Billy asked on another thread about my audio computer set up. Bear in mind the UK references here. A fairly long message just to warn those not much taken with the topic or UK standpoint.
Bear in mind the computer is now over four years old, but it is a 3GHz dual core processor with 1kb of ram running XP Pro. It was bought from Digital Village in the UK and unfortunately one of the guys has quite a bad disability related attitude problem so they're not so nice to deal with these days It is a large computer with several USB and firewire sockets, a DVD/CD drive, and a CD writer.. The computer is quiet but not silent. For that you need to go to someone like Carillon though this firm's reputation isn't all it might be. I've a delta Audio 24 96 stereo sound card which has SPDIF ins and outs, as well as analogue in-outs on phono sockets. For mic preamp I use a single channel L A Audio pre-amp and equalizer/compressor. The mic I favour for voice work is the Electrovoice RE20 which is pretty exspensive but can be had on eBay for £300 or less. The great strength of this dynamic mic apart from a smooth natural sound is that you can get close up without popping ruining the recording. This is why I use it for the Sandwell Talking Newspaper which you can hear by going to: http://www.sandwellvisuallyimpaired.org/sandwelltalkingnewspaper.php this is recorded on location at a friends place in his front room using an HHB DP500 mini-disc pro recorder. This brings me to the downside of the RE20: output. Pretty low. A lot of pre-amps aren't up to it, but the DP500 just about copes and has a low noise pre-amp. Editing is done in Soundforge 7 - can't at present afford to upgrade to 9. I use the time compression and eq and noise reduction a bit in SF, which nicely tidies things up. Although I do have an earlier version of Sonar installed I've not used that as yet, though I do have an eight channel MOTU audio firewire interface for when I venture into multi-track work which I'd like to do. On the monitoring side, I have a NAD amplifier which has the neat facility of being able to swich the record output independently on what you're actually listening to; so you can listen to something whilst recording something else. The speakers are prety humble Bowers and Wilkins which don't take up too much space and sound pretty good. I'm now thinking I might buy an Apple Imac in a year or two, but to use Windows on it, as well as taking advantage of some of the audio software that I believe is accessible with Voiceover. Amadeus has been talked about in this respect Iand I wonder if anyone else knows about it who's working on the Mac platform. I won't be so much a Mac switcher as a Mac alternative user. Hope that's of some interest and help. Ray. Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
