Doberman 2008-04-28 16:31:30

WE WANNA FUCK A DOG IN THE ASS

Buoy 2008-04-28 16:52:47

...lol :(

Quarl 2008-04-29 03:16:39

In all honesty I have no idea what that dsp card thingy is, even after having read the description for it. However, if you think it's going to immediately benefit you, go for
it. Sounds to me like the old guns versus butter model.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_ver sus_butter_model</a>

ObviousTroll 2008-05-02 18:49:14

I need a DSP card, my cpu sucks donkey dick.

Anyways, what contest did you win?

Quarl 2008-05-04 12:47:36

Eh. The guns vs butter comment was an analogy. You have a very literal way of looking at things... not a bad thing though.

Quarl 2008-05-04 13:20:12

lol. I know what you mean. Emotion through text can be difficult, especially if you don't like to use emoticons or caps lock. I like to joke about how computer companies should make a sarcasm button on their keyboards. It would work like caps lock and would do something to the text to convey sarcasm. Dunno. Maybe I should sell my idea to Steve Jobs and let him mold it into something.

Quarl 2008-05-04 14:12:13

Sure Steve is a dick, but he's made a killing off of ripping other people's ideas and augmenting them into his machine. Besides, I was being sarcastic.

I could really go for a sarcasm button right about now.

SuperGoodSound 2008-05-05 10:34:33

The EMU 1212 is an excellent choice for the money - especially the onboard fx I've heard to be top-notch. It's a very good thing to be able to take load off the cpu itself and mix through say powercore/uad/scope type of cards (I assume it loads the fx themselves as vst fx - I would think that would be the easiest form of implementation...)

I'd go with the Wharfedale's over the KRK's (which I know to be a little on the fatiguing side because of their typical hyped high-end) - whereas most british/english brands of speaker tend to be much less colored. Congrats on winning the contest...what was it? How much was it, particularly?

The only problem with a pci card per say is that you expose the DAC to a good deal of electromagnetic interference due to it being right next to the motherboard/cpu. Outboard interfaces tend to exhibit a little less jitter in this respect - but the tradeoff of having the onboard fx would put me towards getting the EMU 1212 anyhow just from what I've heard from it. I'd go ahead and purchase that one.

Monitors are indeed a very good investment (especially at that price range they will certainly up your game...) You should consider getting both. However - I will say this - if you want to save yourself a very good deal of money and still attain a very reliable monitoring system - consider the Behringer Truth's Actives with the 8" woofer. If you don't already have something nicer than this (I can't remember if you were one of those guys here mixing on sh**y headphones or whatever...) then this will be a huge step up. There are a few tricks to the monitor upgrade though that you should seriously consider unless room aesthetics are simply something that you feel you CANNOT fudge on. First - when you get the monitors - also buy 12 neoprene mouse pads from a junk sale online or wherever you can get them - just make sure they are the same width. Put 3 of those neoprene mousepads stacked on top of each other under the front and back parts of each monitor so that each stack of 3 covers the full part of the monitor's base as it sits on your desk.

If you have a computer (or external drives that tend to buzz or whatever else) sitting on a hard desk - do the exact same thing with it - in fact you might consider using some polyurethane glue to glue an extra mouse pad or two (cut them to fit of course) to the inside of the computer case to dampen the sound. Remember that the more ambient noise you can eliminate from your recording environment - the better low-level resolution and detail you will be able to detect. Meaning your judgment of track levels and eq tweaks will be better. Next, if you can find a bunch of eggshell carton foam to tack to the walls (the more the better) or if you can put up blankets on the walls or even (if your parents will okay it) mount extra drywall up to the existing wall (on the studs naturally - so it doesn't fall) leaving a 4 inch space between the wall and the new piece (this allows sound to become trapped in the area between, bounce back and forth and absorb at a much higher rate than it would otherwise) you will make much more significant gains per dollar than if you were to spend it simply on better monitors. The fact is - the closer to an absolutely acoustically dead room you can make it - the more accurately you'll be able to monitor. Of course, this is simply because all reflected waves have gone through time delays and attenuation - meaning that when the reflected waves combine with the direct radiation you will not only suffer from hearing comb filtering artifacts but also significant coloration, room modes, standing wave sympathetic vibrations and other such detrimental things.

The only thing that should be resonating and moving anywhere in a completely ideal room are the speaker transducers and your eardrums...that's it. Nothing else should be moving or re-radiating sound...

Now - if you were to do this I would probably suppose you would have a couple hundred bucks left over. Here's what I would do. Buy Voxengo's Elephant limiter and their gliss eq. I would also seriously consider picking up a copy of Sir2 (convolution reverb) as it runs at 0ms latency that is full real-time - and virtually nothing sounds better than using convolution for reverb applications...especially being that it works without any latency - it is very worth it for the price ($150 i think?). I'll send you a copy of all the free convolutions I have accrued over the past couple of years as well if you like (and you end up getting it...)

JoeyNukes 2008-05-06 20:24:11

gawd..you are soooo blah blah blah...

i've been less motivated with my jokes lately D: