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by timmymacdd
Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:15 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: choosing a notebook for mobile recording...
Replies: 16
Views: 4953

Computers are pretty fast nowadays.....If you are going with a pc laptop make sure that you are using cubase since it runs perfect on a pc. Since you are on a laptop though you will have to record to an external firewire drive in order to keep your programs running well on the internal and recording...
by timmymacdd
Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:44 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: budget desktop pc??
Replies: 29
Views: 6986

HAHAHA that was funny and true. Drinking and fixing computers is great. re-installing the OP a must if nothing else at least to get rid of all of the trial software they put on it. .....and make sure you burn the copy of the recovery dvd while the DVD player still works so you don't have to wait 10 ...
by timmymacdd
Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:39 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Basement studio: buy dynamics?
Replies: 33
Views: 8858

SO it is not too far fetched to believe that in 5 years most bands will be recording their tracks in basements...and that WILL be the sound. WHo knows? 5 years? How about now! Most of my favorite bands come from myspace basements....and record in their basement or some other crappy venue. F$$K reco...
by timmymacdd
Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:21 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Basement studio: buy dynamics?
Replies: 33
Views: 8858

Cheap condenser mics are better than any dynamic microphone. I would personally rather use 100 dollar compresor mics than 100 dollar dynamic mics....they pick up way way way better and more sound..... ALTHOUGH the whole entire trick is using what you have to sound as great as it can in your mic choi...
by timmymacdd
Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:15 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: budget desktop pc??
Replies: 29
Views: 6986

I run vista-And it is so Beautiful and never ever crashes....and I run a crap load of plugs..... I think the secret may be in the fact that I upgraded the video chip on my motherboard so that i can have all of those cool little video windows open and it is not sucking up my ram or CPU. Also I learne...
by timmymacdd
Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:22 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: budget desktop pc??
Replies: 29
Views: 6986

yeah, i've got friends who have built their own and i understand the cost savings inherent in doing so, but i have neither the time nor the savvy to do that. i mean, i'm sure i could, it's the time factor involved with research and educating myself that steers me away from that route. so, an over-t...
by timmymacdd
Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:19 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: budget desktop pc??
Replies: 29
Views: 6986

WELL.....HP is great....dell is great...they are really all the same. You will hear gripes and grumbles on all of them. I did research and if you have a computer.....you can have a QUAD CORE-8 gigs RAM- and a motherboard to connect it all together for 520 bucks with a CPU fan............HEHE...........
by timmymacdd
Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:55 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Natural-souding drum samples
Replies: 29
Views: 10194

It is all sequencing...or drawing in.... Velocity makes giant difference......and is a great place to start. snare rolls are giant as well. learning how to drum if you don't already know is probably important too since you are doing drum parts. ALSO it makes this a lot easier if your song was done i...
by timmymacdd
Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:29 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: budget desktop pc??
Replies: 29
Views: 6986

mY ADVICE

iF YOU WANT TO SAVE 100 dollars is to find which store has the best 500 dollar model on sale...... USUALLY- a 800 dollar computer will be on sale for 550 at one of the superstores. You want to concentrate on OEM stuff.....fast pc chip at quad speed now and now less than duo core. AMD chips save crap...
by timmymacdd
Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:19 am
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: What is a good upright piano for recording?
Replies: 25
Views: 7099

They had that piano for $800 a few days ago, maybe if I wait till next week it will be down to $500, lol. The 2 things I'm worried about are what it's gonna cost to fix the pedals, and how much it would cost to get moved, I'm between 45-60mins away from that town. I guess I can call piano movers an...
by timmymacdd
Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:52 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Portastudio vs. "Real" Analog Rigs
Replies: 59
Views: 25662

I'd like to post some of my recordings, but don't have a *good* way of getting them onto my computer. I have Reaper and an M-Audio Fast Track digital interface. However, any time I try to feed signal into my computer, it sounds horrible; it either sounds really dull (low signal) or gets a lot of di...
by timmymacdd
Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:23 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: The Detroit film Industry?!?
Replies: 32
Views: 13210

I don't trust any info from mich.gov Ganholm is an idiot and would have that put on the site just to make people think she is doing something good for the people of michigan. Kind of like obamma saying he's going to create 3 million new jobs......he is just spending more money.....on union labor. so...
by timmymacdd
Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:37 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Portastudio vs. "Real" Analog Rigs
Replies: 59
Views: 25662

I liked to use my computer 14 years ago as a 3 track better than my four track portastudio at the time. In 1994 my computer would barely make a 3 track recording without freezing up all of the time.....I think I had a 15 dollar soundcard too.....and I could do more with those three tracks than I cou...
by timmymacdd
Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:13 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Portastudio vs. "Real" Analog Rigs
Replies: 59
Views: 25662

DAWS are 100000000000000000 times better.
by timmymacdd
Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:38 pm
Forum: Creative Recording
Topic: Focusrite Saffire Pro 40?
Replies: 2
Views: 1596

OK checked it out......

If that thing is only 500 It is a great deal.....I like the two seperate headphone out jacks....and it has every input and output imaginable for 500 bucks..........

PLus it looks more impressive than the focusite two channel imput thing that my friend has....hehe