Finally :)

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I think I'm gonna be happy with this setup:

Pentium III - 933mhz
448 mb ram
Dual 17" monitors
Delta 1010 soundcard
Mackie 1642VLZ-PRO mixer (8 direct outs going into the 1010)
2 Art TubeMP mic.pre's

It's going to be complete tomorrow

What do you guys think?

Have I finally gotten myself a nice enough setup to be happy for some time?;)
 
Sounds good to me. I'm running the Mackie 1642 with the Delta 1010 and have no complaints.

What are you planning on using the pre's for? Also, what software and mics?

Have I finally gotten myself a nice enough setup to be happy for some time
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I doubt it. There's alway's more stuff. Plugins... better mics... room treatment... just released Version 37.10 of your recording software :)
 
Have I finally gotten myself a nice enough setup to be happy for some time?
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As I said in another thread, I'm hoping to get a PC by the end of the summer that can handle tracking and mixing at 24/96....Try it on your PC, tell me how many tracks with plugins you get :)

As dachay2tnr said, there's always more stuff :). More bits and more kHz....
 
Dont mess it up with shitty mics and by all means make sure you get good cables......
 
I can't find alot of reasons, considering the prices right now, to get a processor below the gigahertz range.
I'm gonna start working on a dual 1.3 ghz system.... should be nice. Hopefully it will satisfy my hungry eq and reverb requirements. :)
 
what are you using for mic and monitor speakers?

maybe the next thing you'd want is a multi effect processor... :)
 
Tube, are most or any of these recording softwares working well with NT? I gave up on "duellies" a couple years back. Couldn't make '98 work with 'em.
 
mic's and stuff

4xSM57
2xSM58
2xNT1000
1xNTK
3xNT3

(yep, I like røde mics) ;)

I'm also getting some mics made for mic'ing of bass cabinets and kick drums

For multifx, I'm using a Lexicon MPX-1

I have yet to get some monitors, but they will be coming along soon too... any good suggestions?


I'm going to be recording both my own band and some other bands.

:)

PS. I have also just finished a studio room.. biig and comfy:)
 
well...

Well, my idea is to be ready for windows XP when it comes out. Everything should run on it as well as it does on 98 or millenium, and it supports duals.
Sonar supposedly runs quite well on win2k, and is designed for it.
Seriously seriously considering a mac with OSx though, and getting DP3 as my main software. Good stuff.
 
RAM

I have heard some people say...
"256 MB RAM is all you"ll ever need. Anything more is over-kill!"

And then I have others saying...
"You can NEVER have enough RAM!!!"

I have the same PC set up as you. i.e. Pent III 933MHz.
I have 128 MB RAM though, and was planning on going down and picking up some RAM in the next few days. but I was wondering how much is "needed"?

I don't use a sampler, hard or soft. I am a one man band, as in I do drum tracks on 4 or 5 Midi tracks, then bass guitar on 1 Midi track, and then add a few sounds here and there on 2 or 3 midi tracks, then I sing on 2 or 3 tracks of audio, and play guitar on 4 or 5 max. audio tracks. That makes:

6 MIDI-tracks
7-8 Audio Tracks at 24 bit / 48KHz recorded throu Logic Audio Platinum v 4.7

I still have the old 5400 rpm hard drive which I hope to upgrade soon.

So the question(s) is/are...

1. Is all RAM created equal? Am I needing SD-RAM, D-RAM etc...?
2. Of all the hundereds of RAM manufactures, is there any REAL difference?
3. Who makes the best 7200 rem HDD's.. Maxtor?
4. Do I really need 512 MB RAM, or will 256 do everything I want, under the above mentioned conditions?

Mike
 
re-calculations

I meant to say earlier

That makes:

9 Midi Tracks
7-8 Audio Tracks
 
Re: RAM

pisces7378 said:

1. Is all RAM created equal? Am I needing SD-RAM, D-RAM etc...?
2. Of all the hundereds of RAM manufactures, is there any REAL difference?
3. Who makes the best 7200 rem HDD's.. Maxtor?
4. Do I really need 512 MB RAM, or will 256 do everything I want, under the above mentioned conditions?
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1. I don't know. I read RAMBUS is not so good.
2. As usual, well known brands are usually preferable.
3. It may not be the best but it's certainly good.
4. For what you do, I don't think so. Unless you feel your applications are running slowly, which would be surprising. The thing is RAM is so cheap these days, when you ARE buying it, why not buy a lot.
 
hey

Greetings,

Someone fill me in on the double monitor thingy?

How does this help you doing recording?...what else would you need to see?

SirRiff
 
Pisces (Mike), don't be at all concerned with Midi tracks, you can have 60 and your computer won't even flinch. Remember, they had midi sequencers back in the Days of Commodore and Amiga, they take almost no power.
 
Dual monitors will act as one very large monitor, however, the image is spread on two screens. For that, you either need two video cards or one dual head video card.
 
Hey pisces7378:

For your computer, your best bet for RAM would be PC133 MHz SDRAM 168-pin DIMMs non-ECC, unless your system supports 184-pin DDR SDRAM which by the sound of what processor you have, it probably doesn't. PC133 is the fastest RAM currently available for your system that's easy to obtain, and most of all, cheap. The non-ECC because for home based PCs, setups generaly use this as it is cheaper, and the two cannot be mixed.
Brand name RAM is the best way to go, as they do better Quality Control on the RAM, and RAM is not one of those you want to try to return. PNY, Kingston, TOshiba, are all good bets. And be sure to ground your body on the chassis of your box simply by touching the metal before you pull out the power cord.

The amount of RAM that you require really depends on the type of work you're doing. When you open an application, that application is using a percentage of Random Access Memory to commit the actions that are currently in process. An average audio editing application could use anywhere from 30 - 60 Mb of your RAM just staying afloat with no processing going on. Say you are using audio tracking software and you are concurrently using software based effects on the incoming signal. This is going to require more RAM to achieve the desired outcome without affecting the incoming/processed signal. If you are using mulitple tracks, say 16+ when doing a mixdown, you need quite a bit of RAM to keep the machine from choking, especially if there are effects on those tracks. This is also keeping in mind that you want to do eveything in realtime, not wait for the computer to catch up to your, thus preventing you from listening to a uninterupted stream of audio. The above example I would not want to try on a machine that has less than 256Mb RAM. If you are not doing 40+ tracks at a time, I wouldn't worry about needing more than 256Mb, but don't try to keep more than a couple of applications open at the same time because like I said, even a dormant application is using RAM; at that said, don't leave a bunch of applications running in your sys tray if you're on Windoz because they're using RAM also.

Hope this helps...
 
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