Re: AW: i-mac

[Florian Anwander <fanwander@mnet-online.de>]

Hello Luis

L.Angulo schrieb:
> i wanted to ask you people how powerful his new imacs are for recording
> thinking about getting one as well

I would not recommend an imac due to a simple physical reason: recording 
requires to attach different additional gear (interfaces, 
harddrives,...); it would not be very lucky when the connectors are 
placed at the rearside of your monitor. All the cool styling will be 
lost when all the cabling lianas will hang from the monitor.

Also the position of the DVD/CD drive is not very lucky for a musicians 
workplace. At least at my studio, the monitor is placed a top of the 
mixing console and behind a masterkeyboard. It is around four feet away 
from me - I imagine it to be quite annoying to handle the disk drive 
when burning my daily audio CD (ok, maybe I am oldfashioned).

I don't know whether the imac can be noisy due to ventilation sounds; 
but if it would, I would be close to impossible to keep away the noise 
from a microphone if you record inside the control room.

To my opinion a separated computer - let it be a mac mini or a closed 
mac book (which is what I use) with an external monitor is more suited 
for a recording studio

Florian