[Flemming]

nebula, on 25 April 2011 - 15:22, said:

Anyway... oops ... broke open the holy war again. Somebody punch me. I know it's not on purpose, but saying "if ppl had better understanding about computers in general" is kind of a troll that I just fed right into.

Troll?? Well, i wasn't on about different OSes or anything, hence the 'in general', but i understand that a few of you wants to take this towards the OS war

I'm happy for you that you found a nice OS to work on, regardless of which! But i'm not talking crap about either Unix, iOS, OSX, Linux or any other OS at all. You do ;) Calling Windows crappy, bad gui and what not - And to me, that's trolling! I can't see how windows would suck, just because it has tons of features and can be configured to suit everyones personal needs?? Let's take some other software as example - is 'MS Paint' better than Photoshop, since Photoshop has so many features, menus and gui settings? I just pointed out that Windows is not that scary as many ppl wants it to be. And that everything is a few clicks away, easy peasy

But i can say this much:

- the 4-5 clicks are pretty much the same in both XP, Vista and 7. And they have nothing to do with the security center (which in 7 is called 'action center' btw).

- If you miss the menu bar, try pressing 'Alt' button while you have a window open.

- All your windows settings can even be easily saved, and transfered to another windows machine in a jiff. All ready to create again. No need for 30mins of settings-hunting. This works also from Vista to 7 (called an 'upgrade'). A bit trickier from XP to 7 though (called a 'migration').

Again, i can agree i was trolling if i was dissing OSX, Linux or whatever - I didn't! I just said that Windows is really not that hard. On top of that, i can't see why it's bad for you that I like Windows? If you work best on another system, then you just avoid Windows, but there is no need to call it crappy, just because you can't make it behave - It's all in the manual, like with any other piece of software.

[Shuriken]

And on-topic again

I bought a Fostex VF-160 on ebay a couple of days ago. It's a digital recording desk with harddisk and cdr. It can record 16 channels. However to get to 16 channels you will need to get something like an ADA8000.

[Nestle]

Recording... My favourite recorder at the time is Tascam 238 cassette 8-track. Really really good for recording line sources.

My mixer is fancy tubepreamp TL-Audio that have given me so much headache, but now works really nice. It has dedicate firewire interface for all 12 preamps and integrates a computer really nicely to my analog studio.

I have spent thousands on the equipment and finally prefer a 100$ Tascam, cassette and old behringer mixer

Its not the equipment really ... The cassette is, as Nils stated, 1000x better than booting computers and cursing with HD space. 20 minutes of 8-track recording with normal cassette (I don't even prefer metal etc cassettes) and the system is runnin as soon as you hit the power button.

The TL-audio mixer is quite nice, but way too big. I was also after a&h mixer that was shown in previous posts, but for some reason paid 3x the sum and got this.

Next big investment was a few really good mics ... I don't prefer line sources always and have some really nice Hohner keyboard amps to drive guitars, bass and synths... Recommended - these suckers cost less than 200e at your local Ebay. 30e postage to Finland



Makes a difference compared to what a daw can make to the sound.

Let it bleed

This post has been edited by Nestle: 17 June 2011 - 07:21