i can't be sure about you're 1st answer but i too think i'm too paranoid p

i'm pretty much set on buying cubase system 4 now & a new comp my cousin (sound engineer but for movies mostly so he said he didn't know as much about music recording & nearly none for guitar) gave me idears for new computer (about picking stable & tested systems for audio) so pretty much the only thing i'm left undecided on is the mic he said the one u advised me to get is good & pretty generic but i should pick something a lil more expensive (& that's what he wouldn't get specific on since he didn't knew about guitar / instrument recording) so after a lil searching (& discarding the 3000$ mics...) i set my mind on an audio technica AT 4033

here are some samples of diferent mic (obviously neumans are out of question for price) including the AT 4033:

http://microphones.free.fr/micros.htm

do you think the AT 4033 sound ok? (it's a lil more expensive then the sure but i can still manage that much ) & did anyone hear some bad stuff about this mic? (it poped on a few occasions while searching about classical guitar recording but most things i've found when searching where about much more expensive mics ) else i see that the MI4 card that comes with cubase has a pre amp does this mean it is ok to go directly mic>soundcard or is the preamp crappy?

also all the samples on the page seems to be done with a pair of mic & i'm wondering if the quality is representative of what i'd get with single mic (not in that the sound would be as good but as in if 2 mics Y sound better then 2 mic X for a specific instrument is it likely then 1 mic Y will sound better then 1 mic X or is 2mic & 1mic recording diferent enuff to possibly give me false idears)

ps: guess i lied when i said it was the last question sooner... sorry>< & thanks for all those replies =)

I've got a 4033a. It's a nice mic, but this takes us back to the "how noisy is your room" issue. The 4033 will pick up every little sound in your room, including traffic outside. If you live somewhere quiet, don't mind a little background noise in your recordings, or don't mind building a temporary dead space out of airers and duvets then you'll be fine.

The 4033 is best known as a vocal mic (especially dialogue), but will make a nice guitar recording. You can plug the 4033 directly in to the MI4. The thing you need with a condenser mic is phantom power, which the MI4 supplies (hurrah).

Two mics wont necessarily make a better recording, rather a different recording.

K

well about my room it's pretty much noiseless (there is like 1 car coming thru my street...every 20min mid day & every uh 3-4 hours at night><) live in a very calm street because it's 1 side only & basicly the only reason to take it is if you live in the street & i pretty much live at the end of it hehe, my current comp makes ton of noise but the one i'm building is built with noiseless in mind (buh bye new geforce lines sigh, actually considered picking something with a onboard video so i could get a geforce 6800 gt anyway & just unplug it & use onboard if i wanted to record><)

oh yea also i was wondering if for lower end recording product(compared to the multi thouthand dollars package of studio that is) it also applied that you should get a specific motherboard & such to expect it to be stable? because if i stick to the setup advice my cousin gave me i can say buh bye to upgradability hehe><

Every PC component will cause problems or be incompatible with some other component that exists out there. You can minimise the chances of having an unhappy computer by researching as much as possible but, ultimately, you need to just get on with building your machine and hope for the best. Buy your components from somewhere that will let you return goods if they don't work out for you. You could try and find someone who has recently built a stable audio workstation and clone their setup...

well the thing is i was planing to go with very recent stuff at 1st so i dunno if i can find a whole lot of ppl that record on this (was planing to wait for the new nvidia based motherboards for athlon 64 with pciX supporting sli to hit market...) so i was wondering if a setup that is very well tested was required (ie is audio gear usualy very picky) i mean it happens to have incompatible stuff in other field (like vidcards) but it's pretty uncommon while my cousin seemed to say that it was pretty much risky to take anything else then a asus P4c800deluxe or asus a7n8x & that it might be worth a shot if i didn't want an audio dedicated comp (was gonna be a game / game programming comp with audio as an afterthought at 1st since i don't have cash for 2 comp)

well basically i think what i'm wondering is sure there is a risk it won't work but "how hight" is the risk when buying bleeding edge stuff (i don't mean risk that it wouldn't work at release either i mean i'm find if there is trouble for the 1st 2 monthes or so while bioses & drivers still need reworking) just how hight is the risk that 3-4month later stuff would be unusable?

Dunno...

ack guess i drained all the knownledge source for this week hehe=) well i'll have to try & test i guess>< thanks again for all your help

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