What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
Mine - an Axe-Fx Mark II.
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Razorwit
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 15:08:16
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Easy: my patch panels. When you have a bunch of outboard patch panels make life soooooo much easier.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 15:09:00
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New eye glasses on a new prescription.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 15:31:21
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wireless keyboard and mouse. Such a "duh, this only cost $30, why didn't I do it years ago?" moment.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 15:34:49
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Proper studio desk and rack mount cases.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 15:38:04
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Rme ucx was my latest hardware purchase and it has opened many new doors.
StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen. I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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2014/07/07 15:50:05
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 15:52:16
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gswitz
Rme ucx was my latest hardware purchase and it has opened many new doors.
What new doors did that open for you? Just curious....................
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 16:01:18
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The ARC 2 system for mixing has improved my life. It comes with a calibration mic, an omnidirectional condensor mic (which can be used for other purposes), is the hardware part of the package. The room correction software for my monitors is what makes this package special. Its virtual monitoring is worth the price by itself.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 16:05:07
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Modded my MOTU Core24IO with new low slew-rate ON-Brand OP-AMPS and added a BLA clock with an Apogee BNC cable. The OP-AMPS sound more open, and the clock improved transients on drums. I've also recently added a True Precision 8 Mic-pre. It's really tight, but HOT!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 16:06:49
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 16:13:30
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Offtop thread started by Cakewalk... I can not guess the meaning.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 16:16:06
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@goooler
I can now record sixteen tracks live all on the laptop. I have eq, compression, reverb and complex routing on every track and bus. I can mix mains and monitors and headphones separately live. I can load spectral analysis and meters for every input and output and save the screen layout. And it fits in my backpack.
StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen. I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 16:51:27
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I recently replaced a dying MIDI controller with an A300 PRO. I never used the controls on the other keyboard ever, and I must say the ACT button is really handy (the extra 7 keys come in rather handy as well). First time ever to control SONAR from a piece of hardware, so is rather nice.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 17:00:45
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 19:56:34
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For me it's a Kemper Profiling Amp.
Sounds fantastic and reamping via spdif couldn't be easier.
Recording - prints a mono DI track (L) and mono track of the amp you're playing (R).
Reamping - send the DI back into the Kemper, change to another profile, arm a new track (mono or stereo), press play to record the reamped track.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 20:05:35
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I just got 6 25' MIDI cables.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 20:16:52
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I added a second computer keyboard and attached keyboard shortcut stickers to the keys. It's cordless, so I can put it out of the way when I'm not using it and pick it up and place it on my lap when I need to use it.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 20:40:02
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Looking forward to better DAW capability with a new, just purchased, on-the-way, got-it-for-a-great-deal: FocusRite Saffire Pro 24 DSP. Hot Dog, becan & beans even! Best, HeyDan 
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 20:45:55
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Radial Pro48 DI box. Actually improved the sound of my guitar. Now I can record a take playing through my PODxt (zero latency) and record a dry guitar signal to reamp through Guitar Rig. Awesome!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 21:15:28
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Without a doubt, my StudioCat computer. Screams, compared to what it replaced and has been rock solid with X3e, and my video programs even like it too.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 21:18:39
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Finally got a decent headphone amp which enables me to give different band members custom headphone mixes when tracking.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 21:24:13
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SSDs - now that I have them and have experienced them, I would never go back to regular hard drives.
Two internal 2TB SSDs laptop stuffed with Larry's deals and awesome tools. Studio One is the cat's meow as a DAW now that I've migrated off of Sonar. Using BandLab Cakewalk just to grab old files when migrating songs.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 21:54:04
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mixmkr
Without a doubt, my StudioCat computer. Screams, compared to what it replaced and has been rock solid with X3e, and my video programs even like it too.
You should get some acoustic treatment for that scream. On topic, I got 4 walls spaced farther apart from each other.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 22:04:11
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Install a liquid cooling system onto my CPU.....at this new location, the room acoustics really brought out the computer fan noise once sonar was working away.
Once the liquid cooling system was installed the annoying fan noise is reduced significantly.
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2014/07/07 22:25:11
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mixmkr
Without a doubt, my StudioCat computer. Screams, compared to what it replaced and has been rock solid with X3e, and my video programs even like it too.
You should get some acoustic treatment for that scream.
Actually, StudioCat put the computer guts in a decent case, that does just that. My power supply for the mixer and noise from the other rooms, are always much louder than the computer.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 22:49:52
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A 3TB drive for my sample libraries and content!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 22:56:22
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#1 FW-1884 control surface, not a recent purchase, but man I love it.
Recent, SSD for the sample libraries, much more "instant gratification".
Tom
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 23:23:24
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The MPCStuff mod kit for my Akai MPD18...suddenly a set of pads that work as advertised.
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2014/07/07 23:43:21
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Another one:
Speaker grills, to serve as protection from kids and cats.
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