Tell us about your DAW

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:59 pm

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD ATHLON XP 2400+
1gb D/C 3200 DDR RAM
120gb Audio + 60gb Application HD's
LG 52x CD/RW
ASUS Ge_Force 4 - 4200 128MB (unneccessary.. i dont play games)
Yorkville Studio Refference Monitors
Presonus Firepod
M-Audio Oxygen 8

NO INTERNET (BY CHOICE) it only causes hastles and it loads like 4 or 5 more services into memory..

My daw is SOLID.. never crashes.. i can have it running for weeks and never have to reboot.. it is S O L I D ..

the only thing i can recommend to people who have issues with speed and or crashing.. is learn about services..

I have a total fo 16 to 17 services running at all times...

Some services to disable if you are interested...

WINDOWS MESSENGER (not MSN Messenger)
TELNET
WINDOWS HELP AND SUPPORT
REMOTE REGISTRY
ALERTER
HUMAN INTERFACE DEVICE ACCESS
REMOTE ACCESS CONNECTION MANAGER
ROUTING AND REMOTE ACCESS
CLIPBOOK

and there is many more..

another thing.. MAKE SURE YOU DISABLE "System Restore" ... god damn that will take a toll on your HD's... and your overall performance..

anyways... any questions pertaining system optimization.. MSG me..

peace

Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:03 pm

CRSBEATZ36 wrote:

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p.s. im selling The delta 66, omni i/o and the sure sm58 all for only $450

because im going to purchasing a pro tools rig here pretty soon

i must advize against protools.. (if your talking MBOX) .. if you are talkin protools HD .. then go for it.. but MBOX you are so limited with two inputs and digitech hardware..

it is expensive and not worth it in the end when you realize you need more..

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:26 pm

I've just recently switched from PC to Laptop for everything:

-Computer
Sony 17" Laptop w/ Dockingstation (I don't use an external LCD since the screen on the laptop is large and widescreen)
1.8ghz Centrino
1 Gig PC3200 Ram
DVD/CD Burner
PCI Express Nvidia GPU
100 GB 5400RPM HDD (For Programs)

-Other
300 GB External Maxtor 7200RPM (For Samples/Audio/Etc) that's puggled into the docking station and easy to take on the road
Tascam FW 1884 Mixing Board/Sound Interface
Alesis MK2 Monitors (Desperate need of an upgrade)
Maudio Oxygen 8 for portable midi.

Running Ableton Live 5 and Nuendo 3.0

The system was built for doing live gigs w/ ableton. Basically I was gettin sick of swapping everything from my Audio PC to my Laptop when needed, so now I use everything all inclusive and am VERY happy w/ the move!

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:11 pm

'Puter #1
Pentium D 830
Asus p5wd2 Premium
2 gb 5400 Corsair (4-4-4-9 Latencies)
19" BenQ LCD FP937s (power supply when in standby kinda makes a tinnitus type noise... not loud but might be damn annoying with 2 side by side in sleep mode...)
17" samsung CRT
2 x seagate 300gb SATA
ATI X300 128mb GFX
RME HDSP 9632 (with the AI4S - AO4S expansion slots mounted in front 3.5" bays)

'Puter # 2 (Fx teleported)
Pentium C 3ghz
asus p4p800 865chipset
2 gig corsair 3200 (2-2-2-5)
intel gigbit PCI lancard (works extremely well with fx teleport... model no: 8391MT)
2 x 80gig HDD (seagate)
Linksys gigabit Switch (again works with fx teleport extremely well)

non 'puter
Edirol PCR-50
m- audio bx8's
2 deks and mixer
a cat and dog

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:21 pm

IBM A30 Desktop
Intel P4 2.66GHZ
XP Home
40GB HD
512 MB RAM
Dell 17" LCD monitor

Planned Upgrades:
Memory > 1GB
HD > 120GB WD Caviar
Outboard HD > 160GB WD Caviar USB 2.0
Computer is stable and surprisingly quiet for an off-the-shelf unit

Software:
Cakewalk Sonar LE

Hardware:
Edirol DA-2496 audio interface
Roland SMPU 64 64 channel 4 port MIDI interface USB 1
Yamaha RY-30 Drum Synthesizer
Yamaha MU90r rack synth
Kawai K1r rack symth (sounds like older Korg M1)
Rode NT1 mic
Peavey Max Bass Preamp
Yamaha MG 12/4 for monitoring & mixed synths into DA-2496
Yamaha MSP5 active monitors

Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:04 pm

My Home Studio

A note on the cooling and power...

