My DAW

Hi, i haven't got it yet but this is what i have in mind for my DAW, am i making the right choices?

Processor - AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ Dual Core AM2
MoBo - ASUS MV2 Athlon 64 x2
RAM - Kingston 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB)
Boot HD - 80GB Westerndigital Caviar SE ATA
Audio HD - 160GB Westerndigital Caviar SE SATA
Graphics - 128MB MSI Radeon X300SE
Burner - Samsung SH - S182D
PSU - Zalman ZM360B - APS (360W)

Is the Prcessor + MoBo compo ok?

Can anyone suggest a interface/soundcard around £300 that would run smooth with the MoBo?

Plus any other comment (good or bad) welcome?

thanks Ern :D

INTEL Core2 Duo E6400 2x 2.13GHz S775 ........

Hi

I bought a very professional PC six months ago at : Digital Audio NetworX

http://www.da-x.de from Germany.

-19" ALUCASE, 5 DriveSlots
-PowerSupply 430 W, low noise
-ASUS Mainboard P5B Deluxe, 8xS-Ata, 3 x PCI, 2 x PCI-E, Firewire, USB
2.0, no fan!
-INTEL Core2 Duo E6400 2x 2.13GHz S775
-CPU-Cooler, Heatpipe-Cooler, plus temp.controlled 90mm FAN
-2048MB DDR2RAM
-GGraphic Card ATI Chipsatz, 1 x DVI, 2 x RGB DualHead
-HD 300GB Samsung, S-ATA, 7200rpm
-LG DVD+- Burner, DualLayer
-Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition OEM

for about 1440,- Euros ...

... i ve ordered also a Silent-Kit for a really Low Noise Computer

best you write an email to the guy ...

info@da-x.de

follow this link for further information:

http://www.da-x.de/product_info.php/info/p8647_Pro-Audioworkstation-965-Co

re2Duo.html

cheers,
Steffen 8)

Hey, I am just setting up a DAW and have come up with the following list, will anyone be able to tell me what they think of it?

Here goes:

CPU = Intel Pentium D 930 Presler 3.0GHz 2 x 2MB - £86.49
Motherboard = Asus P5WD2 Premium
RAM = Corsair XMS2 (2X 1 GB)
Hard drive = Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB £23 PATA for windows etc and Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB S300 for £70.50 for all recordings
Sound card = M Audio Delta 44 £99.83
Colors-IT 8001 - 4 In 1 Kit with a 400 watt PSU

Please tell me what you think before I buy

Thanks

PC
-Intel Duo core 2 (2.8 ghzx2)
-3gb ram
-250 gb SATA hd (x2 500 gb total)
-Radeon x1600 512mb

Recording
-Roland Edirol UA 101 USB audio interface (10 in 10 out)
-Crate CSX 12 track mixing board
-Sonar 5 producer edition

Mics
-Shure instrument mics (x4)
-Shure vocal mic
-Samson Drum Kit mics (5)

Mainly used to mic up amps, and my drum kit.
Live recording Is a breeze...

My gearlist:
http://www.zabamusic.ch/Gearlist.pdf

what i got

STUDIO A:

DAW
Logic Pro-7
Macpro Quad intel
Macpro 8-core intel(node)
3-Motu HD-192's
Tascam FW-1884 controller with 2FE-8's
Dual screen array

PLUGINS
Waves Diamond Bundle
Waves SSL/400 bundle
Drumagog Platinum
Synthogy's Ivory with Italian Grand bundle
and a host of other's, but those are the most used.

PRE's
Avalon VT-737
Joe Meek 1-Q
Presonus ADL-600
Focusrite ISA-428
Focusrite Red-1
AEA Ribbon Pre
(2)Avalon U-5's
Vinech 473
Mackie Onyx 1620
SSL XRack with 4 pre units and 4 compressor units

MONITORS
Adam Audio S2-A's with Sub-6
JBL LSR-6332's with LSR-6312 sub (MAINS)
Yamaha HSM80's
Dangeroud Music Monitor controller

