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your DAW to a console like that: http://www.studer.ch/index.aspx?locale=en&menu_id=3&sub_menu_id=11&url=includes%2fproduct_sheet_include.aspx%3fproduct_id%3d14 and then to a tape machine of this sort: http://users.chariot.net.au/~debpeter/Studer_ReVox.html a much warmer antique sound you can not get...

Software RAID is old technology.

The new motherboards like ASUS have
Hardware RAID, called "onboard", this you activate in the BIOS
and makes the HHD's ca. double as fast in transfer.

I think you do not need a RAID for your setup.
Use the onboard LAN for transfer from computer to computer.

hit
cntrl+alt+delete

and see whats running in the background.
Norton Antivirus is a CPU killer for example.

or open

Systeminformation>Software>Active Tasks

here you see the full list what software is running.

use the digital in of your motherboard

if your carpet charges static electricity, then it get dangerous for what ever is magnetical. Static electricity can also easily damage your mainboard etc.

apart from the ones you mentioned initially

i use T-RackS, and may not exactly warmers Amplitube, Greenmachine, Guitar Rig

Curve EQ is excellent !

I tried them all and the voxengo's are worldclass.
Probably the best PlugIns at the moment.

The GUI's are also my taste.

it might add too much room if the recording is already roomy but reamping it might do the trick. mono out to a stereo or stereo pa and then stereo mic it. if nothing else, it might give you a more natural stereo reverb to mix underneath the original mono track. the waves eq plugs have a preset call...

1. Put the single channel centered thru a 1st stereo reverb and make a recording with 100% wet. 2. Make 3 copies of the single channel. 2. Leave one centered. Pan one single channel full left and the other full right. 3. Pitchshift the right single channels 0.1 cent up and the left 0.2 down or vice ...