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Given a wide variety of options for on-line and phone ordering of guitars and basses, what are people's preferences and why? My main interest is where people either have been satisfied or dissatisfied in terms of ordering bass guitars.

First, let me thank everyone for having such a civil and informative discussion. From what I've seen, this is not always the case on this HR forum. So, I work in the area of high end massively parallel compute systems (i.e., supercomputing). When people benchmark systems in this area, they...

It depends on the level of parallelism in the DAW code. If the code makes *effecient* use of a multi core system, then it might be a win. If not, then you are likely better off with the fastest individual cores. I don't know the inner workings of many of the DAWS people on this forum use, but...

Pls be really careful w benchmarks. I was involved in dealing with HPC benchmarking for years in terms of procurements of massively parallel systems. If used improperly, they can be extraordinarily misleading when it comes to the performance of critical software. I don't see the direct...

Seriously nice! For someone jumping in, if you could trade the 12 2.66GHz cores for 4 3.5GHz, you would be much better off if your objective is to support a current DAW.

Desktop Computers at TigerDirect.com These are typically close outs at a good price. Often a nice cost-effective place to start. Plenty of other companies like this out there. Just an example.

I am a prof of comp sci. I agree with the above. In my studio, I invest in redundancy ant it pays off. I have a mirrored drive (Raid1), use Smart Sync Pro to keep backups to a local Seagate USB 3.o drive, and Carbonite for an off-site backup. This works very well for me. I pause SSP and...

Not clear. I wonder if by the time you add memory, disks, software, and your time/effort/lack of warranty if you aren't better off with a complete Win 7 Pro system from Tiger Direct or direct from an on-line company that will negotiate price by phone. In recent years I have been very happy...

Let us know how it plays and how the frets are dressed. Also whether the frets are comfortable on the edges of the neck. The MIM Fender J-basses seem to be improving in recent years. Enjoy!

Also, if you are using a presonus audiobox VSL and use the VSL software and have the audiobox VSL set as instructed, you will not hear any latency while tracking. It's a beautiful thing :-)

+1 S1 Pro - been thrilled with it. Recording, mixing, and mastering. Working on PC Win 7 64-bit Pro and working with colleagues remotely who use it on a Mac.

I would recommend 2 complimentary software products. As a professor of computer science and former director of one of the world's largest supercomputing centers, I won't recommend specific products but will tell you that on the computers in my studio, I have Symantec and MalwareBytes. Each does...

Thank you. You are correct in that I am looking for a stock acoustic-electric. Maybe a Breedlove or a Martin or a Carvin or, well, I don't really know. Looking for some input and advice.

Any recommendations on a good sounding and playing acoustic-electric 4-string? Looking to spend less than $1000. I expect that most of the time I will be plugged in, either live or in the studio, but want it to yield a nice acoustic bass sound. (I have plenty of electric basses - looking for...

We have certainly heard the same. In terms of relatively inexpensive preamps, we did a lot of internal testing and sold our preamp :-) Now, in terms of an expensive preamp, that's not clear to us using our setup. However, I can tell you that it is hard to believe that something is missing...

While I have no experience with the line 6, with the preamps in the AudioBox 44VSL, which have a reputation of being quite good, we were able to stop using external preamps. We have access on the AudioBox to inputs with and without preamps, so passive and active instruments all seem to be...

I would recommend that you have a pair of SONY MDR-7506 headphones somewhere in your arsenal. They are an old standard and I really like them for tracking, mixing, and mastering. They are closed, so when mastering, I usually start with these, but use a wide variety of phone and monitors to...

I would urge caution when considering the Pawn Shop Mustang. I owned a Mustang in the 70s and it played great and sounded very good, so I might be biased. The sound wasn't as good as some standard length basses of the day (P-bass, J-bass, Ric, Aria, Alembic), but for people who wanted a short...

Bass guitar straight in to Presonus 44vsl. we don't use amp modeling, as we haven't felt it necessary, but that seems like a fine thing to try. We just use compression, some EQ, and maybe some reverb. Very minimal, though I do have a nice array of basses/tones to choose from going in.

That's very good to hear. I'm a Unix/Linux from way back. Workstations, supercomputers, grids, and everything in between. However, when I moved to computer-based recording, I decided that i wanted to use well supported systems, so I weighed Apple vs PC and came down on the side of Win 7 Pro...