MICS
U87
TLM-103
Mojavi MA-200
2 Mojavi MA-100's
(2)Royer R-121s
Shure KSM-44
Soundelux u-195
(2) beyer m130
(2)earthworks TC-25's
Earthworks SR-25
(2)Rode NTK's
(2)SM58's
(6)sm57s
Beta-52
EV-RE-20
(2)SENN...441's
Shure
PG52
(2)PG81s
(3)pg56's
Modded Nady RSM-2
Blue 8ball

STUDIO B/mainly voiceovers,Hip hop, and Video Post production

DAW
G4 Powermac
Pro Tools LE
DV Toolkit
Sony Oxford Dynamics and EQ
TC Powercore

PRE's
Avalon VT-737
U-A 2610

MONITORS
KRK V-6's

MICS
U87
tlm103
EV-re20

Be Blessed

Antec p180 case (black)
Asus m2n-e motherboard
Athlon x2 5600
Zalman cpu cooler
2gb Kingston memory
Asus 7600gs video card (fanless)
Siig firewire card
4 Western digital WD1600aajs single platter 160gb hard drives
ENERMAX Noisetaker II 600W Power Supply
Lynx Two-C audio interface
Running Cubase 4

It's a Sonica Hush T2. Lovely. I also use a Dell 1505, dual core with a 7200 rpm hard drive and a gig of ram. Good work horse of a laptop with a reasonable price tag and extended service warranty.

My Setup

Hey all,

currently running;

15" MacBook Pro 2ghz 2Gb 100gb
Echo Audiofire 4
Logic Pro 7
Plogue Bidule
500gb ext HDD
M-Audio UNO usb
CME UF6

P4 3.2Ghz
2Gb
various HDDs :D
EMU 1820
Plogue Bidule
Cubase VST

Korg ER-1 MKII
TC Electronic M300
Yamaha MJC8
Alesis S4

Yamaha MG12/4
KRK Rokit6 on Mopads
Audio Technica AT4040
Shuttle Pro2 controller

Sony MDS-JE520 Minidisc Deck

Use this mainly for sound design and making electronic music. Am a Music Informatics student so used for some composition and programming.

Just built a massive workstation on a student budget that is solid as rock from 2 by 4 and mdf - has built in racks too!

Anyone on a budget and interested in designs give me a shout 8-)

Hi everybody, this is my rig as of now, about 1 month after I've started recording.

Pentium D 2,8 GHz computer running Windows XP Media Center Edition (the worst version available, I'm looking forward to changing this soon), 1 GB RAM, running Cubase LE3 (I try to keep it as legal as I can, came with hardware).

Yamaha PSR140 (probably the worst keyboard you'll ever hear of...looking at a Yamaha S90ES for soon purchase), plugged with M-Audio Midisport UNO to computer.

Presonus Firebox, with a Shure SM57, used for mic'ing of guitars (steel and nylon string acoustics, and electric guitar amplifier), and flute.

Everything there is for my own needs, being a single songwriter, recording track by track.

Computer:
2007 20' iMac (2gigs, etc..)

hardware:
Line 6 toneport ux2
M-audio 75w studio monitors
oxygen 8 midi keystation
at 2020 condenser mic package

software:
Logic pro 8
Reason 3
Gearbox
(i have sonar on bootcamp with soundforge)

I plan on getting a presonus rack interface soon an possibly get an academic version of pro tools to learn.

Computer:
2007 20' iMac (2gigs, etc..)

hardware:
Line 6 toneport ux2
M-audio 75w studio monitors
oxygen 8 midi keystation
at 2020 condenser mic package

software:
Logic pro 8
Reason 3
Gearbox
(i have sonar on bootcamp with soundforge)

I plan on getting a presonus rack interface soon an possibly get an academic version of pro tools to learn.

Hey, I'm pretty new to this forum, and to digital music production in general :roll:... But I'll be glad to learn from this forum, seeing most of you are probably very experienced.

My Daw:

Emu 0404USB interface, (As I said, I'm a begginer:P)

Intel core 2 Quad q6600 @2.4GHZ (I'm thinking about OverClocking)
2gb ddrII ram, T800UX2GC4-Supertalent
Asus-Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB (Taken from my previous rig)
Asus p5KR MOBO,
Gigabyte poseidon chassis
tuniq tower 120 cooler
500GB RAID 2, 2*WD2500AAKS

I'm learning to use cubase sx 3 at the moment, And don't think that'll change.