I decided to make a concerted effort to reduce noise in the recording environment. So I decided that I would locate power supplies, and cooling devices in the other room and have them come in through the wall behind the built in workstation surround.

The two 4" ducts are intake and exhaust for the cold AC air coming in to and out of the CPU case. An electrical snake cable from the two Antec power supplies running parallel for farming out the extra juice to all drives and peripherals. Koolance radiator is mounted near the Honeywell AC unit in the other room for effective cooling of the CPU core. Two coolant lines for the Koolance CPU cooler block run through the wall and into the CPU case and through the Koolance CPU cooler block.

I mostly went through the above conversion because with all of the drives and the PSUs I needed a lot of noisy cooling, so took the "move it to another room" idea and knocked some holes in the wall under cabnetry, and plumbed the goods through.

With that said, here is the specs list.

Hardware
------------------------
Case
Custom (home shop) Made 6U Aluminum Case
20 x 3.5" drives
8 x 5.25" drives
*NO* case cooling fans
(only moving parts are HD's and Optical Drives, and they are isolated with dynamat and rubber stand-offs for vibration isolation)

Cooling
Koolance CPU-300 Liquid Cooling Head
Honeywell WA1220H Air Conditioner

Power SUpply
2 x Antec TruPower 550's (Master/Slave)

Core
Asus P5WD2 Premium
Pentium D 840 3.2Ghz
8GB RAM (4 x 2GB Crucial DDR2 PC2-4200)

Video
MSI 6800 GT 256MB
2 x Samsung 21.3" 213T Flat Panel Displays

HD I/O
3Ware Escalade 9500S-8 SATA RAID Card
Promise Ultra ATA card (for CD/DVD Burners)

Hard Disks
8 x 400GB Westerd Digital
(techincally capped at 3TB on 3Ware Controller)
5 x 76GB Western Digital Raptors
(3 for OS, 2 for Swap/Scratch Disk)

DVD Writers
6 x Lite-On 16x DL DVD+-R/RW

Special Keyboards/Input
3 XKeys 58 Key units (www.xkeys.com)
Wacom Tablet

XKeys, when Used in conjunction with Perfect Keyboard Pro, you can automate your computer to do nearly anything with a single click of a button. Get one if you don't have one.

Software
------------------------
Windows XP x64 Edition
Perfect Keyboard Pro (mentioned above)
Sonar x64
Propellerhead Reason 3 (up to crap on x64 though, not sure why)
Load of DX and VST/VSTi Plugins

Sound Gear - Rack
------------------------
3 Motu 896HD's
3 Behringer ADA8000's
1 Behringer HA4700 Headphone Amp
3 Line 6 POD XT Pros
1 TC Helicon VoiiceWorks
1 Lexicon PCM91
Various Patchbays

Sound Gear - On Deck
------------------------
1 Mackie Control Universal
2 Mackie Control Universal Extenders
3 XKeys Keyboards (mentioned above)

Sound Gear - Mics/Wireless
------------------------
1 Neumann TLM103
2 Audix DR456 Drum Mic Packs
1 Rode NT4 Stereo Mic
3 AKG Bugs
2 Shure ULXS1430 Headsets
4 Shure ULXS body pack systems

Sound Gear - Monitors
------------------------
2 Mackie HR824 Monitors
1 Mackie HRS820 Sub
6 Shure PSM200 In-ears

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Later!

Wes

Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:15 am

Greetings All,

I’m reasonably happy with what I’ve got, it suits my current amount/pace of work but I’d expect to have to upgrade if I was to use it in a semi-professional/professional capacity.

