MurdockRayne

I'm on an Athlon dual core 2.4Ghz, 2GB Ram, 500GB 7200rpm SATA drive Audio Interface: Saffire Pro 40 Mics: SM58,SM57,SE2000,RODE NT1A,SE4a Midi controllers: Remote 91SL, Akai MPD42, BCF2000 Synths/grooveboxes: Novation A Station, Yamaha AN200, Korg ESX Pres: Art TubeMP V3 FX: DBX266XL Compressor, Lexicon MX200, Electrix FilterFactory Other: Lin6 Toneport, 2x Behringer PX2000 patchbay Instr: Bongos , Yamaha Pacifica guitar (badly out of tune, I just use it for some interesting fx), Yamaha DGX620 Electric Grand .........................................yes it's an obsession......... Monitors: Tannoy Reveal 5a + hifi speakers on a JVC !X333 amp Rastardley: the 192's inputs wont take a hi-z guitar input - you'll need a DI box to get the signal right - look at the Lin6 toneport GX - basically a DI box with an amp plugin OR you could look at getting a preamp and a mic to record direct from an amp. Additionally, you'll need an extra program to record your guitar into as Reason wont record audio - I've used Audacity when I needed to do this - freeware of course Phooey: I'd lean the other way these days - the new Macbooks have apparently dropped the firewire ports completely, which rules out a fair few really good interfaces!!! to be fair i've always been a PC man, but thought i'd mention it. RB83: Firewire is better for multichannel - though USB2 can handle 2 in 2 out with respectable latency figures I wouldnt trust it on an 8 in 8 out interface.

Just to add in 2 pence worth, I run a small project studio and i'm still trying to put together a portfolio for production. Now don't get me wrong, I've not got the space or equipment yet to record a whole drumkit, but I'd be willing to record any parts that DONT need the full acoustic treatment (guitar DI's etc) for nothing but part credits so I can 'put it on the cv' as it were. My point is really that there are probably a lot of places like mine that are better set up than the vast majority of home setups and can record at qualities such that the audio files can be taken and mixed with drum recordings taken from a pro studio - should reduce costs for the band at any rate, and you'd also be helping people like me trying to make some sort of name for themselves.