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Hello my goverment name is Patrick ,but im better off being called Trakz. Im 21 yrs old and have been into recording since the age 10. Its funny how i got started, i happened to go into someone's home who was using a dj mixer through the mic input and recording through acid, I reccomended that he sticks the dj mixer in the line input but he couldnt care less.

So i did the exact same setup but i chose the line in and started on vegas pro 1.0. Years flew and i got introduced to Quartz audiomaster pro 4.5, then Nuendo 1.5 >>>>>. 3.2. I loved the ease of nuendo but hated the internal summing.

Now im a samp junkie, and im breaking my neck to learn it. I hope i grasp on very quickly and continue to do my work. I have finished my personal recording of my album (Xpect da UnXpected) hiphop genre.

I've been using the same gear for the past 4yrs now, (not including the other specs from my win98-me days on another pc).

My current gear is as follows:
p4 2.40ghz
512mb
1 20gb/Os
1 80gb/rec
MAudio Delta 44 (88.2 is where this card shines @)
Mackie Control
Samp 8 (Renting)
Mackie HR-824
KRK V4
Mackie 1202 vlz pro
Rode NTK.
 
My story?...

I met my drummer and close friend Martin in '94, when I placed an ad for a drummer- I'd just moved up here to RI from Miami. We formed up a sort of Pop/Avant-Garde Jam trio that more or less lasted through 10 or so years, and ran a lot of 4-track cassette tape.

Anyway, around 2000 Martin began pulling together a small Mac/ProTools-based studio, and soon after it's inception a big black punctuation mark appeared over all our heads- he got brain cancer. Before he left us, he'd asked me if I could carry it on. Well, having two little ones and supporting our life and mortgage by banging nails, I had neither the time nor bread. So Martin left us, and the studio was liquidated.

A year later, his sister sent me (and 11 other friends of his) $1,000; allegedly from the remaining funding from "ai" ("Artists' Interactive"- Martin's proposed studio co-op). She said, "Do what you'd do if Mart were still here", or to that effect. So, wanting to pick up the ball where I dropped it, I started this little studio thing in our house. It's called "The Laundry Room", and it's been a long, slightly expensive, and pretty twisty road, learning this mostly by myself- through whatever books I can scrounge up, and the several and mostly excellent BBS forums.

Now I'm using n-Track, Cool Edit Pro, and some plug-ins, a primitive small mixer (Tascam M-30), a pair of Near-Fields, some mics, and I've been wrestling with a new interface for the PC. A friend of mine built me a small Rocket of a PC on the cheap, and it's just now starting to take off in earnest. A little room treatment, get this soundcard off the ground, and maybe somebody'll be hearing from the Laundry Room pretty soon.

My system:

AthlonXP 3200+
VIA KT600 (Southbridge 8235)
512MB RAM
ATI Rage 128 vid card
(The above is an upgrade from Celeron 2GHz, and an older VIA chipset, which gave me nothing but fits)
Tascam M-30 mixer
Studiomaster Logic Twelve mixer (for phantom power)
Terratec EWS88MT
Fostex PM0.5's
Logitech Marble-Mouse
n-Track
Cool Edit Pro2
CD Architect
Kjaerhus Classic plug-ins
Some other Freebies...
Waves Rennaissance

I've made some early purchase mistakes, etc. But these things take time! :cool:
 
Double posting AND asking for a sticky?!?

Evil, evil man... :mad:
 
ahhh man, get outa here

Don't come in here crashing n spoiling this party man, theirs other things you can dictate on.
 
This ain't no party



(This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin around)
 
This ain't the Mudd club or CBGBs



I ain't got time for that now
 
Killah_Trakz said:
Don't come in here crashing n spoiling this party man, theirs other things you can dictate on.
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I don't think you get to dictate terms on posts here.......
 
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