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In a message dated 9/15/98 3:19:52 PM Central Daylight Time, GRAIGORY2@aol.com writes: << I am getting PISSED with the sound quality of computers and what not... so I am thinking about getting the following things... 1)digital 8 track 2) dat machine 3)standalone CDR 4)ASR-X pro >> Well, let me throw in to the ring here.... well, just for starters, you're looking at around $1800-$2K for the 8 track, another $600-900 for the DAT, another $500-1K for the burner, and another $1200-1400 for the ASR-X (and these are way ballpark figures), so you're looking at least $4,100 - $5,300 in gear. Assuming you don't need a mixer, so in that case add another $500-$2500, depending on what kind of mixer you want. Now, a Pentium II with 256Mb of RAM and a several-Gb harddrive will probably run you around $2000 if you build it from parts. Then another few hundred for some sequencing and digital-recording software, and another $500 - $whatever to get a decent sounding midi sound module. You're looking at somewhere around $3K for a decent computer based system. I personally am running a Mackie board into two ADAT XT's, and using an Akai MPC2000 for sampling, sequencing and drum machine. But I also just discovered the joys of editing in the digital realm, on the computer....it's nice to be able to highlight a mistake and press "delete". You could go either way. If I was in your position, I'd probably try to set it all up as a computer based system before going for tape. I will highly recommend the MPC as an extremely good, user-friendly workstation, and I can also recommend Phillips CDD-2600 cd-drives - I've burned about 200 discs so far on mine, and only one "coaster". Anyway, good luck. - Bill Crossedout@aol.com