I am new here and read a post that indicated that it may be worth waiting 6 months or so to upgrade my audio PC. Could someone lead me to the thread that discusses what is coming up in the near future that is going to make such a big difference in audio PCs? Or if it has not been spelled out, could someone explain what is on the horizon?

I am looking for something to record bass directly into my daw and also use live, preferrabley tube. I don't need a lot of bells and whistles, mostly just a preamp and compression type piece. I've already tried the Pod Pro for bass and didn't like it. I want something simple but of high quality. My budget is $1000. I've been considering several options which include:

Plugins are in their infancy. The pluginswe use today will on day be looked back on fondly as curios. The people who are developing them, currently, will eventually be seen as the pioneers of an entirely new method of processing audio.

Don't care about any A/D section (got a HEDD 192 for that). I'm looking for a 2 chan. high sample rate (88.2, 96k) PCI card (preferably AES in) as an alternative to a MOTU 1296 ($1500 will get you what I am describing plus 12 chans. of some pretty good A to D, but I'm looking for less expensive options). I use a MOTU 2408 & 308 for multi-channel inputs to my Mac.

hello, I have written music for awhile in the pop/rock format and would like to finally record them all and be done with them so to speak. I was hoping there was some way to record all the guitar and bass tracks to all the songs ( around 100 songs ) through direct input and then allow my voice to get stronger over the next year or so before doing the vocals.

Hi,
I'm here to get advices, as usual ;-)
I'm shopping for A/D converters for teh studio MAC/MOTU rig.
I got a 2408mkII with a G4/400, and we run DP 3.0.
So far the sound I got out of this setup doesn't please me so much.
The more the tracks, the worst the sound.

hey all-

I've been a Cool Edit Pro user for quite a while and finally I am fed up with the mix interface (i.e. no mixer), plus there's really no real-time processing - you basically have to bounce any audio through whatever fx...but I still love the general processing power of CEP :cool: .

Hey all,

way back in high school my brother used to get Stereo Review, which was my little window/intro into the world of hifi (that and his Nikko amp and smaller Advent loudspeakers)...but i am WAY out of touch with the state of home audio gear these days (still using the old mid-70's Nikko, fer chrissakes).

I need some suggestions for a pair of high-quality, accurate, close-field monitors for sound-design work. By "accurate," I simply mean as faithful a reproduction of the signal as I can reasonably get. Whether that means a perfect impulse response and a phase-aligned system or whatever other design spec, I don't really know.