I have a question for all of you DAW guys/gals out there. I started recording with a Korg D1600 and was doing everything on that until a friend hooked me up with Cubase. Once I got Cubase, I would record onto the Korg, transfer the tracks to CD and load those tracks into Cubase where I would mix them.

Hi! in a previous topic (see "upgrading PC to serial ATA standard") Big_D suggested me to consider building a P4 pc on my own - instead of going to buy an assembled one in a pc store. I would upgrade my recording station from P3 1Ghz ATA to a P4 3 Ghz serial ATA.

Is anyone using outboard gear before they go to CD. I am waiting on a FATSO and AD2055 to insert in between the Rosetta 800's ins and outs to come back into waelab and then limit and dither with the Waves U3.

My motherboard died this week with a series of blown and leaking caps so it’s time to replace it. As I was never that impressed with the performance of the processor (P4 2400MHz) I'm thinking about going for a more radical upgrade to try and increase my CPU performance as I use a lot of VSTs and was regularly maxing out CPU.

Hello,

I've been recording for several years and am now attempting to build my first DAW. I've got a question regarding how to configure the hard drives.

The motherboard is the ASUS P4c800 E Deluxe

I'll be installing Gigstudio 3 along with Cubase SX3 and various other samples, so I'll need to be able to do DFD.

As my nominal financial windfall (LOL) approaches I still consider my options. You guys have done a wonderful job talking me out of a Roland 24 track digital all-in-one. Unfortunately, still undecided in my PC vs Mac saga.

Okay folks, here's the situation.

I am new to computer recording. Have a long history of Roland and Tascam all-in-ones. I am completely overwhelmed, but ready to take the plunge into the computer DAW realm...please be gentle.

What advantage do you get from increasing or decreasing the buffers for a DAW's audio engine? I know too much will hog your resources and too little will cause hickups and other unwanted artifacts. Is this an issue with some or all DAW programs? I'm just curious about how some of you handle this delima as well as what's your secret remedy for this?

Should I mix down from my DAW to my 1" 30 ips? Maybe L on 1-4 tracks and R on 5-8?

Crowd,

Sorry if this post overlaps others which are similar (some even recently by me), but I need some feedback from the mastering brains on the purchase of a hardware limiter (or compressor/limiter) for my studio.

For me, it's now down to a choice between a plugin /dsp suite (probably UAD-1 Studio) or one of the following hardware pieces: