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  1. Turning off all the unnecessary screen animations and BS in XP was always a good idea. When I first updated my old Pentium 3-500 mHz machine with XP back around the beginning of 2002, I upgraded the ram to 256 MB and wasn't too bummed with the performance hit... But then I decided to try to optimize it and discovered I could turn off the hideous Tonka Toy color scheme as well as all the insipid thinks like slow-roll-out menu animations. (What moron thought menus leisurely animating out was going to look or feel cool?) Damnedest thing -- with the silly gewgaws turned off, XP was, overall, faster feeling in performance. Programs loaded much faster. And while I'd had a very stable and well-optimized Win 98 machine, the stability of XP was wonderful. It seems to me that probably the single biggest problem at MS -- especially in recent years -- is that a lot of the turkeys making decisions would really rather be at Apple. What MS does well is develop code and development environments. What it does extraordinarily poorly, is try to be a Mac me-too platform. The horrendous missteps in Vista -- notable among them the CPU-draining rescaling graphics engine, Aero, an absurdly obvious nick on OS X's Aqua graphics engine -- are so bad not just because they're clumsy and designed by people who just don't get it -- but because, often as not, they are not only unnecessary (what has Aqua ever done for the world besides the stupid ' swoosh') but drag the GUI performance down. I have to use Macs at some clients' and I can tell you that even on new Core 2 Duo Macs, I'm always sitting around waiting for things to happen. Even though my own machines are far from rocket ships (my laptop is a 4+ year old Pentium M machine and my desktop an old Pentium 4 2.8HT) -- I'm damn glad to get back on them after using my clients' Macs. One of my clients recently popped for a new 20" iMac for around 2 grand. No doubt it's a sleek, elegant machine with a great looking display (gotta love that hyped Mac gamma!) By contrast, my P4 is a refurb from Dell, a few years old, and cost $403 including tax and shipping (no monitor -- I popped for a super high contrast, fast LG 19" LCD). Why does it feel so much faster? You make a lot of good points. I think a lot of the appeal with Apple products is that they are very sexy and stripped down. But Microsoft HAS to compete with that. Do you think that the majority of Windows users need an operating system that is streamlined for resource intensive tasks? No, probably not because they are all checking their e-mails, surfing the web, or chatting. And I think that's why Apple is better positioned due to the stripped down nature. And ironically, because things are much simpler, they seem to integrate better. I love Macs. I'm a total convert from Windows and I just find myself being able to get much more done on them a lot faster. I've installed countless apps and the machine is as snappy as it was the first day I got it. So much so that I was able to record 16 tracks simultaneously of a song in protools while recording video of it at the same time. I do still use Windows. I HAVE to use it at work and I do have a Bootcamp partition for gaming and other apps I had from before. I just find myself more productive using a Mac. However, I do think that Apple's pricing policy is ridiculous. When they first announce a revision of products, I think the price is justified because there have been comparisons of prices and Mac components beat out Windows vendors in price. But what I don't like is how they don't start discounting several months after the release. Their upgrades are what I'm talking about specifically. It's a terrible scheme.
  2. I'm SO happy that I switched to Mac OS. I was using Pro Tools LE on Windows for a LONG time but just got frustrated with it. I decided to see how Pro Tools runs on Vista so I set up Bootcamp to do it. Well, it turns out that it seems to run OK - nothing noticeable. But when Pro Tools crashes, which it does very often, you have to now reboot rather then just restart the program. It just reminded me of my past frustrations and for some reason I was infuriated. But what's so infuriating is that a reboot takes about 2 minutes vs around 20 secs on my MacPro(which doesn't require a restart anyway!).
  3. Hey Def Pearl Pilot, Love the big ass monitor. My next purchase. Also on your overheads, whats the deal with them pointing up? Are they directional vocal mics? The monitor is awesome. It's a 30 inch Dell that makes my life much easier. The overheads on the drums are Rode NT1s. I wanted to use SDCs but this is all I had available. The diaphragm is pointed towards the cymbals. I've gotten great results with them. I do want to try SDCs to see how much of a difference it makes.
  4. I've rearranged the room since this but this will give you an idea. And yes, I know that I need soundproofing. We have the two amps go into the ISO box and the bass player goes direct. If we are tracking drums, then obviously I don't sing. We also use this setup to practice as we can hear ourselves much better. And then for a live show, we use the PA that you can see in the corner.
  5. In a room, I've gotten poor results that way. The quality of what is captured is just not as good. It doesn't seem to capture all the frequencies/fullness as well. I was using "good" equiment too. U87 -> Great River NV2. The room was definitely the factor here. In a vocal booth, I've gotten bettter results. But I didn't have to turn up the preamp either.
  6. Not that I'm a pro but I can tell you what I know. I think your biggest problem is when you record at 10". I think that is REALLY far away to be from a mic. I'm sure that it would most likely sound pretty bad. I'm using a U87 and for the lower volume passages, I turn up the gain on the preamp. For the louder passages, I turn down the preamp and maybe cut back at most 2". I always want to have myself around 4" away or less from the mic. The other thing that I do is also record the verses and choruses in separate tracks. This way, it makes it much easier to mix due to the relative volume of the parts in each track. I then send the output of the tracks to an aux input where I apply compression and reverb, etc. You can also use a compressor to level out the performance. I do use compression but after I've recorded the parts. You can also try using a dynamic mic so it is not as sensitive to volume. You can also try to deaden your room a bit if you are getting to much reverb.
  7. Originally posted by STEEL KAGE The old lady who spilled coffe on herself never did, I dont care how hot the coffee was, its supposed to be friggin hot!!!! McDonalds shouldnt be held accountable for someone spilling hot coffee on themselves anymore than they should be to blame for people becoming fat because they eat Big Macs everyday.... its Stupid Someone I know said that they studied this case in college. I think, ultimately, it had to do with the fact that the lid on the coffee wasn't secure. The lady knew that the coffee was hot. Either way, it was a ridiculous settlement.
  8. Originally posted by Ultron Interesting fact....the old lady that had the 180 degree coffee spilled on her lap simply wanted McDonalds to pay the medical bills, which they outright refused, only then she contacted the attorney, who saw that as an opportunity to cash in and make them pay. Secondly, NO ONE'S reputation is worth $75million....$75 million? Come on man. EDIT: Even the veterans wife is trying to cash in...$10 million for "distress". What a twat... I have to agree with you on this one. I didn't know what this guy's reputation was before and I don't know after. I could see if this guy made $75 million and LOST it as a direct result of the movie due to lost contracts or something.
  9. Originally posted by Peter Diezel Hello Vid ! You are right, I don
  10. Originally posted by thegame Why are you so defensive? I said the Diezel's build quality is very good. My point is that there amps out there that are built even BETTER! Sound better?; thats subjective but I'm not talking about that. I'll modify my original commnents by adding another 'very' to the description, so IMO Diezel's are built very, very well (good). Happy? When I had a Diezel, I noticed the back of the chassis flexed when inserting a speaker cable with moderate force. Thats not military grade. Go to the Mako site and look up what military grade means (in relation to guitar amps). And yes I've looked inside one. That's interesting. I own two Diezel's and know several other owners and I've never seen the chassis flex.
  11. I have a Recto and Herbert and the Herbert slays the recto. Definitelyworth the money for me.
  12. Great story!!! But one thing I wanted to know was why did Gail say she was broken? Unless you went back and explained that somewhere??
  13. Honestly, I'm shocked that you've only been playing for three years!!
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