UstadKhanAli

Originally posted by Dylan Walters Yes, I'm very lucky to have married such a great women who doesn't mind living simply. So just to clarify, you're a polygamist?

Originally posted by The Chinese I have left over Chicken Enchiladas and pork tamales from my annual tequila and tamale party on Sat.... he he.. What does "IIRC" mean? Send 'em over!!!! Slurrrrrrp! IIRC is a secret code among recording engineers. It's in the handbook after the section on secret handshakes, IIRC (If I Remember Correctly). Ooooops....

Originally posted by coyote-1 Ain't it interesting that luxuries are ultimately NOT tied to quality of life? If the luxury is really important to you, then it can be tied to quality of life. I have a bad back, and have a Panasonic massage lounger. For most, that would be frivolous, but for me, it really helps me. So, in other words, it's all relative. But yes, in general, hording crap does not contribute to a high quality of life. Use what you need, try and get rid of the rest.

Our house is under a 1000 square ft., which is small when you consider that one of the bedrooms is my studio. We'll clean the garage one of these weekends and get rid of my crud. I've been selling a lot of my old equipment on eBay, getting rid of my old drum machine, rack effects, and other stuff that I simply don't use anymore. And clothes....I don't know where all these clothes come from, but I keep getting rid of more and more. Get rid of whatever you don't need. Give it to someone who needs it, or sell it for money, whatever....get it out of the house if you don't need it. That'd be my advice. And you know already to try and make your time for the truly important things.

For the last 8-9 years, every place that I've lived has been progressively smaller than the last. I've moved three times in that period. I have to downsize every single time. While I would love to have a larger place, I do like this side benefit of being able to determine what is important and what is not and get rid of stuff. Furniture, books, clothes, etc. - I have big yard sales or give it away every time I move. Because my hobby is music - both recording and playing - and this sort of equipment takes up a lot of space, I have a lot of stuff. Aside from music-related stuff, I really don't own very much. Well, okay, my books are a bit out of hand... I am always envious of people who don't have that much stuff. I think it's a more elegant way to live.

"Don't go there."

I think if it were $20,000, I would have a soundproof room addition added on to the back of the house. The stuff I own is already good. It can always be better, but at least it's already good. But a room...now that would be awesome.

I could put a down payment on a Pulteq.

ADAM S3As, a G5 with Pro Tools LE, and more RealTraps. Then I'd sell my other monitors and get a larger monitor.

Gown too long? Sounds like you need a second engineer to help you carry the back of the gown. Look, if this is really the case, the amp/mic hang-out's gonna be quite interesting!

Phil, what's your signal chain for the vocals? And what else did you do to process the vox (EQ, compression, or other processing)? Just curious!

I'm listening to this through tiny little computer speakers, and it *still* sounds full and beautiful. Vocals sound awesome. Actually, as far as I can tell, everything does.

"When the sun goes down, you're headed into town for a Red Bull kinda night" And I was there live for one of the performances, and don't remember the Gear List scrolling over you... Fun!

So were you able to clean the carpet? How'd you do it? I have a "reg'lar" lookin' lava lamp. Blue. I mean, of course it's blue. It's in Blueberry Buddha Studios, after all... I have a cheap-ass one that's attached to a $5 desklamp that I got from Walgreen's. Couldn't pass up a $5 desklamp with a lava lamp (I needed the desklamp. No, really). All studios must have a lava lamp. It's the law. Friends don't let friends run lava lampless studios.

Ooooh, that sucks. And I have no idea...

Now those are quite a lot of harrowing stories!!! So that picture on the right was your house before? That looks like a nice house! We got a house in the Valley, not my favorite place, but far from the worst...and for now are quite happy here. Got a big back yard, a small house, and a safe neighborhood with lots of great restaurants. See, it's the restaurant thing that's important....

Originally posted by blue2blue And I can tell you that my 828 is heavier than rack boxes twice its size because of its excessively heavy case. But it'll stop a .25 calibre slug, I'll bet. Maybe a .32. Is this an important consideration in the LBC?

Originally posted by Shangrila17 You say there are flaws in my Perfectmpc idea. Actually, I didn't. I said you were a troll or dense. 'Sokay, though. Or maybe you work for one of those music computer making companys and your scared of little competition. Yup, maybe that's it. You may not know anything about computers or business or be able to spell your way out of a paper bag or comprehend any solid advice that anyone's given you, but no matter - I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. I'm not a buisness man. I know. But it's okay, Walters, it's okay...

Originally posted by Lee Knight You just made my morning Ken. I don't think I've seen you get pissed like that and I enjoyed it very much. Sure. But I'm not pissed at all. My feeling is that if you're gonna be a troll, at least be entertaining!!

