PC Recommendation

[Razorback_Rob]

I've got a fair bit of experience with audio recording. How many input channels are you wanting in a real world situation? Also is it multiple input types? Like xlr 1/4" jacks etc?

If you're doing professional recording you want an external sound card with external desk or a more powerful pc with automated midi controlled mixing.

If you're after good sound basic recording I've had a lot of success with the edirol ua-25ex. (External sound card with 2x multi inputs (xlr 1/4" and midi) has phantom power, monitoring etc. There are other such products out there but something along this line sounds ideal. It's worked well when I've recorded demos etc.

Will probably only be using 2 channels but could be useful to have capacity for 4 they will only ever be 3.5mm mix input and line out/speaker for each piece of kit connecting to the pc

There's no mixing to be done with it as such because it is passed directly into a program which handles each channel individually

We've done it with a desktop pc just using and additional sound card alongside the on board one which worked as we needed but obviously need to cut down on size for this


Toseland as above about £450

2 channel recording as I've suggest the ua-25ex will be perfect for you. Usb powered and connected device. Headphone monitoring and also outputs are RCA and 1/4" jack. (http://www.rolandus.com/products/details/970)

4 channel I've used akai eie interface (http://www.decks.co.uk/products/Audio_In..._-ye9m9LCQ) perfect for 4 inputs and I found it to be a good product for price.

Other than those kind of things for good quality setups you're looking at big mixing consoles which I've moved onto using (although not my own I only wish I could afford a studio setup (ams neve/Allen and Heath pro setups)

I would suggest at least 4gb of ram and definite multi core for any kind of heavy mixing (process heavy inserts etc) I use a lot of microphones running from 2x 4x12 cabs and have 2 microphones per cab and an ambient room mic. That plus the other guitar tracks. Multiple drum tracks bass tracks vocals and then adding in automated mixing etc is process heavy. Also I use software amps (guitar rig) and some drum software (superior drummer with the metal foundry pack added on) those together come to over 100gb so hard drive space on fast sata3 hard drives..

I would also suggest FireWire connections anywhere possible to cancel out any latency that could occur but this is just me being a bit ott now.

can't praise these Gems enough though. Perfect home recording if you don't mind doing multi tracking.