So, a mixing deadline is upon me...
posted on 23 Mar 2007 under category News
Yes, sometimes the progress of life FORCES the end of procrastination. And thus good news mixes with bad.
The ‘bad’ news is that I must BUST MY ASS to finish mixing the Venom tracks and Bellum Aeternum in the next couple of weeks. Pronto.
The ‘good’ news is the reason why - after six years of obsolescence, I’m finally getting a new PC.
Not just ‘getting’, though - I’m going to build it myself. I’ve been reading up on hardware websites, reading how-to books, and in the not-too distant past watched my pop-in-law build his own. It’s not beyond me, I don’t think. It should be fun.
See, since we had a second kid last year, but never adjusted our withholdings, we got back a shitload more money than we expected this year. Even after the regular savings portion and stocking away an extra-large part for family vacation, I’ve got about $1500 to throw at this thing. So far, the things I’ve picked out are:
I’ll be dragging my Pioneer DVR111 dual-format DVD/CD writer over to serve as my optical drive. For an office suite I’m thinking about trying OpenOffice instead of paying the Micro$oft tax for ‘real’ Office. Anyone had any experience with it? Horror stories?
As for graphics, I’d like something okay but not a bank-breaker. I don’t need some super-mongo overclocked beast. Comparing my gaming needs (about year-old games, max - Doom 3, Quake 4, Brothers in Arms/CoD2/MoH-PA/etc.) and price I’m thinking mostly about an nVidia GeForce 7900 or 7950, not sure which or which sub-line. I’ve also got to get a new monitor - I want a 17” flatpanel, so size is limited there, but I’m still way under budget so I want a really nice, fast one, good for gaming as well as general use. Suggestions welcome.
Anyway, I’ll be buying and building within a month, so I have to clean off my old PC fast - which means until then, I’ll be mixing my ass off.
Wish me luck…
(Again, I’m happy for the time capsule of where I was with posts like this one. I’m still largely on the PC I ultimately built a month or so after this, though it’s on Windows 8 and I’ve got an even better graphics card and sound card. My studio logs back up my timeline here - I kept wanting to say I was lazy, but looking over the posts of the past few months, again, from seven years later, I’m amazed I got as far as I did.
The trick is to not let taking it easy on my younger self turn into lack of personal drive in the present and near future.)