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Offline petter

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PC for recording
« on: August 12, 2008, 06:27:23 PM »
Hi, I am tryin to set up a home recording studio and was wondering if anyone could give me some ideas of what i should get in the way of a PC. I imagine that the best (and cheapest lol) thing to do would be to custom build one, so if anyone has any ideas or info they can give me it would be greatly apreciated.

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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2008, 05:18:36 AM »
Recording what? Music? Video? HD Video? How many channels are you going to be inputting?
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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2008, 02:34:25 PM »
lol sorry, im recording music, and im pickin up an 8 channel pre amp as soon as i have enough $....so probably in a few weeks, cause im doin some work on one of my guitars and i would like to get that done first cause iv put it off to long now

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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2008, 05:25:53 AM »
So will you be recording 8 seperate audio sources at once?
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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2008, 10:45:10 AM »
will mostly be recording one at a time but when it somes to drums i will be recordin up to 8, depends on the kit

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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2008, 01:49:04 PM »
Okay, so i would suggest a Quad Core, ALOT of Ram, and a couple fast HDD's, i would write up a general parts list, but its fairly straight forward. For GPU Use a mid range one such as the ATi 4850, nothing too powerful.

Also, depends on your budget, and what software/hardware you will be using aswell, as it could be a good oppurtunity for a Mac Pro ;)
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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2008, 01:53:50 PM »
as it could be a good oppurtunity for a Mac Pro ;)
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Definitely a quad core, what matt said, a lot of ram. I'd go for a few 300GB Raptor HDDs or other 10k rpm drives too.

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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2008, 01:59:38 PM »
Yeah, definitely 10K Drives, you dont want all that RAM being filled by Stuff that needs to go on the Hdd.
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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2008, 07:39:13 AM »
thanks for the help  :tup:

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Re: PC for recording
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2008, 02:39:46 PM »
If you make a parts list, i will go over it if you want.
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