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@dooks
Hi Nerds.
I'm sure i've made this claim before but it's time to finally, oh god finally, make the switch to recording on a computer. Recording alone on my ancient Tascam hard disc 8 track with no editing and not even a pedal to allow dropping in means that one mistake can mean going back and restarting the whole take again. Last night after 300 takes of a long fast and new picked guitar part (the vast majority of which were 90% there) I finally cracked and threw my finger picks at the Tascam and stomped off. Decision made. With a DAW it might have been the work of an hour, maybe even minutes, to stitch a few good takes together. But I'd wasted the best part of two days on it and had nothing to show but a headache and sore fingers.
For most of the time i've had that 8 track i've been in bands so was recording in studios of varying quality and only using the 8-track for my rough home demos. Now I'm in a situation where my home demos are the finished product. I feel can no longer put off making the change to PC or Mac and appropriate software
My muso/producer friends have been repeating "getamacgetamacgetamac" at me for literally years, but I must confess whenever I had money I'd spend it on bikes or guitars and amps knowing that I could always find someone to record me. So I've always had crappy old laptops that weren't up to the job of recording music on. My best effort to date was last year buying a cheap Mackie USB pre-amp... which it transpires (despite the manufactureres claims) is totally unusable with a PC.
SO! what to people use? Is it still Mac all the way or are the new generation of laptops closing the gap? Will i still be limited by software choice with a PC? What's the haps?
Cheers,
A