Computer:
Carillon AC-1 Core 1
Intel motherboard 845E Intel chipset
Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU
QTechnology QT-03400G Gold 400W ATX PSU
1 x Seagate 80GB 7200rpm IDE HDD
1 x Seagate 200GB 7200rpm IDE HDD
LiteOn internal DVD ROM/CD-R/CD-RW combination optical drive
Plextor PX-504UF external (firewire & USB) DVD+R/DVD+RW/CD-R/CD-RW combination optical drive
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB dual head videocard
2 x Digimate 17” TFT video monitors
Labtec wireless keyboard & mouse

Related hardware:
Roland PC-160A MIDI keyboard controller
MOTU MIDI Express XT MIDI interface
MOTU 2408 mk3/PCI-424 audio interface

Software:
Microsoft Windows Home XP (SP2)
Steinberg Cubase SX 3.02
Sonic Foundry* Acid Pro 4.0f
Sony Acid Pro 5.0b
Sonic Foundry* Sound Forge 6.0e
Sony Sound Forge 8.0a
Sony CD Architect 5.2
Image Line FL Studio 4.52
Image Line FL Studio 5.0.2
Propellerhead Reason 2.5
Various demo and/or freeware plug-ins
(*Sonic Foundry has since been purchased by Sony but retains the same staff.)

Other instruments/gear:
Oktava MK220 multi-pattern condenser mic
SE Electronics SE2200 cardioid condenser mic
Beyerdynamic M 300 N cardioid dynamic mic
2 x Sennheiser MD421-II-4 cardioid dynamic mics
Korg M1R MIDI rack module
Peavey electric bass
Suzuki acoustic guitar
Allen & Heath GS3-16 analogue mixing desk
Millennium AB-4 Output selector
Millennium HP 6 Headphone amplifier
EMO Systems Preamp (Stereo RIAA to balanced line)
Drawmer LX20 dual expander/compressor
Lexicon MPX500 dual multi-effects unit
Tech 21 Sansamp PSA-1 guitar modeller/DI
Tascam 202 mkIII double cassette recorder
Cambridge Audio CD4 SE compact disc player
Aiwa AP-2100K belt-drive turntable
Wharfedale Active Diamond bookshelf speakers
Hafler 220 power amp
Event 20/20 passive studio monitors
DIY rockwool acoustic treatment

Future developments will (hopefully) include more & better outboard, a standalone hard disk recorder (e.g. Alesis HD24XR), a ‘mastering’ device (e.g. Tascam DV-RA1000) and, of course, more mics.

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:49 am

Akai DPS 24
Akai MPC 4000
Roland TR-808
Korg Triton le
Art Pro Channel
TC Electronics M-One XL
Behringer Truth monitors
Shure sm57 x 2
Behringer B2 pro x 1
Rode NT1a x 2
Technics 1200's turntables x 2
Vestax turntables (not sure of model) x 2
Pioneer turntalbe (used to sample from) x 1
and a boatload of Mogami cables

Peace,
BEN

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:15 pm

Also an Akai DPS 24...(HI Ben!)
a pair of Tampa's
TC Electronics Triple C
Behringer Pro 2600
M Audio DMP 3 (on the way)
Shure 57, 58, 2 KSM 109's, Beta 52
Marshall V67G
Cad E200
AT 3035
Roland keys, 1/2 a dozen guitars, same ol' crappy drums (pearls fell thru) w a couple of Zildjians and a couple of trashcan lids...
Mogami and ProCo cables...
and a couple other things

Peace.........Kel

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:42 am

Hi, nothing spectacular, mostly for my own self-made recordings and demos for friends and helping record students music for school fundraisers. Progressed from analog 4/8 track recording to Cubase/DAW only 2 yrs ago, so still have much to learn.

Computer:
Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop
3.2 Ghz desktop P4 processor
1 GB dual channel DDR ram 400Mhz
XP Home
60 GB HDD @ 7200 r.p.m
ATI Radeon 9700 128MB ddr
24x CD-RW/ 8xDVD combo drive (Sony)
Echo Indigo I/O PCMCIA soundcard - (recommended !)

Software :
Cubase SX 3.2 (prev. Cubase SE)
Reason 2.5
Wavelab 5
Korg Legacy vsti / NI FM 7 vsti/ tons of downloaded + free vstis and Reason refills etc.
Waves Platinum v5

Music Stuff
2 SM 57 mics
yamaha rgx electric guitar - 2 humbuckers, 1 single coil
Boss guitar effects pedals (ie DS1, CH3 etc)
yamaha guitar amp
yamaha acoustic guitar
edirol USB-midi controller
Motu fastlane USB-midi interface
mackie vlz 1202 mixer
Casio keyboard - but not proud to admit it !!

