What type of computer do you use for recording?

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Hey folks. Just sittin here wondering what type of computer does everyone use for recording. Heres the specs for mine, lol.

Emachines Computer
Windows XP Home Edition
768 Mb of Ram
40 gig internal hd, 160 gig external
2.6 ghz
celeron processor
m-audio audiophile 2496 soundcard

I know it's horrible! I was thinking about upgrading this, but i wanna get a brand new computer. Thinkin about jumpin on the firewire boat. Here's what i want.

(HP)Comp with Intel Chipset(865 or 875)
Windows XP Home Edition
1-2 gig ram
200-250 gig hd
3.0 ghz Intel Processor
Adaptec 4300 Firewire Card
Presonus Firebox Audio Interface
 
A 550 PIII with 640 Megs of RAM
A 10 Gig drive with the operating system (98 S.E.) and a removable drive bay with the D drive (40 Gigs) for storage, all in a rack mounted case.
I have a MOTU 2408 mkII between the computer and an HD24.
It runs like a champ.
 
I use 2 systems..

First one is a

Pentium D 930 3.0ghz (3.6ghz)
2GB Corsair XMS DDR RAM
4 HD's (4 250GB SATAII/RAID 0/1)
HP Lightscribe 16x DVDRW
M-Audio 24/96
GeForce 7900 GT 256mb

Second one is

Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 2.93ghz
4GB Muskin DDR2 667
4 HD's (4 250GB SATAII/RAID 0/1)
HP Lightscribe 16x DVDRW
dual GeForce 7900GT SLI 256mb
M-Audio Firewire 1814

The first one is the system I usually game & surf the internet with, and my girl uses this one a lot.. The second one is my personal system... Was a hard time convincing my girl that I needed a dedicated system for myself.

btw both systems running Windows XP Pro.
 
15" Macbook Pro, Core Duo 2Ghz.

I dual boot it with OS X and XP Pro. Xp is mostly for games :D, but I do some audio work there. Most audio work is on the Mac side. All video work is on the Mac side.

I have tons of external drives and external sounds stuff, so the laptop mainly serves as a virtual tape machine. Even so, the dual core processor does LOTS of plugs so I can mix in the box to my hearts content. The MBP and an Mbox make a great little mobile editing station or songwriter's scratchpad.

-C

-C
 
Gateway laptop w/ Athlon64-M 4000+ processor
1 Gb RAM
100Gb HD
Mackie Onyx 1220 connected to laptop via Adaptec AFW-1430 PC-Card Firewire interface.
XP Home
 
This system handles everything.
The most tracks i threw at it so far was about 30,with some vstI's,and about 3-4 vst's on each track.
Not a hiccup,and thats with one harddrive. :D

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ socket 939 (2.4ghz)
Epox Motherboard w/ Nvidia Nforce 3
2GB Corsair XMS DDR RAM (Dual Channel)
80 Gig SATA HardDrive
Sony DVDRW Dual Layer
ATI X800 All In Wonder 256mb Graphics card
 
Athlon AMD Socket 754 1.2 GHz
512 MB DDR RAM
80GB Western Digital Hard drive
64 MB GeForce4 420 MX Video Card
17" Viewable Dell monitor

:( :( :(

For what I do, though (mostly acoustic guitar) it works fine.

For bigger mixes, I find myself doing a lot of rendering/bouncing tracks, and it's a pain in the ass.

And to think 5-6 years ago, this was considered a good computer.
 
Systemax™ Venture™
Intel® Desktop Board D975XBX
VX2 Intel®Core™2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB
2GB DDR2
2x250GB SATA RAID 0
1x300GB SATA
DL DVD±RW
DVD-ROM/CD-RW
ATI X1950 XTX 512MB
Flash Reader
Windows® XP Pro
RME FireFace 800
2, KRK Rokit (powered) 8 monitors
 
Mac Mini 1.66Ghz Intel Core Duo with 1gb RAM.



and it runs like a champ :D
 
Mine's a DIY project:

SiS 661FX mobo with a 3.0GHz Intel P4, 1GB RAM
Gnu/Linux, FC3/CCRMA 2.6 SMP kernel
ATI Radeon 7000
2 internal IDE hard drives
2 external IDE hard drives in FireWire enclosures, in a RAID 0 configuration
M-Audio 1010LT
15" NEC LCD monitor
Crappy computer speakers

Don
 
Homemade rig

AMD X2 4400
2 Gigs RAM
80gig OS Drive
2 320gig Storage drives
6600 Video Card
I use a Onyx 1640, and have it all in a rack with my headphone amp, and have my whole studio in like three road cases and a cable bag (aside from stands).
 
Homemade also:

AMD 2002mhz
1g Ram
300g storage on 2 drives
6800 gt
Guitar Tracks Pro 3
Wavelab 4
Presonus Firebox
CADm177, Behringer C2's
Taylor 110
M-Audio BX5's
 
Quicksilver 2002 Power Mac G4 800 MHz
Lacie 160 GB FW HD for the audio
M-Audio Delta 66/Omni I/O interface

The CPU is outside the double studio door in another room, and I have extension monitor and USB cables, so that it can actually be quiet in my studio.

Cheers,

Otto
 
Dell Dimension 3000, Celeron D340, 512MB RAM, 80GB Samsung HD, Audigy SE soundcard, 19" LCD monitor.....
 
macbook pro 2.16ghz core duo. 1gig ram. protools le 7 with a 002r, mbox2 pro, and mbox2. lots of external firewire drives connected on an expresscard 34 firewire card. in the studio i use this with my 23in samsung lcd, external keyboard and mouse. i also have a presonus faderport, which i adore... :) this is by far my favorite setup i have had thus far.
 
PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5GHZ
2.5GB RAM
750GB HD (1x500, 1x260)
DVD-DL burner
Water cooling
NVidia 7800GT
Zalman GPU cooler (to replace the noisy blower)
Cables through the wall (to reduce the noise further)
 
Intel P4 3.0 GHz Northwood
1 GB Corsair TwinX DDR400
400 GB of hard drives
GeForce 7800gs
E-MU 1820

Just sold the PC (less the 1820) for $450...ordered new computer tonight, getting some of the stuff over the next month:

2.0 GHz MacBook Intel Duo Core
2 GB DDR2 533 (I think)
60 GB internal SATA 5400
500 GB external 7200
Presonus FirePod

:D
 
AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 San Diego (2.6ghz)
2GB Patriot Signature RAM
ABIT KN8 SLI mobo
GIGABYTE GV-NX76T256D-RH vid card
WD Caviar 80GB HD (system)
Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA HD (music)
Scythe S-Flex 120mm case fans (super quiet!)
Plextor PX-716A DVD-R/RW drive
OCZ 600W PSU
4U rackmount case
Presonus Firepod
2 Samsung 740BX flat-panel monitors
windows XP

just built it last month and it kicks ass! got a great deal on the proc, since everything is dual core these days, but it's crazy fast for single core. came with a free sata HDD too! my mobo and video card are fanless, and the PSU and case fans are big and quiet. my old case fans used to howl like a pack of wolves! plus it's so much easier to do work on two screens. if you can save up and build the system you truly want, i think it's worth it...better than just buying something off the shelf, plus you don't have to worry about all that crappy bundled software that comes with a store bought PC hogging up your resources.
 
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