Hey Chris,

The recent Dolby tone question brought up something. How many here can and have fully aligned a 24 or 16 track machine before their sessions, Dolby 361, SR, dbx ? Yea I know it’s not that big a deal for old guys like me. :(

I'm looking for the easiest ways to make 1 or 2-track field recordings, from outdoor sounds to a quick set-up for the occassional jam. I've been looking at the Tascam 564 (perfect, except for the early version of ATRAC compression and no phantom power, and I don't necessarily need all 4 ins, or the editing abilities), and that got me thinking about using one of the little player/recorders.

I have been attentively reading the posts on building a recording computer. Very impressive! To complete my plan to build a new one I need to ask a few questions that I havn't seen answers to...

Can someone just give me a brand and model for a quiet ATA harddrive and power supply?

can anyone tell me what kind of plugin -count (Wavesgold) to expect whith a new G4-933 compared to my G4-500?
or should i go for the G4-1Ghz dual?

I have been looking for a decent set of overheads. I almost narrowed my search down to getting some AT4033's off of eBay for just over $400. But I kept looking back at AT's site seeing the AT3035. They seem to look better (on paper at least) than the AT4033 and you can pick them up for about 100 clams less.

Well - how was it for you?
:)

I currently have a soundblaster live in my windows XP system. However, i'm
looking to get into computer sampling/recording and want to get a GSIF
compatible card.

The two i'm looking at are the Terratec EWX 24/96 and Midiman Audiophile
2496 as both are around £160-180 and seem to have the hardware support i'm
looking for.

HAH! Thought I'd have it done did ya? HA HA HA .

Good things come to those who wait. :D

I am an 02R owner and am considering going to a 24 bit HD recorder using ADAT light pipe. However, the Yamaha ADAT card uses a proprietary Alesis optical chip that will only pass a 20 bit word length. Other than the expensive TC Electronic 02R Unit Y card (for which you're mostly paying for the plugin processors), are there any reliable 3rd party 24 bit ADAT cards out there?