I'm new to this home recording set. I have built a DAW using a AMD1.33 266 cpu,asus a7m266 motherboard,256MB ddr ram,win 2k,30GIG system hd,18gig scsi 80pin HD for apps,9gig 10k rpm and a 60gig ide ata100 7200rpm for audio tracks,10/100 nic,dual head ati video card and a Maudio omni studio with a delta 66. Should I stay with this or get a mac G4 350 thats available to me? :roll:

I don't know if you have covered this or not, but how important is the power supply to building a daw?
What is the difference between a pentium power supply and an AMD power supply?

When you guys track through outboard compression into a DAW, are you mostly adding a little here and there to avoid peaks, and then adding most of your compression with plugs during mixing, or are you trying to dial in most of the sound you want up front with the hardware, so to avoid needing lot's-O plug comps later on?

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Greeetings! In a nut shell, I'm putting together a DAW (who isn't?) and my question concerns signal flow and system config. I want to be able to track up to 16 tracks live and avail of myself the ability to foldback monitor sends to the studio (ideally 6, 4 min.). I realize I will probably need two A/Ds to get the 16 tracks (or maybe an Apogee A/D 16 and an D/A 16?).

Hello,

I'm just about ready to upgrade to a second, more current DAW. Any thoughts on dual processor vs a single 1.7 or higher CPU ? DDR Ram ? Any particular motherboards hot @ the moment?

I will be building a Nuendo system (which specifically mentions dual processor) and want to run VST insts. and plugs as smoothly as possible.

Hey Opus - First, I found out this BBS likes cookies better than I do, now I know...Here is the text of a message I sent recently to several manufacturers, after getting NOWHERE with Tascam on the subject -

Well...looky here... a new installment of building your own frankenstein...ooops...PC DAW!
keep getting my forums mixed up :p
So..now that we have the case..floppy..power supply..hard drives(whether IDE or SCSI) and Motherboard we now go on to the fun part! PCI cards and IRQ's! Oh joy oh joy! Yippee!
Now..we explain IRQ's!

Ok folks..the third installment of our ever so popular discussion! PC BUILDING! YAY! WOOHOO! HIP HIP HOORAY!...ok, I'll calm down now! lol
So, we talked about Mainboards, CPU's, Power Supplies, how to configure the drives and CDROM's and Floppy drives...now we talk ABOUT the Hard Drives and CDROM's

Ok..so now we know a little bit about Motherboards, processors and Chipsets..now we take it a little further!
Obviously we've encountered different processor socket types, different motherboards and motherboard specs. Now we look at the overall shape, design and specs on them.