to go outside and record things in place (choirs etc) and I did not like the idea of:
- using a laptop
- bumping around my standalone C2Duo studio workstation (hurting the RME 9652 and carrying the Tascam DM24 really scares me)
So I built a rackmount, dirt cheap audio workstation, used / e-bay parts mainly:
MBoard: Abit NF7-S
Proc: AMD Sempron socket A (1700MHz) with Zalman cooling units (dead silent)
HDD: 2x Hitachi ST 160G, SATA raid: mode1 //man that's FAST//
RAM: Infineon 2x1GB (PC3200), matched pair for smooth dual DDR400 memory mode
Firewire card: D-Link FW500
Audio interface: Focusrite Saffire Pro 10 I/O
Backup audio card: Echo MIA Midi (you can never know...)
Power unit: Mercury 400W (cheap, reliable)
Video card: Sapphire X800 GTO (you can even play offline gamez with good frame per sec)
Optical drive: Plextor PX-800A (that's a new one)
OS: XP SP2, audio optimized - No network!
For a start check this out fo good tips:
My XP is rather barebone on an advanced level. No bells and whistles - but it performs.
DAW SW: Sonar 6, Adobe Audition 3.0
For approx. $300 (without audio parts), this little oldie beast is capable of recording audio 16 channels simultaneously (2 saffires piggyback) without noticable latency issues or any hiccup and you can run a surprising number of plugins and soft synths real-time.
Bulletproof, cost-effective
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