[DeanMachine]

I don't have a computer.

[Drbumpy]

I play using a massive network of parts harvested from old speak n spells

[Burgah]

AMD Phenom II 955 X4 @ 4ghz
Asus M4A79XTD EVO Mobo
4GB G. Skill Ripjaws
2 X WD 500GB Caviar Black
Crossfire MSI 5770

[Butane]

copied and pasted from my steam community profile:
Asus P6X58D Premium; i7-920 oc'd @ 3.2Ghz; CM haf 932; CM TruPower 750; 12Gb OCZ Gold 1600z oc'd @ 1800mhz; Tuniq Tower 120; PNY GTX 260; Samsung Syncmaster 204b; Plantronics audio 645; Merc Stealth Keyboard; Logitech G5; Win7prox64

[Agua]

ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe
AMD Phenom II 940 BB oc'd to 3.4 GHz w/Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Tower Heatsink
Corsair HX620w PSU
8 GB Mushkin PC6400 @ 800 MHz
Sapphire HD 4870 1GB @ 800MHZ GPU clock/1GHz memory clock
Evga 8600gt 512MB (for physx processing)
RME HDSP 9632 (professional audio card)
2 X 400 GB WD Caviar SE16 + 500GB in external drives
240w QuadFet Technics Panasonic power amp
AR3 three-way bookshelf monitors
Logitech g500
Sennheiser HD650 headphones
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit
22" Gateway monitor @ 1680*1050
Antec Solo case w/ 6 fans + PSU fan w/ less than 22dBA of noise--in other words, the fans are barely louder than the ambient room noise.



Amp rack with 12-band EQ

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

1200$ in sound equipment
Gateway monitor

Y U DO DIS?

[Agua]

um...I'm an audio engineer by trade...and the sound card and headphones alone were about $1200...the AR3's were a trade for labor and were unusable when I acquired them, but was able to fix them after about 8 hours work--for being made in the early 60's they are still freakin' amazing. The amp rack was my dad's old stereo system, so I just kinda inherited that when he didn't want it any more.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

um...I'm an audio engineer by trade...and the sound card and headphones alone were about $1200...the AR3's were a trade for labor and were unusable when I acquired them, but was able to fix them after about 8 hours work--for being made in the early 60's they are still freakin' amazing. The amp rack was my dad's old stereo system, so I just kinda inherited that when he didn't want it any more.

I know, I know, I need a bigger monitor >.<

:P

Not bigger, better. A 22" samsung Syncmaster would blow that out of the water, and get three headshots before it reached the top of the arc to hit the ground.

And if you are an audio engineer shouldn't you be using nay smaller reference monitors rather than two giant speakers?

[Agua]

Look closer at the picture...you'll notice a small pair of shitty computer speakers and they are permanently dialed in at 85dB C-weighted, slow response, and there's a shitty "sub" along with those, decoupled from the desk, sitting behind the monitor. If I mix on the big speakers (also referenced to 85dB etc, etc) and it sounds acceptable on the shitty speaker, then I know I'm on the right track. Between the nice speakers, the shitty speakers, nice headphones, ear buds, shitty headphones, my car stereo, and an old beat up boom box, I can dial in a mix pretty well and be confident that it will translate. The outboard EQ is not activated during mixing (more for pleasure listening), and other than a push in 225-300 Hz range in the AR3's, the mix translates pretty well to other systems.

The monitors I really want are between $7,000-$15,000 per monitor, and yes, they are worth every penny. I've never heard speakers like these before, and you can be sure that your mixes will translate to just about any playback system.

http://www.pmc-speakers.com/productCats.php

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Look closer at the picture...you'll notice a small pair of shitty computer speakers, and there's a shitty sub woofer along with those, decoupled from the desk, sitting behind the monitor. Between the nice speakers, the shitty speakers, nice headphones, ear buds, shitty headphones, my car stereo, and an old beat up boom box, I can dial in a mix pretty well. The outboard EQ is not activated during mixing (more for pleasure listening), and other than a push in 225-300 Hz range in the AR3's, the mix translates pretty well to other systems.

The monitors I really want are between $7,000-$15,000 per monitor, and yes, they are worth every penny. I've never heard speakers like these before, and you can be sure that your mixes will translate to just about any playback system.

http://www.pmc-speakers.com/productCats.php

You could replace half of that stuff with a pair of M-audio studiophiles and it would fix your 225-300hz range for 150$

Then again I have always been partial to headphones for sampling accuracy anyway. I really need to upgrade my setup, the only sound my computer has is a pair of stupid headphones... and they are ZALMAN BRAND and 5.1 channel.