The adventure begins...

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Armistice

Armistice

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So some of you will have seen my various threads about this and that as I went about the process of retiring my much loved Yamaha AW4416 with full military honours and replacing it with a younger, new, faster and all together better looking new model - aka a PC-based DAW...

So thanks for all the tips and help along the way. I've bought everything, put it all together, downloaded lots of interesting plug-ins and got everything talking to each other in a nice friendly fashion and it hasn't been nearly as horrific an experience as I thought it would be. Quite easy, in fact. Even recorded a dozen demo tracks in a sample song to make sure I could work everything - loaded them up with plugs and got negligible CPU usage.

So the end system goes something like this:

  • HP workstation 'puter with Xeon 3.6GHz, 16GB RAM, Win 7 Pro 64 bit, 128GB SSD and 1TB 'normal' hard drive
  • Added a 27" monitor to the 24" one I already had to give me plenty of screen real estate
  • RME Fireface UCX interface
  • Dynaudio DBM50 monitors

Hadn't intended buying new monitors but it seemed a bit stupid to hobble a new system with my existing Behringer Truths, so, oh well, it's only money...

Best bit? So far, I have no idea what "latency" is... hopefully it will stay that way.

Onwards... now, to record something!
 
Welcome to the 21st century! You will soon wonder why you waited so long to go the DAW route. :drunk:
 
mjbphotos said:
Welcome to the 21st century! You will soon wonder why you waited so long to go the DAW route. :drunk:
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Yeah I was getting tired of everyone else around here being able to do stuff that was a complete pain in the arse, or impossible, on the old Yammie... and then they announced Windows 8 and I thought... "now is the time"...
 
gecko zzed said:
I'm interested in how you get on with these. I've been scouting around for new monitors, but haven't latched onto anything yet.
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I'll let you know how I go gecko. I need to track something, then haul everything into the mixing (aka lounge) room before I'll have any real idea, but I'm guessing I'll hear more detail than the old ones. I'll do a side by side when I get this far, probably a couple of weeks away..

BTW... any thoughts on getting rid of old monitors? I'm thinking there's bugger all demand for this stuff in Australia on eBay, but not really sure what to do with them. I don't really know any other home reccers I could gift them to either...
 
And I totally forgot the most important component!

Lava Lamp.... red/purple... and a proper English Mathmos one, imported especially... (ok, it was a present...) :listeningmusic:
 
All of this new equipment and not a word about a new microphone.
What have you been getting on with so far?
 
moresound said:
All of this new equipment and not a word about a new microphone.
What have you been getting on with so far?
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The armoury consists of an AKG 414, AKG 451, Rode NT2, a couple of MXL603s and an SM57...and a Neumann KMS105 which works quite well as a second mic on acoustic guitars for some reason, despite being a stage vocal mic. Plus I'm sure I have a SM58 around somewhere for hand to hand combat and driving nails. What would you suggest next Henry, knowing what it is I do...?
 
Armistice said:
The armoury consists of an AKG 414, AKG 451, Rode NT2, a couple of MXL603s and an SM57...and a Neumann KMS105 which works quite well as a second mic on acoustic guitars for some reason, despite being a stage vocal mic. Plus I'm sure I have a SM58 around somewhere for hand to hand combat and driving nails. What would you suggest next Henry, knowing what it is I do...?
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You have great results with the locker that you have. though it's only money ;) - splurge on something.
 
Ha.. need to get some more money into the "splurge on gear" fund first... it's kinda emptied out for the next little while...
 
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