I am a home studio guy and the CIO for my local county government. At work, our Board of Commissioners wants to upgrade their system for recording meetings for transcription at a later date.

I'm trying to partition a 80 gig Samsung HD (OEM) and need a very good s/w utility to assist with the partition. Is SMARTdrive the only utility offered to accomplish this? What other generic utility can I use?

Hello all,

this is my first post to this forum.

I am about to build a DAW for mastering purposes, and I want the machine to be as stable as possible. There will not be any other use for it - running Samplitude, burning CD's and twiddling around with 2-trk audio will be the only use for it.

This is a system I've been thinking of:

Are they any good?

I have a cheap drum to record that i got from an old friend and there is only one cymbal and it is written crash/ride 18/45. I want to get another one but I'm not sure if i should use the one i already have as a ride and buy a crash, or the other way around. Can someone help me figure this out and also maybe help me figure out how to choose once in the music store. Im really new to this.

I just got the Tascam FW-1884 last week. I hooked it up to my computer. I use Digital Performer (version 4.12) with it. Previously, I had a M-Audio Midiman 4x4 that did my MIDI. The computer is a digital audio G4 with 2x533Mhz proc's and 1.1 GB of RAM. It has MacOS X.3, but was upgraded from X.2. (X.2 was a fresh install however)

OK guys,

Has anyone worked with the Focusrite 428 with the digital option installed. Seems like an incredible deal. Thinking of using this as the front end for my new project studio. Waddaya think?

I am going to record a live show in a local Jazz Club next week. I have quite a bit of experience in recording Jazz in the studio but this will be the first time I record live to multitrack outside of a studio setting. What should I watch out for? Maybe some one could share some his/her experience in live recording.

I am considering picking one up from a local shop.

Its got two Tascam cards loaded into it.
Are there adapters to connect TDIF to ADAT?

What would be a good deal on this mixer and are there any issues that would steer me away from this mixer?

I am looking into eventually getting a hard disk recorder. as opposed to my computer for a portable recording rig.