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lotness
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Heyas all
Well, I'm relegating the current pc (which I use for gaming, net, downloads, music, everything) to a media pc and I want to get a new pc.
I've got around $1500 Australian to spend. That's about $700 or something in US dollars, not a lot I realise.
But my big choice at the moment is whether to go for a laptop or desktop pc. Until today I was all about desktop pc, because I've always built my own and have no hassles with their maintenance etc. and because I do play games now and then I've never really considered laptops.
Today it hit me though that laptops are now pretty powerful and I could probably game on one just fine if need be. And for recording it would have to be handy just for saving space alone. Not that that is an issue as such. But the convenience of being mobile.. mm..
As far as recording gear goes I don't have much. I'm just a guy doing his own thing at home, nothing too superior.
In the way of gear I am a guitarist first and foremost so I have a few electric guitars, a Maton semi-acoustic, some effects... all that sorta thing. I have a Shure SM58 microphone. An Edirol UA-25 USB sound card which I haven't really used much yet, but I think will be enough for getting some songs together on my own. And that's about it.
The Edirol works ok, though I haven't had it set up in the last 3 months or so. I don't think I worked out the whole monitoring thing properly yet, but that'll come with practice and working out how everything plugs together better.
Anyway, that's where I am at. What are people's experiences with using laptops over desktop pc's for recording. Are they better or worse? Educate me!
Well, I'm relegating the current pc (which I use for gaming, net, downloads, music, everything) to a media pc and I want to get a new pc.
I've got around $1500 Australian to spend. That's about $700 or something in US dollars, not a lot I realise.
But my big choice at the moment is whether to go for a laptop or desktop pc. Until today I was all about desktop pc, because I've always built my own and have no hassles with their maintenance etc. and because I do play games now and then I've never really considered laptops.
Today it hit me though that laptops are now pretty powerful and I could probably game on one just fine if need be. And for recording it would have to be handy just for saving space alone. Not that that is an issue as such. But the convenience of being mobile.. mm..
As far as recording gear goes I don't have much. I'm just a guy doing his own thing at home, nothing too superior.
In the way of gear I am a guitarist first and foremost so I have a few electric guitars, a Maton semi-acoustic, some effects... all that sorta thing. I have a Shure SM58 microphone. An Edirol UA-25 USB sound card which I haven't really used much yet, but I think will be enough for getting some songs together on my own. And that's about it.
The Edirol works ok, though I haven't had it set up in the last 3 months or so. I don't think I worked out the whole monitoring thing properly yet, but that'll come with practice and working out how everything plugs together better.
Anyway, that's where I am at. What are people's experiences with using laptops over desktop pc's for recording. Are they better or worse? Educate me!
