Computer in rack? (Rackmount case)

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Rackmount LCD

Chipwits, I was doing some research into this a while back and I thought it would be neat to also add a rack mounted LCD/keyboard combo. Man they are very cool, especially if you plan on transporting. Just a thought.
 
Rick,

Yeah I have been thinking the same thing. Rackmount Monitor/Mouse/Keyboard would be nice. The entire studio would be contained in one mobile rack.

Nice song btw. I felt the same way when I lived in San Francisco for a year contracting there. Thought it was great , big time at first .... but then I got lonely and tired of it quickly heh. Back to the suburbs.

James
 
I have an upright Antec quiet case with an AMD 64 system. I do all my remote recording with an AKAI DPS16 which is a great and stable unit, but is limited in transferring tracks to the computer; I have to do submixes or oddball workarounds. I've upgraded my stage mixer to an Onyx firewire front end (16 channels) and am thinking about taking the rig out when I do special gigs, but I would need to build a shockmount case for it. Anyone ever done that? All I can think of is a plywood suspension case on casters with bungees to keep the unit from clankiing around inside it.

And has anyone had practical success using a laptop just as a monitor / keyboard interface? I have a more or less passable laptop but I'm reluctant to try recording with it; it's an older Toshiba Satellite that is a bit crazed. I do have a firewire / USB2 card for it.
 
chipwits said:
LemonTree, what kind of cpu do you have in your system? The main source of noise for me is the Intel Pentium 4 cpu fan. It is horribly loud (brand new too). I can buy the Zalman LGA775 cpu fan from endpcnoise.com. I don't know how much quiter it is though. Right now my system is so noisy from that Intel fan and makes my recordings very noisy. Too noisy.

James
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Yeah I have a P IV 3.0GHz and the fan was terrible. I swapped that out and replaced it with a Zallman flower
 
Yeah, mine's in an ATX 4 unit rack case, in a very dodgey home made rack. I plan on either making a smaller rack, or making it properly..

Listen to the other guys - it's a heavy sucker, and it's very deep. I've got a passive Zalman GPU cooler, Spire Whisper rock CPU cooler, Zalman PSU mounted with a vantec PSU dampner, Spire Soundpad lining the whole thing. Loudest things the hard drives, seagate in my case.

I'd like to hookup a keyboard/mouse/LCD to it, rackmount that somehow. LCD flips up, keyboard and mouse slide out from under mixer desk - that'd be cool. Or maybe just get a laptop..

Willy's dodgey rack setup

Willy.
 
Rackmount's R Cool!

I just purchased a rackmount version of the Sonica D800:

http://www.sonicalabs.com/

It is very quiet (less than 23 dB) and with the front cover on the case I can track acoustics and vox a mere 4 ft from the rack!

The case is too long to close up in a rack - especially if you have dongles, etc. But you wouldn't want to close up a case entirely anyway, because you still need air flow to cool your gear.

Cheers, Rez
 
Instead of the rails, I mounted one of those 2U rack shelves directly underneath, so that when I unscrew the computer, the shelf holds the weight and it's easy to slide in and out.
 
Okay, please indulge reviving an old thread.

So, I can do every bit of recording I want to do with my laptop (core 2 duo, 1.5 gb), an external drive, and my fireface 400. The question is:

If I can fit all the processing I need into such a small box, how come I can't find a whisper-quiet (laptop quiet) 1u rackmount PC?

Any leads?


thanks
 
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