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  • I'm thinking about a new recording PC

    Here's my main question: is a budget of $400 at all possible for a PC almost solely dedicated to recording guitars, bass, vocals, and *possibly* a little synth?
    I have a brother who can build it if I pay for parts. My needs are as follows: I need to be able to run cab sims, and drum programs. I'd most likely be running reaper. A WiFi connection would be good. I don't do video or animation editing at all. Is it doable? Part names might be helpful if you have some to recommend.
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    Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

    Im going to say that you can but you'll be a little limited ocassionally if at all

    I haven't done a PC build in a while though.

    http://www.newegg.com

    Check their deals...they have some insane ones quite often

    I would be willing to drop a little bit more dough on the interface and mic. The 400 bucks won't cover that I wouldn't think. That said between sweetwater and newegg you can find some hella deals...you'll need to hunt for deals but I think you can do it


    I would go AMD for the processor. You want a good chunk of cache for music stuff and don't skimp on RAM. Looking at it you might need to bump that to 500...
    Last edited by cream123; 11-17-2012, 05:32 PM.
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      Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

      Absolutely. The only thing that needs a beefy PC is effects and you can just do them one by one, you don't need them all at the same time as in a traditional mix. Obviously you don't need a big graphics card and that also cuts down on the power supply demands.

      Enough RAM is nice to have but 8 GB cost < $40 in the US. I'd get some silly little i5 system with a gigabyte board, the cheapest memory (fast memory is a waste of money) and a pair of solid Seagates or WDs in some form of raid1 (not sure what is a good raid for windows). A solid PSU, I use Seventeam, not sure whether they have consumer PSUs right now. Corsair has been pumping out good PSUs. Absolutely no cheap PSUs and no OCZ. No SSD.
      Last edited by uOpt; 11-17-2012, 06:45 PM.

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        Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

        Originally posted by uOpt View Post
        Absolutely. The only thing that needs a beefy PC is effects and you can just do them one by one, you don't need them all at the same time as in a traditional mix. Obviously you don't need a big graphics card and that also cuts down on the power supply demands.

        Enough RAM is nice to have bug 8 GB cost < $40 in the US. I'd get some silly little i5 system with a gigabyte board, the cheapest memory (fast memory is a waste of money) and a pair of solid Seagates or WDs in some form of raid1 (not sure what is a good raid for windows). A solid PSU, I use Seventeam, not sure whether they have consumer PSUs right now. Corsair has been pumping out good PSUs. Absolutely no cheap PSUs and no OCZ. No SSD.

        You may very well get the full cost in under 400 then with the interface
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          Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

          Thanks guys.
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          Originally posted by kevlar3000
          The smoker is great at adding a few decades, kinda like having Keith Richards breathe on yer guitar for a few hours...
          Originally posted by CTN
          I will kill you. Then I will resuscitate you, so you can watch me steal your new Tokai and play some horrible sounding ultra-dissonant death metal on it, then I will kill you again.
          FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! DC RESISTANCE DOES NOT DETERMINE ACTUAL OUTPUT OF A PICKUP.

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            Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

            Good luck, I just use an AMD based one, and 8gigs of ram.....uses a 10'000rpm disc.....but still wonder how a SS disc would do....

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              Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

              I would go Intel CPU and chipset. AMD has been lagging behind Intel performance-wise for years. It's not worth saving $20, especially if you're running cab sims.

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                Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

                Originally posted by dominus View Post
                I would go Intel CPU and chipset. AMD has been lagging behind Intel performance-wise for years. It's not worth saving $20, especially if you're running cab sims.
                The saving is a bit more than 20 bucks...It didn't sound like he wanted to get too crazy with the synth stuff.
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                  Re: I'm thinking about a new recording PC

                  It is very difficult to predict which workload with still perform competitively on AMD and which workload will not. Even I can't do it anymore and I do it for a living. Unfortunately you are unlikely to find premade benchmarks about audio processing on the web.

                  The AMD world sometimes see cool mainboards a lot cheaper, so it also falls back on the question whether you just want a base board or something better.

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