I know I've voiced my thoughts on this before but I'm going to do it again and I would love to hear what other people think and what your ideas of what the perfect DAW might be.

This is my Ideal DAW:

I'm currently attempting to record a grand piano, and have run in to a few little hick ups. To give you an idea of my set up... I have one Shure SM81 mic which is running through a lower end M Audio interface. I wish I could record it in stereo, but this is all I can afford at the moment.

Has anyone seen any good tutorials on mixing multitrack trance music songs? I'm needing help on how much to crank up EQ for which sounds, whether to use compression on this kick or that snare and how much.

I want to build up my re-amping chops so I'm looking at boxes and tips. What makes a better box than another and any tips you can share, please do.

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Help, please! :)

Preamps are very "subjective" as we all know. Though I think it would be really helpful if people could perhaps post their top 5 choices for roughly about 1200 dollars. This is weed out some of the lower end units and focus on mid range units which I am sure many of us could use in our studios. I am looking to buy one myself, and this would be my first. I really could use some help.

I am looking for feedback from anyone who has dealt with these or other Custom DAW PC builders. First off, I do NOT want to build my own. I am capable, but frankly it is worth it to me to spend a few hundred dollars to avoid the time, effort, and frustration involved.

Doing some searching, I'm finding very positive responses from people using Win 8 with Sonar and a few other DAW's. It looks like its going to be a really solid version, but, is it more for the mobile world, and to compete with Apple's ipad's etc, don't know, but its faster and more streamlined than Win 7 which means, we should be able to optimize it as slick as Windows 7 if not more.