Protools--vs--????, lost in the digi jungle----HELP!! Options

i am starting from the ground up with a home studio ....i definitly want a mac i have my own website and as well as being a musician/composer...im also an artist

what i need to know is basicaly this;;

what is the best and most cost efficant way to build a home studio that will be album quality and provide me with the warmth i enjoyed with 24 track 2'' tape --is this possible on a budget of a few grand or am i fooling myself??--------is protools the right way to go and what kind of mac is best 4 what im doing-----HELP PLEASE---

[holli]

Strange that often the classiest and most practical kit goes it's way into studios unnoticed whilst the problamatic kit gets loads of hot air expent on it!! I suppose if it works fine you can just lock up in the studio and get on with the business of creating strange and wonderful noises!
-byme!

They're seems to be unrest in the ranks! At least in some of the other forums about the severe dis-age of the 001. Like I said, you just don't hear motu users venting or even bothering to argue the finer details, it just does exactly what it says on the tin!

I figure if they were just to drop the price it could be seen as a reasonable entry level card in a field without a huge amount of competition (this is why I'm keen to watch UAD, though this is a little higher up the ranking).

I guess I just feel bad as I sold my 001 to a fellow macmusic member and pal and it don't run on his machine . It gave me serious gip half way though a film scoring job of some considerable scale, prompting some very late sessions. After a week of serious stress, it was fine ever more -just like Presto's experience and did as it was required.

In terms of adding positive advice and constructive help, I owned one of the very first dual 500 g4's straight off the production line (the 'holy shit! how many plugins!' days) -with an 001, and with Teiwaz's help was able to solve alot of early bugs. Within several days, word spread and five more of the dual-baby's were in the hands of associates. I remember protools helpline staff being very grateful when I let them know about the trick of adding the 'z' to the digiINIT file and thus fixing the system hangs that occur on many systems. Also the occasional incompatibilty with USB printer drivers and their extension friends (what a pisser for printing orchestral parts from Logic ). Another biggy is that the 001 is very sensitive to upgrades that come from apple, if you have one of these little devils, my experience is always run an OS that comes straight off an installation disk. If you upgrade, by hook or by crook get hold of a complete new installer cd. If all goes horribly wrong, try a fresh system folder. It can be the only way to aleviate damage to system prefs and components that make the 001 function like the walking wounded! (I don't know what caused these errors, only that they don't happen any more )

So, I guess all considered its not too bad!

I don't think anyone's particularly saying 'this is good or bad' etc 'do this or do that', everone works 'different' to the benefit of an enriched musical scene -but I think it's fantastic these forums go some way to preventing the trend of technology industries from isolating the customer and restricting knowledge of product functionality to the end of marketing campaigns (microsoft anyone?). Surely good gear sells itself.

Presto, Selmer are just the same with saxes! Those new horns just don't play and they're sold on the reputation of those fine craftsman working in the early to mid 1900's - bought out by merging Adolf Saxes own company and staff, and some guys from Conn also. They weren't such good business men as the Selmer family but boy could they make a horn! When those chaps retired or passed on, 1960ish I reckon, there was noone left to make the tools and presses. Mark VI became the VII, pphheuughhh. Mines a super action hybrid by the way! It is essentially a VI but three years before production ran. I guess the tools were still being developed so it's pretty unique as much of the mods would have been hand made components, the bore of the body is not a usual S/A, broader like the VI's, so I guess that could be a one off as well! Sorry, I can't find a suitable lust-i-con to express with!

Don't they just record better than newer horns as well, much more solidity and depth but also with lots of touchy-feely metal texture in the high freq's, 10k up.

Are we allowed to talk about saxes by the way?!

Hope it's ok to natter away, i'm just in one of those moods


Damann, if you pick this up -can I ask you some advice on microphones/technique for recording sax? I'd love to learn more about this and share some stuff. Perhaps start a topic like Presto suggests?

Anyways, see you all in the UAD interface forum. Holli x