I record only guitars through my EMU... (I'm 15, can't afford a mic to record other things), and use midi for the rest. (Bass, drums[EZdrummer], synths[spectrasonics atmosphere] etc.

My guitar recording is mainly through guitar rig 3...

If I get a bass guitar someday, I guess Trilogy will be off the midi list :)

Tried sonar 7 and really didn't favour the inteface, and I find cubase rather intuitive.

I record mainly anything that comes to mind. Though I still haven't tried assembling a full song. I'm making 1 minute long pieces usually, still learning cubase... (Yeah, I'm ridiculously a newbie to recording.)

My Mobile Rig

Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz Intel Macbook
2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM
80GB HD
200GB Lacie
(In a 4U rack bag)
Furman Power Conditioner
Focusrite Octopre w/Adat Card
Digi002R

PT 7.1.4

Main Rig

Intel Q6600
Asus P5K - Deluxe
2 gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800mhz
nVidia Geforce 8800 GTX
FireFace 800
Windows Vista 64 bit
Presonus HP4
KRK Rokit Powerd 5 x 2
Boot HHD: WD Raptor 150 gb
Music HDD: Seagate Barricuda 200 gb
Storage HDD's: Seagate Barricuda 500 gb x 2, Seagate Barricuda 200 gb x 2.
Antec P180

I use two computers, the old DAW with all the extra programs and a lot of stuff that I never used, and the new DAW

I network all the computers in our home, 5 in total.

****The new DAW****
A Mother of a board :lol: - ASUS M2N-E with (bios-10 upgrade)

The Heart - AMD 64 X2 6000 ~ 4G 800 DDR2

The soul - windows XP PRO 64 EDITION (window should be called a demon)

The Program - SONAR 6 Producer Edition 64 bit mode;

The head ack - MOTU 828 mkll 64 bit install and drivers.

-I think the power sup is a 550 watt
-I went with a large fan in the back to reduce noise (?)
- I use a PV 20 mixer just to jump the inserts to the MOTU

The sends from the MOTU come out to a multi effects processor that seems to be just for mic compression to avoid cliping :roll:
Thats a digitech VR vocal harmenizer above it that the sends travels through on its way out of the compressor.

dual networked PCz, digital 7ch amp/reciever, compact player and dual tape recorder with dynamics recording processor.

two Philips speakers and Yamaha keys.
TV monitor connected to computers

My basement studio is 18 x 13 feet but is still crowded as you can see.

ITS A LONG WAY, TO THE TOP, WHEN YOU ROCK AND ROLL OLL OLL

im just starting to build a simple system
all i have is a 16-16-2 soundcraft mixer
echo layla 20 :oops:
and sonar 6 producer
and a P4 PC,im not even sure whats in it,my other guitar player built it from parts he had laying around
it works with no latency
you got to start somewhere 8)

Thats a great start man. Most of use started with store bought stuff. The sonar-6 PE is all you will need for a long time.

Paris Pro System
4 input cards -32 inputs
4 eds x cards - 60 channels
2 output cards -16 channels
1 adat card- 8 adat ins outs
Aardsync clock
UA 1176 limiter
Art Pro VLA Limiter
Art MPA Pre
16 channels DIY preamps (Forssell 993 jfet based/lundahl Input)

Rack mount G4 dual 1.25 GHZ with 500 gig sata drives via firmtek
2 Neumann tlm 103
2 THE small condenser
Home made tube omni pair
various other stuff

I love the Paris Sound
I think its great but a legacy system without a lot of whistles and bells.

Paris Pro System
4 input cards -32 inputs
4 eds x cards - 60 channels
2 output cards -16 channels
1 adat card- 8 adat ins outs
Aardsync clock
UA 1176 limiter
Art Pro VLA Limiter
Art MPA Pre
16 channels DIY preamps (Forssell 993 jfet based/lundahl Input)

Rack mount G4 dual 1.25 GHZ with 500 gig sata drives via firmtek
2 Neumann tlm 103
2 THE small condenser
Home made tube omni pair
various other stuff

I love the Paris Sound

I think its great but a legacy system without a lot of whistles and bells.

Just built this one two weeks ago

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 Ghz
4GB DDRAM 800mghz
XFX SLI 680i motherboard 1333 front side bus (SLI disabled)
250 Gig Seagate 16mb cache Sata 3gigs a second
Light-on DVD-R/RW Combo drive

Windows Pro x64

Ableton Live 6 and many VSTI plugs

This system is awesome! I just built it two weeks ago. I have yet to have any trouble at all to this point. You'll notice the XFX motherboard. I picked this board even though it was designed for hardcore gamers, I figured it would be great for recording also. I do not use the SLI feature since this is a workstation. The board is also upgradable so if I wanted to maybe get an intel extreme processor or something like that I could. And I still have two more slots for ram for a total of 8gbs of dual channel.

All this can be built with a nice case and power supply for around 700 dollars.

This question is for BWAMC:
I noticed the KRK monitors. How are these working out for you? I'm looking for a good accurate set but I cannot afford the upper class.
Thanks,
Jesse

dual core 2 gigs
dual monitors
m audio speakers

002 audio interphase
pro sonus ERUREKA preamp
DBX tube warmer preamp
berringer head phone amp
shure wireless in ears
anteras AVP-1

cubase SX3 for tracking protools for mixing
too many mics to list
too much money spent on plugins (waves, p2p, oxford, anteras, blah blah)

i seriously recommend the 002, it is unbelievable

Puters:

Main Workstation
-------------------
- Intel 2GHz Core2 Duo iMac
- 3GB RAM, 160 GB SATA 7200 RPM HD
- Various 7200 RPM HDs in removable tray enclosures
- Apogee Mini-ME for A/D
- Extended desktop (iMac 17" and extra 20.1" LCD)
- Logic Studio 8
- Final Cut Studio 2

Extended Workstation / Distributed processor
------------------------
- Intel 2GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro
- 2GB RAM, 160 GB SATA 5400 RPM
- Reason 4
- Final Cut Studio 2
- Logic Studio 8 (Live Stage)
- Logic Node for use with main workstation
- Node for Compressor

Old Skool workstation
------------------
- Apple PPC 333MHz G3 Beige G3
- MAudio Delta 66 PCI audio interface
- Software for various outboard old skool gear

Noise Makers:

- Ensoniq ASR-10
- Ensoniq ESQ-1
- Ensoniq DP/4+
- Korg MonoPoly
- Shiny Red Ibanez Guitar (really just for noise)
- Various hand percussion

Recording support:

- Motu MTP AV (both serial and USB versions)
- Otari DAT deck (mostly for D/A for laptop)
- Peavey PC1600x MIDI controller
- BlueTube DP preamp
- Alesis RA150 AMP
- Alesis Monitor One MKII monitors
- KRK 10" sub
- DBX 223XL crossover
- Soundcraft Spirit E12 mixer
- Switchcraft 52 point patchbay
- Furman AR-1215 power conditioning
- HHB MDP500 PortaDisc (Mini Disc) recorder
- Mogami wiring throughout the studio
- pretty decent sound treatment

Mics:

- AT2020, AT2021, AKG C1000s

+ No mechanical noise in the studio at all
+ Awesome writing/room, very flexible
- Loud neighborhood kids

COMPUTER
HP Athlon 64x2 6000 (very quiet BTW)
Dual 3ghz
3Gigs ram
2x300Gigs hard drives
Dual Monitors

RECORDING DAW
Presonus Firepod
KRK RP5
Cubase 4
Waves (love C4 3 band compressor BTW)
Blue Tubes
Stylus RMX (All expanders)
Atmosphere
Fruty loops

PROCESING
3630 Comps x2
m300

MIKES
3xBeta 58's
3xSM57's
1xAT2020
1xAT4050
3xAKG C1000

INSTRUMENS
Korg trinity plus
Parker guitar
Roland effects

All of this has been working perfect for the last couple of months because I just upgraded from Cubase Le to Cubase 4 and upgraded the computer too from an HP 3.2ghz to a dual 3.0 Ghz. Had a little problem installing the drivers on vista but it was fix with a firmware upgrade.

