Re: lap Top Recommendations

"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Well, sure, but what I meant was with all of that outboard stuff, why
> limit yourself to a laptop? Why not package a "normal" motherboard and
> disk drive in a case just a little bigger. Then you'd be able to
> eliminate the external disk drive and Firewire adapter. Sure, you'd
> have to carry a monitor and keyboard, but you're getting into a
> suitcase-sized recorder anyway.
>
But it'd still be a small suitcase...external drive, soundcard...no need to
take em off and on, keep em hooked up in the case...and both are the size of
a small book anyway, and the whole rig would weight maybe 5-6 kg.
But you do have a point. U gotta limit it somewhere :-)

> so on. The more you can integrate, the more reliable a portable system
> you have. I can carry my Mackie HDR24/96 easier than you can carry all
> of that stuff, and plug its external disk driver right into my desktop
> computer if I want to go that route, or edit and mix directly on the
> HDR back in the studio.. For recording, I don't need the keyboard,
> mouse and monitor.
>
Sure...reliability would not be a problem for me really...I seldom use a
computer system for longer than a year anyway, so they don't have time to
wear out...and in that time I'd be carrying the system somewhere maybe half
a dozen times, max.

> production environment like you're describing, I'd still rather have a
> nice quiet, out-of-the-way and basically less expensive desktop
> computer that's more upgradeable. Your choice, though.
>
Yeah, well, I do, though it ain't too quiet...more like a jet plane taking
off with all the gear in it :-)

> were rendering your home projects. And if you're doing work that you
> have to deliver to clients, how sure are you that those DVDs aren't
> screwed up by some glitch in your editing, or a crash? But it's your
> choice, though. If you want to play games with your projects, do so.
> But if you want to do serious work, you really should consider
> dedicated tools.
>
Well, there you go - I'm not doing it pro. Currently I'm doing a blues
project, last winter I did a 'heavy' album.
Badly mastered too bright examples at http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/deeaa
if interested.

I did those on my PC at home, I had a cheap Behringer board and a SM58 and a
C1000 and a compressor...for guitars/bass I recorded direct line and so on,
whenever I found the time to play something, you know. Cheap as can be. So
it'd be used for something similar, except this time around I've much much
better gear (a decent mic and a DBX pre/converter, sold away all the other
gear).

> IMing your pals, perhaps while watchin a DVD. But it doesn't count on
> things like streaming 24 tracks of high resolution audio - it wants to
> see if you've got mail or have put in a disk to play. If you think
> there aren't IRQ-related problems with audio interfaces, you have
> either been very lucky or you'll be learning a thing or two at some
> time. Maybe you like that.
>
Well, I do know there are probems. I have an Echo Layla card. Pretty much
can't do anything else when working in Cubase at full power.

> on your laptop PC. Experienced Firewirers find that an audio interface
> and external disk drive don't play well together on the same Firewire
> bus. You may be able to get away with USB for one or the other,
> however.
>
Yup, I've heard similar things meself...currently I use an USB drive, and
that's not that fast...50mb/s or so.

> A "normal" PC? OK, you're outa my league and that of most audio
> engineers. Best of luck. Come back in about six months and let us know
> how it's going.
>
It did work fine for about a year, then I upgraded it a little...still works
but I changed pretty much all the drives etc. and reinstalled everything.


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