thanx for the reply - i'm bringing my system into class for a clean install within a week.

just curious - why don'tcha like Norton for system maintenence. one of the better local studios here's been using it for five years.

namaste, valkyrie

Anyone have any experience w/ this box?

Thanks,
Mike

Hi

I have searched the forum, but it didn't seem I found too many infos on this tweak everybody is raving about. I've already tweaked my system to some extent until now (and it's running great so far) but if some further infos are available to squeeze any drop of performance out of it I'd glady get them.

BTW my "Anus" goes something like this:

Tech support for all the comps I've built for people, friends and family over the past few years is wearing me out. I've been doing it for many years as a hobby, and frankly, the thrill is gone. I never made a profit, let alone calculated tech support into the prices of these things, and "doing the right thing" for everyone is wearing me out. Some stuff is ridiculous too.

MOBO: ASUS P4PE/R/L/SATA
Brain: Pentium 4 2.4BGHz 512K 533MHz CPU Northwood P478
Display: MATROX G550 32MB DDR 4x AGP
Audio : WD "SPECIAL EDITION" 80GB 7200RPM 8mb cash
OS:WD "SPECIAL EDITION" 40GB 7200RPM 8mb cash
CDR: PLEXTOR PX-W4012TA/SW 40x12x40 CD-RW
I/O: either Aardvark Q10 or Something else under a grand. (sugjestions)

Any suggestions on a good amp/head combo for studio recording only? I'm looking mainly for something that can produce a good hi-gain heavy sound and a nice, warm rock tone in the same amp. What do you guys/gals use?

thanx for the replies, guys.

i'm running mac OS 9.1. there's 1024 RAM
(4 X 256's). Hard drive that it originally came with, plus an additional 60-gigger (has its own icon) and 80-gig external hard drive (lacie). don't think there's a CD-burner yet (relative neophyte here, eh). i'm moving over everything i know works that i want to keep to the external hard drive.

Just curious what kind of results people are getting from using newer DVD burners to burn Red Book CDs.

Where I'm coming from is: the system I'm putting together will definitely have a DVD burner for archiving purposes. Do I still need to add a low-jitter CD burner like PLEXTOR or Yamaha or will the newer DVD-RAM burners do this task just fine?

I'd like a reasonably good quality harmonization plugin for my Mac (VST). No MAS, TDM, external DSP anything. Just a dual gig G4.

Barring that, I'll take suggestions for hardware, preferably under $500.

Thanks in adv.

best-
.nick

What sort of hardware do you dream about in a DAW?

Software?

W.