With apologies to Paul Simon!
Awhile back I was asking about KVM Extenders, and other ways to get around my loud PSU fan in my basement studio. Well this weekend I was in the unfinished part of my basement straightening up all the boxes of junk we have back there, and I noticed the back of the Cable TV jack, which was on the wall where my PC was. Lighbulbs!!!
I unscrewed the wall jack and I had a nice size hole right around where my workstation was. I unhooked my PC, grabbed an old desk in the unfinished part, plopped the PC on it (to get it off the ground and to help with dust), and I was able to route all my cables from my workstation to the loud PC. I even got the printer and CD-Burner to remain in the studio. Now I just have to walk to the other room when loading a floppy/zip/internal CD-ROM disk.
Now my room is soooo much quieter!!!!! I have to remember to turn off the flurocent overhead light since that would then be the loudest noise. All I'm left with is a slight hum from the AC at the other end of the room.
I have the place Auralex'd so it's pretty dead. I was able to put up my mics (KM184, Soundelux U97) about 2 feet in front of my guitar, crank the gain on my Great River MP2, and my record level (Delta 44) was still only ~ -54. It used to be around -30 in a similar situation. Finally, my guitar recordings sounds like you're listening to it from a few feet away, which is what I wanted all along! With my PSU noise problems, I could't mic more than 1 foot away without having huge noise issues.
So, to all those PC people - get those Computers out of the recording room!!!!!
Now back to your regular scheduled "Where can I download Waves for free on the web?"
Awhile back I was asking about KVM Extenders, and other ways to get around my loud PSU fan in my basement studio. Well this weekend I was in the unfinished part of my basement straightening up all the boxes of junk we have back there, and I noticed the back of the Cable TV jack, which was on the wall where my PC was. Lighbulbs!!!
I unscrewed the wall jack and I had a nice size hole right around where my workstation was. I unhooked my PC, grabbed an old desk in the unfinished part, plopped the PC on it (to get it off the ground and to help with dust), and I was able to route all my cables from my workstation to the loud PC. I even got the printer and CD-Burner to remain in the studio. Now I just have to walk to the other room when loading a floppy/zip/internal CD-ROM disk.
Now my room is soooo much quieter!!!!! I have to remember to turn off the flurocent overhead light since that would then be the loudest noise. All I'm left with is a slight hum from the AC at the other end of the room.
I have the place Auralex'd so it's pretty dead. I was able to put up my mics (KM184, Soundelux U97) about 2 feet in front of my guitar, crank the gain on my Great River MP2, and my record level (Delta 44) was still only ~ -54. It used to be around -30 in a similar situation. Finally, my guitar recordings sounds like you're listening to it from a few feet away, which is what I wanted all along! With my PSU noise problems, I could't mic more than 1 foot away without having huge noise issues.
So, to all those PC people - get those Computers out of the recording room!!!!!
Now back to your regular scheduled "Where can I download Waves for free on the web?"
