bleak. wrote:Mexicola wrote:Finally got myself the 2nd PC I've wanted so I can get my home studio back up and running again. Last had my studio up and running about 4 long, long years ago so I've been itching to get it going again.
Cash was/is tight so had to scour the 2nd hand market. Got a reconditioned P4 3.6Ghz, 80 GB HD (ok, bit small), 1Gb RAM, 17" Flat screen, Creative 5.1 surround sound system (stand alone unit so that's going on the TV - sod the PC), printer (coming to eBay soon), XP (not Vista thank God), plus I got him to rip the old Creative soundcard out (eBay item No.2) and put my old Audigy Platinum in there for me too so I can plug my gear straight in the front of the tower with no mucking about round the back.
Cost me the square root of fuck all and I can finally - FINALLY! - get busy writing and recording again.
I am a VERY VERY happy man again
do you have any recordings as such? i'm interested in hearing your music!
Sadly not. Or not any more anyway. Back when I was recording I was way more into guitar based stuff. Way more "traditional" 4-piece band stuff, guitar - bass- drums - vocals - some synths but rarely. I did dabble with some drone-like material too, even if I didn't even know what drone was back then (this was before I heard Stars of the Lid, etc.) I was just playing really. Long since lost in the realms of old dying hard-drives I'm afraid, which is a shame because some of it was quite good stuff.
Still, in many ways I'm quite glad. Means I can come to it fresh again. Fresh canvas as it were. Plus I've since seen my interest in electronica / IDM bloom which gives me a whole new area to experiment with. As and when I produce something that I think people here might like you guys will be the first to know. Right - back to installing my old sequencer, plugs-ins, etc, etc ,etc...