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:12 am

Finally I found a PC setup I am now satisfied with Very Happy

Asus PL5D2
Intel Pentium 640 2 MB Cache @ 3,66GHz
2x 1024MB DDR2 MDT Ram
Thermaltake Sonic Tower CPU Cooler

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:12 pm

Heres mine.....

Main studio

P4 3.2 775 socket HT off
2 gigs cosiar ddr 400 ram
2 X 160 gig IDE western digital harddisk
2 X 160 gig SATA audio and backup
ASUS P5P800 MOBO
Intel Chipset
ATX tower, 450 watt power supply
UAD-1 Studio Pak, with new plugs
Motu 828 MKII
Truth Monitors
JBL Monitors
2 monitoring systems
Hardware Gear:
BBe sonic maximzer, ap audio patching system, Pod 2.0, Lexicon mx200, Art 2 channel preamp tpsII, Behringher Ultra Gain, Art power conditioner, dbx 32 band eq, behringher compressor/gate, yorkville, 5000poweramp, yamaha 16 channel analouge mixer.

Instruments: Fender stratsx2, fender bass, roland td-20 kit, 3 acoustics, yamaha classical, korg triton, korg karma

Software:
too many vstis to mention, but, my favs are, abby 3, BFD, Groove agent 2.0, Virtual Bassist, edirol ochrestra, linplug, saxlab.

software effects,
URS eqs are great, and the uads ,usally are all i use.....

Moblie system....

Most of the above, when needed, plus

HP, Pavillion, Notebook,
Centrino, 1.73 P4
1 gig, ram
120 gig HD
19 inch widescreen

overall, a great system, cant complain about it.....

there you go.....i have enjoyed, some of the other peoples, DAWs.....

Cheers

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:09 am

i'm on a mac with protools Shocked

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:17 am

Ok here is mine.... (My PC is a bit old but it stll does the job)

- Rackmount case
- 400 PSU
- MSI 850i pro motherboard 400fsb w/oem soundcard
- Intel P4 1.3Ghz
- Syncmax 256MB pc800 rambus memory
- 40GB maxtor EIDE disc (data)
- 18GB seagate 10,000rpm ultra160 SCSI disc (audio)
- adaptec SCSI contoller PCI card
- Echo Gina/24 Audio interface
- ATI 9200se Radeon graphics card w/DVI output
- Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM drive
- Sony CD-RW burner (I forgot the speeds but its fast enough)
- Belkin 10/100 ethernet card
- Westell VersaLink wireless modem (DSL connection)
- 2 19" screens 1600x1200 resolution (I need real estate babe)
(no floppy drive)

My software....

- Win XP pro
- Firewall, Anti-spyware and Anti-virus updated and running
- Cubase SX2 (recording)
- Samplitude 7 pro (mastering)
- A variety of VST and DirectX plugins (including software synths)

My hardware....

- Mackie 24x8 analog mixer
- Alesis M1 MK2 Actives
- Yamaha CS2X Controller
- E-MU xl-1 w/protozoa card installed
- Steinberg Midex8 MIDI Interface
- Sony MDR-7506 and MDV500 cans
- Shure KSM27 and SM58 mics
- DBX 286 mic pre

Theft deterent hardware....

- 2 Glock26 semi-auto pistols w/laser scope
- 2 MP5 Assault riffles
- Night vision goggles w/heat signature capability
- frag grenades
- smoke grenades
Very Happy

Here is a pic of my set-up incase your wondering what it looks like...

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:25 pm

DAW:

G5 iMac 1.8 GHz 17" 2Gig RAM
Logic Pro 7.1.1 / Waveburner

Other Stuff:

Toast & Jam
Peak 5
Altiverb
ValveTone and HydraTone

Mackie Onyx 1640/Firewire card
Lacie D2 external Firewire drive
Good mics

Printer that prints to CD/DVDs

Very pleased with this set-up; it flies! It is very flexible, extremely portable, does everything from recording musicians, to giving them a finished CD with artwork. One negative - - now I'm hooked up to broadband, I'm wasting FAR too much time on the net!

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