Zoro
http://www.produccionestecate.com

Below is the list of gear I'm waiting anxiously to arrive. (The computer and Fireface).
The rest of the gear and softeware I already own and use. I will be selling of my last computer and dual Yamaha DSP 2416 mixfactory cards with proprietary ADB 8 channel 24 bit converter breakout box. if anyone is shopping.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHZ 1066FSB 8MB

ASUS P5K-E MoBo

Antec P182 midtower case

G.SKILL F2 -4GB DDR2-1066 Dual Channel Memo

Pioneer DVR-212D Black DVD-RW 18X6X18 DVD+RW

Western Digital Raptor 150GB SATA 10KRPM 16MB

Syba SD-ATA133R PCI Ultra ATA/133 IDE Host Controller ( SIL 0680 ) with RAID 0/1/0+1

Gigabyte Gf 8600GT 600MHZ 512MB GDDR2 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out DIRECTX10 Passive Video Card

Scythe Ninja Copper 6 Heatpipe Fanless Heatsink

Corsair TX650W 650W ATX 12V 52A 24PIN ATX Power Supply

Twin led Monitors

3 Various size extra Hard Drives

RME Fireface 800

Mackie Universal controller

Nuendo 3
Wavelab 5
Waves Mercury
TC Works V3 Native Bundle plugins
Antares Autotune
BBE Sonic Maximizer
TL Audio EQ-1

Peavey VMPII Stereo Tube preamp
Brent Avrill Neve 3405 Microphone Preamps (4 channels)
Millennia Media HV-3 Microphone Preamps (2 Channels)
Sytek MPX-4Aii (4 channels)

* Tannoy PBM 8 monitors
* AKG 240M headphones (6)
* MoreMe Studio Deluxe (2)
* AKG 414 Headphones
* Sony 7506 Headphones

* AKG C28 w/Red B6 capsule
* AKG C452EB w/ck1 capsule and Blue B7 capsules
* AKG C451EB w/ck1 capsule
* AKG 1200e's (2)
* AT 4050 (2)
* At 4047
* AT 4041
* AT C87
* ATM 25
* AT 808G
* Blue Babybottle
* Blueberry
* Beyer Dynamic M160DX Ribbon
* EV 408's (2)
* Josephson C42 (2) A Matched Pair
* Marshall 603 (2)
* Naiant Studio MSH-1 Omni Directional Condensers(2)Matched pair
* Octava MC012 w/ 3 small diaphragm capsules and Lomo M1 lollipop capsule
* Realistic PZM
* Sennheiser K3
* Shure SM58
* Kel HM1
* BSS DI
* Imp 2 DI

Dos wrote: This is Ridiculous!!!!!!!!
Nobody reads anybody elses!!
Why would you waste your time listing your components!

No offense, but next time you all are sitting down to list the parts in your daws, just stop and think wtf am i wasting my time for.

I read quite a few since I just order my new system a couple of days ago. I wish this thread had come up sooner so I could have compared systems and prices here and asked folks how happy they were with there choices.
Instead I looked at the sites of folks custom building Daw computers on line and checked there components for various priced systems and picked what seemed pretty high end and got the local shop to build it for $25 bucks since I bought all the parts from them.

a)MAC Pro 2.66 Quad - Pro Tools HD2 Accel PCI-E with 192 I/O DIgital and 24 bit Adat Bridge. Mc DSP Emerald Bundle, PSP plug-ins, Digi stuff.

b)MAc G4 800 - Pro Tools Mix Plus TDM PCI with 2 Adat Bridges. Waves TDm Bundle, PSP plug-ins, TC works, etc.

DYnaudio BM6A monitoring, Yamaha02R96, Yamaha 01V96, Sebatron pres, Pendulum OL2 MAstering Compressor/limiter, over 23 condensers from Audio Technica, AKG, SHure, Neumann, Avlex, GT.

Computer
Mac G4 MDD dual 1GHZ with 1.25GB RAM
OWC Neptune 80GB External HD (FW) w/ Oxford 911+ chipset
Dual Viewsonic 17" VA720 monitors

Audio Hardware
MOTU 828mkII (FW)
Mackie 1604vlz
Presonus HP4 headphone amplifier
KRK RP8 Powered Studio Monitors
Alesis RA-100 Studio amp for 2 mains (alternate listening source)

Mics (definitely my weak link)
4- sm57's
1- AKG Perception 200 LDC
7- nady mics (2 SDC's, 4 MF dynamics, 1 LF dynamic) that all sound decent (surprisingly)

