Well I'm at a point in my life where I'm seriously considering a career change. I studied at SAE Miami for two years and graduated at the top of my class (school for that matter), worked on a few demos and have really been building my recording chops for some time now.

Hi

I don't post outside Tech Talk often BUT I thought it time to venture out once more and especially since the reshuffle and forum renaming.

Many of you may know of this site.
http://www.ucapps.de/
Is anyone here an active member there ?

I have a session with Young BloodZ tomorrow (http://www.youngbloodzatl.com/) but have never recorded rap, let alone big name, national acts!

I'm finally looking to upgrade to a Pro Tools system, but am somewhat wary of building my own computer. I've decided to go the laptop route for interaction with a digi 002, but I've had bad experiences with systems from companies recommended on digi's site, such as dell, hp and compaq.

I'm about to pop for a new laptop and USB interface, and want to be able to play Reason synths live with MIDI. A 2.8GHz Pentium 4 is plenty fast but runs hot and has a short battery life (1.5 hrs or so). A 1.7 GHz Pentium M is about as fast for business apps, runs cooler and claims 3-5hr battery.

I'm really intent on buying the ESI JULI@ soundcard. Evrything I've seen or heard about it makes it the best option for an amazingly cheap price.

any comments?

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Im a big fan of the Stripes and i happy to see that Jack is all about analog recording and not ditigial. I want to know how they recorded most all there albums. Cause I'm recording analog with an 8 track mixer to a Stellavox reel-to-reel and i want there sound. Does anyone know how they did it?

Crew,

What's the best book on digital recording...from the perspective of PC based DAW's?

I'm looking for something that will cover all technical aspects, with info on what happens through the entire chain (from the audio interface to floating point DAW's to audio engines to editing & post-processing, etc., etc.)

Hi...this is my first post, and I just wanted to start out by saying that this site is a fantastic resource. However, I searched the old threads, and still couldn't quite get an answer to my question. So here goes:

I am running the Mbox on a Toshiba Satellite-
I need to get and external Hard drive. I went to Pro Tools site for compatible drives and got thoroughly confused and lost in all the pages of text..
Any suggestions for this laptop setup?

thanks