Mac for Recording

[Daniel LeClaire]

Thanks guys for all the replies. A lot of good information here! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[Vdrummer]

A friend of mine owns a small commercial studio and uses Digital Performer with MOTU interfaces. He can import Pro Tools projects and export them for compatibility with other studios and the MOTU gear is much, much cheaper. The HD192 uses the same converters as Digi's 192 khz interface and is quite a bit cheaper. He also uses a TC electronic powercore and on a recent album I recorded for him he had 12-15 mikes on the drum kit, (five piece kit) and had a total of over 100 tracks on some tunes on a dual 867 G4 (several years old) Mac.

IMO It's difficult to get a good "pro" studio drum sound with less than 8 mikes. Kick, snare, 3 toms, two overheads, and either a bottom snare mike, or a hat mike or a ride mike with the channel left open. I know it's been done, but it's harder with less mikes.

I hope this helps!

Brad

[Mathias Sarsgaard]

In my opinion you can't get any better recording computer than the G5, but I'm shure a G4 would be more than fine for you!

A good solution would be a Sound Card with ADAT, an a converter. The new M-Audio is pretty cool.