Rhapsody also sells DRM free music. ITunes digital rights management program completely destroyed the hard drive of my computer a couple years ago and I won't even install any kind Apple, iTunes or Quicktime software on my new computer.

I yahama all the way for me!

I stumbled across this website that made me cream myself

Audiophile's Guide to the Galaxy - Magazines, Help, Show reports, Links, Speakers, Turntables, Used equipment, and more...

seems fair at first, but they seem to reccomend the starsound technologies caravelle speakers as being particularly good.


I had a look at the website for said speaker company, and my experience pronounces it 'Faux-scientific snakeoil'

I mean seriously, all their stuff looks cheap, and they've spent more time on touting the benefits of their crazy resonance technology than they have on anything else, in hopes of trying to convince the world it works.

I'm not convinced.

Here's my temp setup. Just got the major stuff up, but am waiting on getting a new place so I'll have room to put my drums and spread things out properly:

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/5289/tempsetup.jpg

Looks cool dude, what are the specs on all of that? (PC, Monitors, speakers, etc.)

Are those speakers on top of the monitors hooked up, or are you just using their weight to damp the cabinets on the lower set?

Btw, I notice the dust cap on the right monitor is dented, or it looks it...you can fix that with some light suction if you're up for it. A vacuum cleaner set to its lowest setting with a little moisture on the end should grab it and pull it right back out again. Good as new!

Thanks man.

- The speaks on the bottom are Alesis MK2 active studio monitors.
(The right one fell off a desk the first day I had 'em, but it didn't change the sound noticeably, so I never tried to repair it)
- The top are just some PA speakers I use for A/B referencing.
- The red sub under the desk is an iKey 10" sub, with crossover to my monitors at about 50 hz.
- My soundcard is the one with the black faceplate on top in the rack above those audio processors. It's an Echo Audiofire 12 with 12 bal/unbal inputs/outputs. Firewire, 24bit converters and up to 192khz sample rate.
- The rest of those processors are just EQ, compressor, FX unit, and an enhancer. All Behringer. Mostly for live application, as I get better results with good software when recording.
- You see the obvious stuff in there. Mackie 16 channel mixer, Access Indigo2 synthesizer, RP500 guitar pedal, Crate bass amp, and on the right there's a 4x10 Peavey valve king half stack, a Fender KXR keyboard amp, on top is a crap Line-6 Spider head. All that is pretty much live app.
- There's like two other items in there, a groovebox and a Tascam digital track recorder, neither of which I use anymore.
- Guitars, drums, instrument mics not pictured.

Guitars:
Ibanez RG3520ZE electric, Ibanez AES acoustic/electric
Bass:
Fender jazz (vintage-ish, was my dad's, but he doesn't even know the actual model)
Drums:
Built kit, fusion sizes, 6 piece, scores of cymbals
Electronic kit - DTXpress 2 (piece of crap. I plan to integrate it into my acoustic drum setup eventually, for some effect options, kinda like Danny Carrey does. At that point, the PA & speakers will be used to drive them.)


The PC: (Built rig)
- Win XP pro sp3
- Mobo: MSI NVIDIA® nForce 750i SLI
- Core2duo E8400 @ 3.00ghz
- 4 gigs Kingston RAM (obviously only utilizing 3.25 of it)
- Nvidia GeForce 9600 @ 512mb
- dual monitors, (1 acer, 1 LG) 22 inch, both at 1680x1050
- 2 internal harddrives 150GB each, 2 externals 80GB each
- Porn.

The music software:
Sonar 7 Producer edition
NI Reaktor 4, and 5
NI Absynth 2, and 3
Waves Platinum bundle
Crap load of other VST's and VSTi's.

I think that's about it.
:)

O.o wow freebase, that's a pretty incredible set up there. You must have a couple musicians comin' in n' out every once in a while.

Thanks. :)

Nah, not lately. I do like recording people but I don't have the proper accommodations at the moment. Eventually though. :D

I lol'd.

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