brzilian said:
[BEd, are you telling me you use a 16bit, noise infested onboard audio card for your final mixdown?
No wonder you don't have problems recommending Dell's - you have no idea what it takes to produce somewhat pro quality sound - you're just some hobbyist throwing in his $.02! [/B]
I find it interesting that you seem to know how my system sounds, when you have not heard it. I somehow think that "noise infested" might be a little bit over the top. Of course these are the same comments from someone who in another thread was offering advice on how the drivers in Windows 2000 were interchangeable with XP.
Recorded music has been produced for 70+ years. Most of it was produced using gear far less capable that a simple digital recorder and PC based system of today. However that did not stand in their way of making pretty good music.
Sometimes people get caught up in pureists approach to hardware. They become convinced that unless folks are using the absolute best of stuff, what they produce must not be good.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Many decades ago, when I first started as a drummer, I had this position. We were young and had relatively cheap gear mostly from Sears Roebuck. We sounded fair on a good day. I always thought if we could just get better stuff, we be so much better as a band.
We played a small club where some high rollers were patrons. One such person was there and wanted to hear Stardust. None of us had a clue of that song, but it mattered to the club owner. There were these two brothers there who also played and sang. The owner requested that we let them play the song and provide backup.
Larry and Willie steped up to the stage and played the song using our Harmony guitars and Sears ampliers. I played drums. From their first notes, the value of that cheap gear from Sears jumped at least 20 fold. It was that night I learned well that ability and experience make far more difference than suff.
Ed
