With limited budget, my main first query is around the mbpros; any particular models to stay away from (as I will be going the refurbished route), and what would those in the know consider to be the base ghz/RAM edition for quickly and reliably running mainly protools/audio programs? I may dabble in filmaking down the road as I got a gig doing film archival stuff, and some work doing scores for some small film projects, which leads me to believe I may not want to skimp on processing power whatsover when working within video editing.
Where I would have to begin being seriously cost efficient will be in the arena of Mbox/digidesign hardware. The mini doesnt have enough inputs necessarily, but Im not opposed to it because its so damn cheap. Any feedback on Mbox 2 vs Mbox 2pro? Good stories/horror stories with any of these (especially around latency/general performativity)? The main selling point for having at least 4 live inputs would be the drum kit, other wise I really only need 2 anyways. Anything out there that is the toyota 22re of hardware; that is, I could find it used much cheaper and count on it lasting a while?
Any soundboards you would stay away from, or utterly recommend for small home studio?
A yes or no will suffice if no one wants to incriminate themselves or this blog, but could one count on "finding" plug-ins/other programs out there? I know that historically the answer to this is in constant flux, so at the moment, could one pirate if one chooses to go pirating?
Any cardioid mic feedback? I cant believe how cheap some of the Sure cardioids are these days, but I feel like they may be so for a reason.
So many review sites assume $ is no object, hence I am curious what yalls with knowledge in this arena have to say.
Cheerz
P.S. I painstakingly uploaded a few photos from my phone:
The lovely Oneida
the blob in the middle is Thurston Moore. He's fucking tall, and knows alot about Volvos.
This license plate says blaxmaxx, with a brooklyn signature on the window.
and then there's this
I think Tony already posted this guy-who is going to be my next tatoo:
The empty space on my block where a building was, which perished on election night:
Peace!
