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dell has a bunch of free upgrades and shit so.....
i ordered a dell 4600 2.8GHz P4 with 1gigRAM and a 160gig drive. 17" monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse. if they work well, i'll use them, otherwise they'll go on the present computer.
it should be here sometime within the next month which is fine since i'll be out of town anyway.
now i just have to sell some pedals etc. in order to buy the software and interface of my choice. the steinberg MI4/cubasis SL is still winning. the fact that it has preamps in the interface box means i can dump my bluetube preamp as well. i'm keeping the rack compressor though.
this should be a really good system.
and once i'm used to the software and have suitably moved over all my work, i'll dump the 788. despite my emotional attachment. i made 3 cds on that thing.
so, if anyone wants some of this come fall, keep it in mind:
-presonus bluetube preamp.
-tascam 788 (w/ 10gig drive)
-harman-kardon CDR20 dual deck cd-r audio burner.
-pedals that will go up include:
boss GE-7 (japanese)
DOD vibrothang
dell has a bunch of free upgrades and shit so.....
i ordered a dell 4600 2.8GHz P4 with 1gigRAM and a 160gig drive. 17" monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse. if they work well, i'll use them, otherwise they'll go on the present computer.
it should be here sometime within the next month which is fine since i'll be out of town anyway.
now i just have to sell some pedals etc. in order to buy the software and interface of my choice. the steinberg MI4/cubasis SL is still winning. the fact that it has preamps in the interface box means i can dump my bluetube preamp as well. i'm keeping the rack compressor though.
this should be a really good system.
and once i'm used to the software and have suitably moved over all my work, i'll dump the 788. despite my emotional attachment. i made 3 cds on that thing.
so, if anyone wants some of this come fall, keep it in mind:
-presonus bluetube preamp.
-tascam 788 (w/ 10gig drive)
-harman-kardon CDR20 dual deck cd-r audio burner.
-pedals that will go up include:
boss GE-7 (japanese)
DOD vibrothang
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The computer sounds pretty sweet... especially the gig of RAM. You'll need it...
I'd be interested in the Tascam if I wasn't going to do the same thing pretty soon.
am i really going to notice that? probably not i suppose.
i thought the MI4 had more I/O options too but apparently they aren't that different. steinberg's got MIDI though. i don't use MIDI though but i might since i can use my korg as a controller and play VST instruments.
i'm going to check out both software packages in person though because that will be the deciding factor i guess.
Hey man I'm buying almost exactly the same computer. My roommate had the 4600 you should be very happy with it and the 1 gig of memory.
I'm probably going to get just 512 for now. Hopefully this will get me off my ass so I can share some with you guys.
this lets me dive right into the recording.
once i get back from my work assignment, i'm pretty much just going to whole up for a year and make a cd out of the best of the songs i've written thus far in my life. i'll pretty much just rerecord everything. it'll probably take me a while to get fully comfortable with the software too.
i plan on getting fruity loops for drum tracks/looping and renting a bass from time to time to round things out.
just for fun check out the rogue violin bass from musicians friend.
I know they don't ship to canada, but it's damn cool on sale for $199 Hollowbody bass is hollobody bass. I might get one.
i could do bass within fruity loops but i am hestitant. that's a little too mechanical for me.
when i had a bass, i played it so little it's not worth the investment. renting is so cheap. i'll just rent a nice j-bass and a bass pod and go.
i'm going with the mbox factory with all the joemeek plug-ins and shit. it wasn't that much more for some fun extra toys including a moogerfooger delay model.
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the extra I/O on the interface is nice though. that's the biggest thing i'm going to miss. right now i have 6 ins so i rarely have to juggle cable.
The big problem with RAM is that Windows XP uses so much just by itself.
I love playing with harmonizors....
if it doesn't work out, i'll be stuck getting a firewire drive.
You should be able to partition that drive, it sure as hell is big enough. I'd put a 20GB partition in for the OS and basic computer operation, and then a 140GB partition for music. Of course, you could get a 20 or 40 GB drive to use as your OS drive, and then use the entire 160GB drive for music. A 20 or 40 GB internal drive would be cheaper than an external firewire drive.
Then again, a firewire drive is good to have around, and would make for great portability.