I believe this is a decent definition of SATA, which is made by Seagate and others: SATA HDs As for the other question, I'm gonna cut and paste Phil's PC system, which is a superduper fast system: ~~~~~~~Phil O'Keefe's PC:~~~~~~~~ Athlon 64 4200 X2, overclocked to 2.5 GHz. 35 degrees at idle, under 45 at full load. Screamin' fast! Coolermaster Hyper 48 heatpipe / CPU fan, set at 1,300 RPM's fixed speed, and mounted on Arctic Silver 5 thermal grease. ASUS A8N-SLi Premium mobo. It's fanless, and uses a heatpipe for chipset cooling. I'm currently running BIOS 1009. Enermax Noisetaker 495AX (485W) power supply. Sapphire ATI Radeon X550 128 MB PCI-E dual-head video card. 2 GB (4 X 512MB) Patriot DC PC3200 (2-3-2-5) RAM. Promise TX133 PCI IDE interface (for extra HDD's) Belkin TI chipset firewire card (for even more HDD's. ) Pioneer DVR-109 16X DVD burner. Lite-On SOHC-5236K 52X CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo drive. Thermaltake Tsunami Dream ( ) case. Other than the poorly chosen name, it's a nice case, although the shiny black paint, brushed aluminum front door and clear side panel take a bit more work to keep clean. But internally it has a lot of room, and is very easy to work on - it's a tool-less design. I like the drive cages and the fact that the drive mounts are shockmounted. I have two case fans - an 80mm and a 120mm, both on varispeed controls and set for fairly low RPM's -1200 or so IIRC. Various (2 Maxtor / 1 WD / 1 Seagate) 7,200 RPM 8 MB cache P-ATA internal HDD's (over half a terrabyte total internal storage ) connected with round Coolermaster IDE cables. Several external firewire drives. Digi 002 / PT LE 7.0 Steinberg USB MI-4 as a secondary audio interface (iTunes playback, Sound Forge, etc.) MOTU MicroExpress parallel port 4X6 MIDI interface. This may be replaced soon. It works, but half the time you have to manually reset it right after booting the computer. A minor gripe, but it's annoying. Yamaha 01X / i88X as yet another audio interface. Mostly used with Sonar & Cubase and for hardware MIDI instrument / synth / efx returns - IOW, as a submixer to my 01V96. Frontier Design Tranzport. How did we ever manage without them? Three 17" video monitors Two CRT, one LCD. Two monitors (one CRT and the LCD) show the same thing (the main screen image) but are located in different spots in the CR. I have the LCD right in front of the sweet spot, and the dual CRT's are over at the computer desk. I use the dual head card and an active video splitter to feed the monitors. I run at 1024 X 768, 32 bit on the displays. Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 2. I use the mobo's onboard TI chipset firewire interface for my Digi 002, and the second (PCI card) one for mLAN and external firewire drives. I don't record directly to the externals - they're just for backups. I disable everything in BIOS that I don't need or use. The S-ATA's, the onboard MIDI and audio, one of the LAN ports, etc. I do use one LAN port to interface with my Gigastudio / mixdown computer - an Athlon XP 2700 - which was my main DAW machine two generations back. I have just spent way too much time trying to track down and fix some problems. Bottom line: If you have a Athlon X2 CPU on this mobo, do not use the AMD CPU driver. The standard Microsoft driver that is installed with Win XP works fine. Additionally, if you use an ATI video card on a nForce4 mobo, and use Pro Tools, do NOT install the ATI Catalyst software - just the basic video drivers. Failure to follow these suggestions can result in video / audio / MIDI conflicts in Pro Tools. And loss of hair that some of us just can't afford to lose. Other than that, it's a great system. Seriously, It runs cool and it's fairly quiet. And it's very fast. And fast is good IMO. But reliability is even more important. Other than the software conflicts I mentioned above, the system has been stable, fast and reliable so far.

Originally posted by nursers That picture fits for me if Phil is in a ball gown Nice. He's got the long white gloves on, too? Really an elegant picture we're painting for a class act like Phil.

I'm a huge fan of sneakernet. Get one of those little USB flash cards that looks like something you might hang on your keychain, and transfer stuff between two computers. It enables me to keep my studio computer off the internet completely.

Originally posted by Picker Ok... I'm busted... I have no empirical evidence of this. Just a suspician that overall intel might be a bit more stable. A personal superstition perhaps. Bravo for having the spine to say this instead of digging your heels in. That's cool.

It's pretty clear that you're either a troll or dense. In either case, there's not a whole lot that anyone can do about that besides ignore you. You've gotten far better advice than you deserve, and if you choose to ignore it and continue prattling on, have at it. At least Walters was amusing.

Originally posted by GZsound Originally posted by UstadKhanAli Why don't you find someone to do this stuff for you and then buy the components at New Egg? That's what I suggested. And that's where we got all the pieces for my computer. I just had a guy the builds inexpensive computers build me an inexensive computer..using stuff I specified from New egg. Yes, when I posted that it didn't feel like a totally original idea! It is a fine idea. So what are you gonna do, ShangriLa?