14 Jun
2005
14 Jun
'05
2:38 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:26:39AM +0700, ainion wrote:
Hello there. I would like to know which AMD mainboard
and which sound
card is recommended for a small home recording outfit? Basic recording
anything on the market from a reputable co should do. no probs here with gentoo on a
sn95g5+a64_3200+SATA+EchoAudio
projects will be vocals, guitar and keyboard. Although
RME Hammerfall
and M-Audio Delta are ideal, the budget can't reach that level. I'm
looking at sound cards between high-end pro-audio at the top and
consumer grade at the bottom, somewhere half-way. I'm not a purist and
at the same time 2 channel inputs and 2 channel outputs are limiting
creativity. Four I/O will be comfortable and 8 I/O will be excellent but
not necessary.
Hard disk drives and controllers. My last experience with SATA was
unpleasant. Our local supplier is pushing mainboards with SATA support
as an alternative to SCSI. Issues were mostly at the controller side and
I never resolved them. Will SATA be any good?
yep. just get your drive from Samsung or Seagate, unless youd like it to make annoying
sounds..
renoise: i guess you already have a dampening enclosure / seperate room? a Pentium M
Shuttle (SD11g5) has all the usual stuff (AGP/PCI/2xSATA-RAID) but with and external
fanless psu, and an internal fan activated "if/when needed", i guess i'd be
looking into whether or not the fan would come on under normal recording load, but you can
surely disable it via software or unplugging, if you want to live on the edge w/ just the
heatpipe..
theres also silent mini's from AOPEN but they dont have AGP slots, and AFAIK firewire
and linux-audio are still not allowed in the same sentence..
Thank you in advance.
ainion
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