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18 Hard Drives: Get a seperate Hard Drive(s) that will only be used for digital audio. Audio files are huge and you don't want to be recording on the same hard drive that your operating system is on. IDE drives will work and the new Ultra-ATA (UDMA)IDE drives are fast(a 66MB/sec and even newer 100MB/sec version) and very cheap. A PC motherboard has sockets for 4 IDE drives (Primary master and slave AND Secondary master and slave) although some may only allow 2 of the faster UDMA drive types. To connect additional hard drives takes a little work. You'll have to make sure your system BIOS can recognize the drive. There's usually some kind of message when you boot up about entering "setup", press F1 or something like that. The instructions with the drive and your motherboard will help you with these settings. You'll also need to set some pins on the drive itself to set it as the master or slave. I'm using 3 hard drives on my current system. One is dedicated to the operating system and programs. The other 2 are for digital audio. One is an EIDE 1.6 gig and the other is a UDMA 6.4 gig. The EIDE drive works fine, its just slower. CHECK THE MOTHERBOARD SPECS! A lot of software problems are actually due to hardware issues. It used to be that for more than 4 connection capabilities, your only choice was a SCSI card which allows at least (7) SCSI devices to be connected at once. SCSI comes in several flavors and is a little faster, but SCSI peripherals generally cost 2 or 3 times as much as their IDE cousins. The chart below shows the respective transfer speeds. IDE/UltraDMA SCSI IDE/ATA 2.1 - 8.3 MB/sec SCSI 5 MB/sec EIDE 11.1 - 16.6 MB/sec Fast SCSI 10 MB/sec Ultra ATA(UDMA) 33.3 MB/sec Fast Wide SCSI 20 MB/sec New Ultra-DMA 66 MB/sec Ultra SCSI 20 MB/sec New Ultra-DMA II 100 MB/sec Ultra 2 SCSI 40 MB/sec USB is now an option to SCSI. Theoretically, you can daisy chain 127 devices with USB. There's no special card needed because it's a built-in format on most newer computers (post 1999) and its plenty fast to handle digital audio. It's convenient because the USB peripherals are "hot-swappable" (meaning you can plug and unplug them with the computer on) and the cabling requirements are simpler than with SCSI devices. USB hard drives, cd-r's, cd-rw's and removeable drives are all available. Tascam and Event both have come out with small digital audio mixers that use the USB interface. They're both about $600 and provide 8 faders, EQ, digital input and output, etc. When you get tired of recording with the mouse, you can check out one of these as an interface between you and your favorite recording software. The newest audio interface on the block is FireWire and this one will fuel the next big audio hardware revolution. No PCI cards, just plug in and start recording. Its right on the motherboard like USB and ready to rock and roll. Devices that take advantage of FireWire are just starting to show up in 2001. Removable Drives: A standard Zip drive cartridge will hold about 10 minutes of 44.1 stereo digital audio. A 1 meg Jazz or Syquest Sparq drive cartridge holds about 100 minutes of 44.1 stereo digital audio. If you're doing a lot of different projects, a removeable storage medium can be very helpful. The zip cartridges are about $10 apiece, Jazz carts are $90-100 each and Sparq carts are $33 apiece. 18
Unfortunately, Syquest is out of business as of summer '99 , so Iomega doesn't really have any competition and can charge what they want. There is a new removeable drive out there called the Orbit that looks a lot like the Syquest Sparq. It holds 2.2gig per cartridge and they're also about $35 apiece. CD-r's and CD-rw's: 12x speed cd-r's are now in the $300 range! They can be SCSI or IDE as well. Bulk cd-r's on a spindle are down to $.20 each. Get a decent inkjet, do your own labels and make your own cd's one at a time; voila, instant record label. I picked up an 8x SCSI cd-r for $200 in Nov.99. I actually have a 2x SCSI cd-r and the 8x SCSI cd-r both installed on my system. I have some old backup software that works with the 2x cd-r and I use the 8x for burning cd's. I love burning a 50 minute cd in 8 minutes! CD-rw is great for backing up your files. It looks like another hard drive to the computer and you can reuse the medium. The physical cd's are more expensive, but it's a no-brainer. The Soundcard: This is the device that gets the sound into and out of the computer. There are lots of soundcards out there and you need to pick the right one for doing what you want to do. Again, go to the maufacturers' websites. Make sure the software that you have picked will work with the soundcard you're looking at. The software should list soundcards that have been tested and work correctly with it. Don't get a card that only has digital in/outs unless you have a DAT machine or other box that reads a digital signal. There are two flavors of digital in/out. One is S/PDIF which uses an RCA style connector (like your cassette deck) and the other is AES/EBU which uses a cannon connector (like a microphone cable). Some cards have one, some have both. You can't plug them into your home stereo and hear them! Whether its simply for stereo editing or full blown multi-track recording, get a soundcard with at least a stereo analog monitor output so when all the digital bells and whistles quit on you, you can plug this into your stereo and hear what the hell is going on OR not going on! A Word About Wordclock: If you're only using the computer to record and mix on, this doesn't apply to you. If on the other hand, you're planning on using the computer with other digital divices such as ADAT's or DA-88's, or a digital mixer like the Panasonic DA7 or Yamaha 02R, then this is very important to you. All digital devices have computers inside them running their own internal digital clocks. To work properly together, there has to be a MASTER WORDCLOCK device with all the others being connected to it. When you start to interconnect them and move the digital audio between devices, and don't properly connect the wordclock ins and outs, these different digital clocks begin to cause problems which can include pops and clicks, random noise, timing discrepancies, audio drift or no audio at all. Furthermore, different combinations of digital equipment will require some experimentation as to which particular device should be the wordclock master. The Drivers: These are little software programs that communicate with the operating system, be it Win95, Win98, NT or Win3.11 and facilitate the smooth interaction between your H/W and S/W. Win95 had a ver. 1 and a version 2 as did Windows 98 and now we have Windows 2000 to contend with. You need to make sure that your software and hardware BOTH are supported by whatever version of Windows is on your computer. 19 19
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onto his Hi-Fi deck. I have to say,
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miked amps and put on another track
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This version was completed 12/4/96.
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139 Cons: It can be VERY expensive.
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141 Studio time is fairly expensive
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SECTION V: MIXING 5.1) What is the
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