Instruments (Including my band's session stuff)
6pc Maple DW drumkit 10,12,13,14,16,22 (my pride and joy)
Small Marshall tube combo amp (love it)
Larger Marshall solid state amp
Fender 2x12 bass cab (killer)
2 Gibsons, 2 Epiphones, Ibanez Bass

good stuff, it works for me so far.

hi..this what i have..

production studio
mac G5
250 giga HDD
tascam M_3500 32 channel mixer
digi 002 protools
fostex E_16 multitrack recorder
ART DPS_2 tube pre amp
ART compressor-limiter SC2
BEHRINGER hedphone amp
LEM power amp
YAMAHA NS10 studio monitor
JBL S26 studio monitor
AKG C 4000 MIC
AKG C 3000 mic
RODE NT 1000 mic (pair)
protoolS 7.3
NUENDO SX3
WAVES EFFECTS

PRIVET STUDIO
P4 3.01
4giga ram
MACKIE 16 channel mixer
RME FIREFACE 400
MOTU 828 MK2
FOCUSRITE platinum pre amp
FOCUSRITE twintrak pro pre amp
APHEX aural exiter
ROLAND A 90
ROLAND fantom X6
ROLAND JV 880
YAMAHA SY77
YAMAHA DX7
KROG X5DR
KORG K25
vienna sound FOCUSRITE library
ALESES D4
ADAM ANF10 STUDIO monitor
TANNOY STUDIO monitor
MEUMANN U89 mic
AKG C 1000 mic
NUENDO SX3
CUBASE SX3
WAVES effect
MORE THAN 100 GIGA!! of high quality sound effects
5.1 SURROUND MIX
:)

Antec Sonata Designer 500 Case
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor
4 gig ram
80 gig & 250 gig hard drives

XP
Sonar 7
Behringer TRUTH B2030A Active Monitors
PreSonus Firestudio Project

Apple Macbook Pro 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Gb 667Mhz Ram, 15.4", 120 Gb Disk

External HDD 240 Gb, FW400 & USB2

MOTU Ultralite

KRK RP5

M-Audio 49E Keyboard MIDI Controller
M-Audio Trigger Finger MIDI Controller

Reason 4 w/ Refills
Logic Pro 8
Digital Performer 5

Hi,
Here is My rocket :)

PC:

Tyan S2912
2xDual-Core AMD Opteron 2218
Zelman Cpu Fan
2GB Corsair
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Supermicro Chassis
WD Raptore 10,000 rpm for system (WinXp Prof SP3)
1TB Raid0 2 x 500 Gb Seagate 7,200 rpm for recording
1.5 TB Raid0 3x 500 Gb Seagate 7,200 rpm for Library
2x 23'' ViewSonic LCD
Lynx AES 16
Aurora 8
Cubase 4.5.2 / WaveLab /SoundForge
3 x UAD-1 full Plugins
Waves mercury
.
.
.
Protools HD 7.4 (waiting the 8 :) )
I/O 192

Console:
Yamaha O2R V2

Mics:

Neumann M 149 Tube
Neumann U 87 Ai x 2
Neumann TLM 103
Neumann KM 184 pair
AKG D112
Sennheiser MD 421 II
Shure SM57 X 4

Pre-amps:

Avalon VT-737 sp
Focusrite ISA 428

Monitors:

Adam S2
Yamaha NS 10

Cheers

My DAW

This is what I use and I am exteremly happy with it as I have zero latency issuse with recording.

-G5 Mac 4.5 gigs of RAM
-Glyph internal and exterernal hard drives (extra internal hard drives is the secret to no latency)
-Acer screens 2x
-Rolls head phone amp with seperate inputs for each channel
-Yamaha DM1000 didgital mixer
-ADAT cards
-DP 5
-2408 motu interface
-UAD 1 with almost all of there plug-ins
-TC electronics power core card
-Dynaudio BM6 mkII
-Pro co cables and sanks
-all types of mics and DI boxs
-Melodyne
-Amplitube 2
-other plug-ins
-Aurolex sonic prints and other panels

Hi,

I'm new here. I just switched from using a standalone DAW (Korg D3200) to a computer based system. I'm constantly evolving my home studio, but this is what I currently use.

