studioporn

now that the weeping and gnashing of teeth known as drywalling is nearing completion, i'm able to devote more time to more interesting things like determining gear to buy for the studio as i rev it up.

one thing i will definitely be ordering this week is the PCI card for my RME 8 in/8 out analog audio interface. i bought the interface over a year ago for an insanely good price and never got around to buying the PCI card needed to interface with it, so it's just been sitting in a box unopened all this time. which is really quite a shame because RME makes some really nice converters, a definite step up from the delta 1010's i'm using right now, although those
guys have served me well the past few years. once i start wiring up everything in the studio i'll need to get another RME interface so i can have 16 ins and outs. 8 just doesn't cut it for lots of projects.

i'm going to ditch my avalon preamp. that thing has been nothing but a major disappointment for my tastes. fortunately, these units sell pretty well, so i should be able to get a decent price for it.

in its place i'm going to get a great river mp-2nv. people talk about this unit over and over again on gearslutz and elsewhere and of the 50 or so times i've seen it come up in discussions, i've heard absolutely nothing but good things about it. it's quite rare that i see this kind of unanimous support for a piece of gear, so i'm pretty stoked about it. i just gotta get off my butt and sell my avalon so i can actually afford it.