pc or daw?

[randemar]

the korg d1200 for $995 looks tough to beat. all inclusive and i don't have to mess with my pc. any tips, suggestions, words of wisdom? i'm mainly looking to record my singer/songwriter son. mostly vocal, acoustic guitar and harmonica.

my pc is a sony vaio, 1.3 ghz pentium 4, 128mb ram, 60gig drive and analog devices soundMAX integrated digital audio. by the time i upgrade the memory to 512mb, add a 24 bit sound card and a decent mixer i'd be close to $500. am i missing anything (already have akg c1000, c3000b, and various shure dynamic mics.)

thx in advance for any help.

 

[James Argo]

I'll go with PC !!! it's expandable, upgradeable, customizeable, larger monitor to view your work, has a help button, and will DAW bring you here to this forum whenever you have any difficulties / problem ?? PC does !!!


James

 

[Boray]

Just to post some arguments in favour of a DAW (in general): Some are expandable, many are upgradable (even for free), you don't need a big monitor as most of the controls exists in reality and not only on the screen... But you can connect a monitor and a mouse to some of the more expensive ones anyway. DAWs are often more stable and they are portable. And they don't get infected by computer viruses!

 

[PeteHalo]

Forget about the Korg and get a Fostex VF160 and an adat soundcard for your computer. Less than $1000 gives you 8 channel simultaneous recording both as standalone or direct to computer. You'll get the best of both worlds.