Incoherent Ramblings About Stuff

[legba235]

I want to get into hard disk recording. I currently have a tascam porta 07, a 12 channel mixer (I cant remember the brand off hand but its ok), a small PA system, and a couple of sure sm57’s (I need more mics).

Copmputer wise I have a Pentium 233mmx, plextor 8/20 cdr (scsi), 64 meg ram, and a slow hard drive 5400 ide (hope to get a 7200 or 10000 soon). I don’t have a sound card w/ a line in jack. Should I go w/ a scsi hard drive?

I am currently evaluating cool edit pro, should I look at cubase and pro tools also, but haven’t done any hardcore mixing as of yet.

I really want to start out w/ a good sound card possibly a Wave 8/24. I was also looking at the Aark24 but was some what pricey but within my budget (what do you think?). I want to be able to mike a drum set so I want the ability to record at least 8 simultaneous tracks. I just don’t want to get anything that I wont be able to use down the road as I add onto this thing. I am going to build a PC dedicated to recording and was wondering if the new software packages (cool edit pro, pro tools, cubase) utilize dual processors? If so I will go that route.

Any suggestions or comments would greatly be appreciated.

Kevin

 

[tutton]

Hi legba235

You sound like your a guitarist with the 2 sm57's there....But I would go with the 7200 RPM ide drive it will be fine for now.

Brilliant cdr there, you should look at bumping the Chip and M/Board up if anything with the money you'll save on not buyin the SCSI drive and 128 Meg should be minimum if your planning on running 98 or Win2000.

And after some info that I read last night
at
http://www.digido.com/

I would be definatly be going with a 24 bit S/card. Why dont you check out the LynxOne at

http://www.lynxstudio.com/

for software have a look at SoundForge 4.5 at SonicFoundry
and Logic Audio Silver at Emagic

Tony

 

[pglewis]

Sound Forge 4.5 doesn't support 24-bit, unfortunately.