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Mastermindzz
New member
What's your setup with N TRACKS- Soundcard, mixer, preamps, cpu, motherboard and your sound quality results, what plugins do you use with this program?
Gidge
Lapdance Test Dummy
Delta Audiophile 2496 soundcard
M-Audio DMP2 preamp
Johnson J-Station for guitar n bass
Fruity Loops for drums
N-Track
HP Pavillion 500mhz celeron with 320mb ram
Maxtor 7200rpm hard drive
Shure sm57 mic
Marshall MXLv67 mic
plugins - anything I can beg, borrow, or steal
sound quality is decent enough
M-Audio DMP2 preamp
Johnson J-Station for guitar n bass
Fruity Loops for drums
N-Track
HP Pavillion 500mhz celeron with 320mb ram
Maxtor 7200rpm hard drive
Shure sm57 mic
Marshall MXLv67 mic
plugins - anything I can beg, borrow, or steal
sound quality is decent enough
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Sangram
New member
Onboard AC 97 Sound
Ensoniq Audio PCI
Windows Mixer (SW)
Mixer and mic preamp (HW, noname)
Coupla mics - no names
Stand
Homebrew mic cable (pretty good stuff, I might add)
Homebrew PC
Duron 750@875 MHz
256 PC133 RAM
Seagate 5400 RPM ATA 66 hard drive (2 years old)
Asus AVL-VM motherboard
Overall sound quality: Good to very Good, depending on time of the day and mood
Plugins used: Freeware only, hehe. Can't pay in dollars where I live
Sang
Ensoniq Audio PCI
Windows Mixer (SW)
Mixer and mic preamp (HW, noname)
Coupla mics - no names
Stand
Homebrew mic cable (pretty good stuff, I might add)
Homebrew PC
Duron 750@875 MHz
256 PC133 RAM
Seagate 5400 RPM ATA 66 hard drive (2 years old)
Asus AVL-VM motherboard
Overall sound quality: Good to very Good, depending on time of the day and mood
Plugins used: Freeware only, hehe. Can't pay in dollars where I live
Sang
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TimOBrien
New member
PII-450Mhz, 384Mb Ram, (2) 20Gb drives, 2x CDRW, 40xCD
Echo Mia AND SBLive soundcards
Behringer Mx-802A mixer
Alesis Nanocompressor
Tascam Porta02 for comps
Johnson J-Station
Plugins from SoundForge5 (Excellent, especially WaveHammer and Acoustic Mirror) and some freebies-- I like Jerome Schmidt's.
Mics: Nady SCM900 condenser and a couple of AKG dynamics.
Recording from AlesisQS8.1 and Yamaha keybords, Fender guitar, Yamaha fretless bass, tenor and alto sax, flute.
Always room for improvement but quality exceeds my capability.
Echo Mia AND SBLive soundcards
Behringer Mx-802A mixer
Alesis Nanocompressor
Tascam Porta02 for comps
Johnson J-Station
Plugins from SoundForge5 (Excellent, especially WaveHammer and Acoustic Mirror) and some freebies-- I like Jerome Schmidt's.
Mics: Nady SCM900 condenser and a couple of AKG dynamics.
Recording from AlesisQS8.1 and Yamaha keybords, Fender guitar, Yamaha fretless bass, tenor and alto sax, flute.
Always room for improvement but quality exceeds my capability.
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T-RAVE
New member
Athlon "Classic" 550
Gigabyte A7V mobo
128 meg
Maxtor 7200 ultra-66 drive
n-track 3.0 (running great!)
waves plug-ins (the best)
Soundforge 5 and plug-ins
fruity 3
cakewalk for midi
sonic foundry noise reduction (essential)
t.c. worx plug-ins
frontier design wavecenter pci
soundblaster platinum
fostex vm200 digital mixer
sure and akg mics
I use wdm drivers and have beem happy so far
Gigabyte A7V mobo
128 meg
Maxtor 7200 ultra-66 drive
n-track 3.0 (running great!)
waves plug-ins (the best)
Soundforge 5 and plug-ins
fruity 3
cakewalk for midi
sonic foundry noise reduction (essential)
t.c. worx plug-ins
frontier design wavecenter pci
soundblaster platinum
fostex vm200 digital mixer
sure and akg mics
I use wdm drivers and have beem happy so far
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Rdub
New member
Current PC which I use for everything plus my audio stuff. I'm in the 'evaluation' phase with all this. If I decide to stay with the PC route(vs. an all-in-one portable unit) for recording, then I'll build a new PC for that purpose.
Self built PII/350 w/128 mb ram
Sound Blaster PCI 128
ART Tube MP preamp
Shure BG4.1 condenser mic (to capture 3 pc. band)
Audix mic (vocals)
N-track plugins
* very impressed with results for being such a rookie - if I go the PC route, I'll probably go with a Delta or Aardvark card - single input basically sucks rocks
Self built PII/350 w/128 mb ram
Sound Blaster PCI 128
ART Tube MP preamp
Shure BG4.1 condenser mic (to capture 3 pc. band)
Audix mic (vocals)
N-track plugins
* very impressed with results for being such a rookie - if I go the PC route, I'll probably go with a Delta or Aardvark card - single input basically sucks rocks
Slackmaster2K
Gone
Homebrew...
Celeron 400 at 500Mhz (upgrading to CII 850MHz next week!)
