my current setup

A little tight on space huh? Know the feeling. My only suggestion is to find a way to get your monitors a little farther apart. Judging from the picture, you may not have any choice in the matter, but try to find a way to move them apart and back, so that your head and the monitors make a larger equilateral triangle.

Otherwise, good luck with the compy...I built mine two years ago and it still handles 24+(never really needed more) tracks with all kinds of automation, effects, and VSTi's. Sometimes DIY is the only way to go.

^ yeah im tight on space...currently i am over hauling my studio room to go adat digital. New computer, new desk, new monitors.
can't wait to record, i'll post some pics soon!

here is my new computer that im building
specs:
MoBo = DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D
Graphics card = GForce 6200 128
Sound card = VSL 2020
PSU = VANTEC ION2 460W
CPU = AMD 64 |3000+ ATHLON 64 939P
Ram = DDR 512MB X2 400
HDD = 200GB SAMSUNG SATA II
DVD burner

asus vento 3600 case

installing the 64 bit DFI mobo w/ the AMD 939 venice core processor

me and the 450 watt PSU

hooking up the psu and the 200mb samsung SATA II hardrives

front view of case kinda blurry

the case box was so big my sister could fit in it!

fatman wrote:
the case box was so big my sister could fit in it!

HEY NOW! Better hope she doesn't read this...

"What's THAT supposed to mean!"

"And that's when I shot him your honor..."

I've been drooling over that Asus case for a while.

The only question holding me back: is it quiet? With two 120mm fans it seems like it would be, but you never know. So let me know.
If you have an SPL meter of something common to compare the noise level to, that would really help.

I have two questions:

One..is indeed the noise levels of the case and where does the beer go? :shock: lol

Two..what type of snake is that in the cage?! :D

Opus :D

As long as we're scrutinzing photos...

Something caught my eye and made me curious. The left arm doing the HD install (assumed yours) and your sister's right arm have similar markings at the wrist. What are those?

ok first things first the case is awesome looking!
but for me it might have been the wrong choice

1. the case has two fans 120mm back 80mm on the front intake. Total fans in for the pc is six:
80mm fan front
mobo fan
video card fan
processor fan
120mm psu fan
120mm rear fan
everything is super quite and barely audible I mean my xbox is louder than this.****edit**** the case is audible and the fan exterior fan is audible but the fans inside are quiet because of the case exterior, the DVD drive is louder than all of them when its spinning

2. the case is just so big, too big for me. I just bought a new recording desk and the case fits underneath but i can't open the front shield to put in a CD, sux! i had to stand in next to the desk

3. the case is bassically an old looking chasis on the inside and fancy plastic on the outside.

second

the snake in the terriaum is a small python i think. its my sisters shes a zooalogist or whatever. watching it eat rats is awesome.

second the other guy with the tatoo is my bro-law
do the math...ok so they got matching tatoos
which happen to be the 1UP mushroom from
super mario brothers

fatman wrote: second the other guy with the tatoo is my bro-law
do the math...ok so they got matching tatoos
which happen to be the 1UP mushroom from
super mario brothers

That's awesome.

Hey Fatman,

LOL very cool case~

i guess everyone was too busy oogling your case they missed this

MoBo = DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D

very bad choice for pro audio.

nforce 4 and pro audio dont mix (pun intended)

Scott
ADK

^ why is that?

HI ,
do a search for PCIe here and in any other forum

or
http://recording.org/resources/recording-computers.300/

and yes i have tested that exact mobo

Scott

one little note.
for light duty it will work ok.
when you upgrade to the dual core AMD then it will be ok.
(sheer horse power)

Scott

Thanx for the info, I was deffenitely not aware of the strife between PCI and PCIexpress. According the the second site it recomended to have a Gforce 6200 a low end card which I do have!
Hopefully everything will work out fine I still haven't recieved my soundcard so I haven't recorded yet.

Hey Fatman,

with AMD and nforce 4 its a no go. regardless of video card.

the lower powered video card thing only applies the Intel 915/925 chipsets.

it dont matter what video card you put in an Nforce 4 they are horrible for audio.

Scott
ADK

i'll just have to wait and see, i probably can sell the mobo and processor, and get a different one later on

the finished product

main desk with speakers

the asus vento

the studio, kinda blurry

How big is that room?

Do you like those Behringer monitors? If that is what they are. I have those Edirol's and think they SUCK. I am thinking about converting my extra bedroom into something similar at least until I get my studio building finished.

the room is about 12'x11' not that big, but large enough

Yes those are my new behringer b2031a monitors. I haven't recording with them yet but I imediately noticed that they are really flat sounding compared to my edirols. And they weigh alot too! Ive never had good studio monitors but im guessing thats how typical monitors wieght

Even though the Edirols suck, they're a hell of alot better than computer speakers and 5.1 systems. I like the fact they basicaly have every input selection you would ever need

hey fatman...
which edirols are those?
how loud do they get?

Those edirols get pretty loud actually but its hard to get any bass whatsoever from them I think. I have been eying those b2031's for a while.

there only 10 watts each, and they can get decetly loud with a pre-amp.
right now there on the same amp as the beheringers and you can hear ehm even when you turn it up

How does it work out for you being in the same room as the drums. My room is a little bigger than that actually, but I am afraid to be in the same room as the kit. Right now I am setting the kit up in the living room and tearing it down each session. Putting vox and guitar in a closet i have sounding really good.

well i really can't put them anywere else, but it would be great to have a control room where i could set up my daw. I've always recorded the drums in the same room as the daw, you could check my recordings to see if it makes a difference.

What kind of interface are you running in that picture? I see the preamp but how are you getting that to the DAW?

geeknik wrote: What kind of interface are you running in that picture? I see the preamp but how are you getting that to the DAW?

I got a new (recently discontinued) VSL 2020 sound card supports 16 channels of ADAT recording, so i can buy another behringer ADA8000 and I can record 16 channels . For a price of $195 I couldn't resist.

****Good News****
I got the sound card installed it and updated the drives set the ASIO recording drivers and recorded 8 indipendent channels simultaneosly for the first time in my life. Hooray for digital recording. I still have to play around with the everything but its a huge advancement for me in recording. Now i can record every drum individually and eque them and all that good stuff! i now say good bye to two channel recording with my old audigy 2.