Computer

Dell XPS 420 (Core Duo 3Ghz, 4GB RAM, 1 - 500GB 7200RPM HD, 1 - 1TB 7200RPM HD)
24" and 19" LCD monitors
Vista (64 bit)

Audio Interface and Electronics

2 - Echo Audio AudioFire12 (Total of 24 in, 24 out)
1 - Presonus Central Station
1 - Presonus HP60 headphone amp
1 - Presonus TubePre
1 - Yamaha MG24FX Analog console (feeds AudioFire12s via TRS)
1 - Frontier Design Tranzport wireless DAW controller
1 - Rane C4 Compressor/Limiter
2 - Behringer DEQ2496 Mastering Processors

Mics

1 - Shure Beta 52a
2 - Shure Beta 58a
2 - Shure SM58
6 - Shure SM57
2 - AKG Perception 200 (LDC)
2 - Audix F15 (SDC)

Monitors

Fostex PM0.4 Near-field Monitors
Fostex PM0.5 Sub-woofer

Headphones

1 - AKG K701
4 - AKG M80

Software

Tracktion 3 Project Bundle

I'm a freshman in college right now and since I only have a small budget and small amount of equipment, noob...

13" Macbook white
250GB internal HD (upgrade through Apple)
two 2GB Transcend JM667QSU-2G RAM
500GB Ext. HD
M-Audio Oxygen 49
Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones
M-Box 2 Factory bundle
upgraded to ProTools LE 8 and Reason 4.0
(and all the other falsely advertised DEMO plug-ins that come with the M-Box)
the MXL 990/991 Recording Kit

future purchases considering...
- Melodyne or Autotune, which would you recommend?
- one or two SM57's or 57/58
- XLN Audio Addictive Drums
- KRK Rokit powered 6 monitors or Yamaha HS50M 5" powered monitors

All this crammed into my small dorm room! plus my guitars haha

*feel free to leave any constructive suggestions!

Terrible PC
Tascam FW1884
Nuendo
Waves Diamond
GT brick
Mackie HR824's and rokit 5's
assorted shure and Sennheiser mics
Acoustic treatment

On the way:
Mac pro!!!! (ordered)
Potentially a protools HD2 with a C24
Avalon VT737
Hopefully some really nice vocal condensor.

PC:

asus ip35 pro motherboard
intel 2.66 dual core (OC'd to 3.0)
2gb ram @ 1066 mhz
gerforce 8600gts
2 19" samsung widescreen monitors
160 gb OS HD 3 g/bs
300 gb audio file HD 3 g/bs
2 rp5 krk rokit
akg k240s head phones
akg perception 200 condenser mic
emu 1616 pci and daughter card

software
cubase 5
proteus x
T-racks
emulator x
ableton live 4
wavelab 5
lots more free effects

My DAW - Quad Core "OverClockintosh"

Ok, here is the configuration of my home build "Overclockintosh" Yes, I coined the phrase. Please feel free to use it.

4U Rackmount Case (all fans disabled)

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz OC'd to 3.4GHz - ROCK SOLID!!!
8GB RAM - OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) x2
750W Power Supply - CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE GV-NX86S256H GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB - FANLESS
Dual 22" LCD Widescreen Monitors
Internal Seagate 500GB (32MB Cache) MAC OS X
Internal Seagate 750GB (32MB Cache) Audio Files
External WD 1TB (32MB Cache) for Backup

This unit is Fast Cool and QUIET!! Love it.

Running ProTools LE (Digi 003 Rack) and Logic 8 Pro
Waves Diamond Bundle 6.0

Intel Duel Core 3ghz
Intel Mother Board
4gb Ram
Two Nividia 6200 256mb Fanless Graphics card for duel monitors
Two 17" Hanns G Wide screen monitors
16gb Internal Solid State OS Drive
Two 80gb WD Internal storage drives
750gb WD Internal Record drive
500gb WD External Back up dive
Zalman 850 watt power supply
Thermalright HR-01 Fanless CPU Heatsink
Three Noctua 120mm Silent Computer Fans
Custom built Quiet pc enclosure
M-Audio Delta 10-10
Two UAD-1e cards
Lightscribe dvd burner
Dynex Pro Audio cd Burner

This thing is Silent!