Abit BE6 R.1 motherboard w/highpoint ATA/66
256MB Cruicial PC133
2 - 7200RPM Maxtor hard drives (15 & 30GB)
Delta44 24bit 4in/4out soundcard
Ensoniq AudioPCI 16bit audio/MIDI/Game card
32MB AGP TNT2 Video (monitor 1)
2MB PCI Trio64 Video (monitor 2)
3Com 100Mbps PCI NIC
MS Optical Mouse & Natural Keyboard
Sony 8x4x32 CDRW
Generic CDROM
Windows 2000
n-Track 3.0
Fruity Loops 3
Drums 2.0
Hundreds of various VST and DX Plugins
ART Tube Mic Pre
MXLV67, MXL603s, SM57, and some cheapo mics
POD 2.0
Event 20/20 monitors/NAD 3020 Amplifier
Average project is 18-24 24bit/48Khz tracks, maybe 10-15 inline EQ's, and several various plugins. CPU is the biggest bottleneck, hence my upgrade next week.
http://www.slackmaster2000.com
Slackmaster 2000
Celeron 400 at 500Mhz (upgrading to CII 850MHz next week!)
Abit BE6 R.1 motherboard w/highpoint ATA/66
256MB Cruicial PC133
2 - 7200RPM Maxtor hard drives (15 & 30GB)
Delta44 24bit 4in/4out soundcard
Ensoniq AudioPCI 16bit audio/MIDI/Game card
32MB AGP TNT2 Video (monitor 1)
2MB PCI Trio64 Video (monitor 2)
3Com 100Mbps PCI NIC
MS Optical Mouse & Natural Keyboard
Sony 8x4x32 CDRW
Generic CDROM
Windows 2000
n-Track 3.0
Fruity Loops 3
Drums 2.0
Hundreds of various VST and DX Plugins
ART Tube Mic Pre
MXLV67, MXL603s, SM57, and some cheapo mics
POD 2.0
Event 20/20 monitors/NAD 3020 Amplifier
Average project is 18-24 24bit/48Khz tracks, maybe 10-15 inline EQ's, and several various plugins. CPU is the biggest bottleneck, hence my upgrade next week.
http://www.slackmaster2000.com
Slackmaster 2000
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DarkFriend
New member
I've got an old system, but it works like a charm:
Pentium 2 - 400Mhz
128MB RAM
Western Digital 7200 RPM 20 GB
Windows 2000 fully optimized
Delta 44
n-Track 2.2 (no thanks on version 3.0)
MAudio Audio Buddy Preamp
I use only free plugins for effects
Shure SM57s and 58s
A host of good guitars and amps
Yamaha W7 synth
Algorhythm for drum parts
I'm getting around 25 tracks with aux effects and some individual effects with no skips or hiccups. I've never touched the buffer settings from the default position. n-Track is so incredible too. I'm getting far better results recording on the cheapo system above, than any results I got in $150/hour studios.
Pentium 2 - 400Mhz
128MB RAM
Western Digital 7200 RPM 20 GB
Windows 2000 fully optimized
Delta 44
n-Track 2.2 (no thanks on version 3.0)
MAudio Audio Buddy Preamp
I use only free plugins for effects
Shure SM57s and 58s
A host of good guitars and amps
Yamaha W7 synth
Algorhythm for drum parts
I'm getting around 25 tracks with aux effects and some individual effects with no skips or hiccups. I've never touched the buffer settings from the default position. n-Track is so incredible too. I'm getting far better results recording on the cheapo system above, than any results I got in $150/hour studios.
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MikeDog
New member
Upgrade GOOD
You won't regret the upgrade. I just went from a Celeron 400 on a BE6 to an Athlon 1200 on a K7E (I think) mobo. The difference was night and day -- where I used to max out at around 10 or 11 tracks with effects, I can now run those same projects using 15% of the CPU. I have yet to do a full project with the new setup, but I can't wait.
Oh, and to keep this slightly on topic...
1.2 GHz Athlon on K7E mobo
320 MB RAM
30 GB Western Digital Ultra 100 HD @ 5400 RPM
Soundblaster Live! (Yeah, I know, but I am a poor grad student)
AriaProII through a trusty Crate amp...
MikeDog
Slackmaster2K said:
You won't regret the upgrade. I just went from a Celeron 400 on a BE6 to an Athlon 1200 on a K7E (I think) mobo. The difference was night and day -- where I used to max out at around 10 or 11 tracks with effects, I can now run those same projects using 15% of the CPU. I have yet to do a full project with the new setup, but I can't wait.
Oh, and to keep this slightly on topic...
1.2 GHz Athlon on K7E mobo
320 MB RAM
30 GB Western Digital Ultra 100 HD @ 5400 RPM
Soundblaster Live! (Yeah, I know, but I am a poor grad student)
AriaProII through a trusty Crate amp...
MikeDog
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notCardio
I walk the line
Gidge - how many tracks?
Just wondered what you can do with a Celeron 500.
Also, did you have any trouble bypassing the onboard sound on your HP?
Just wondered what you can do with a Celeron 500.
Also, did you have any trouble bypassing the onboard sound on your HP?
Gidge
Lapdance Test Dummy
I usually have around 16 tracks of 24bit/44.1khz....using the EQ on N-Tracks "board" and usually 4-6 plugins......as I mentioned in another thread, i have all buffers cranked to pull this off, which means adjustments (eq,faders,etc) are nowhere near realtime, but close enough for me....
as soon as I let my cheap ass off some $$$, Ill upgrade the case,PS, and CPU...maybe an AMD Thunderbird.....that Pavillion is a bitch...had to practically take the whole thing apart to put in that second drive.....
as soon as I let my cheap ass off some $$$, Ill upgrade the case,PS, and CPU...maybe an AMD Thunderbird.....that Pavillion is a bitch...had to practically take the whole thing apart to put in that second drive.....
Gidge
Lapdance Test Dummy
also, no problem disabling the onboard sound....just a matter of going into the BIOS and turning the onboard sound setting to "off"......
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