Seriously - I know you guys love Macs, but there are a few of us who can't put down the money on one and would like to have a solution that doesn't involve a three grand machine... I mean, come on! That's a three hundred dollar box (EDIT: the recording interface, not the Mac)! There's got to be a better way to get consistency, be it a software tweak, fixed drivers, something like that. That's a serious wad of money to throw into something for recording, and given the time he'll take to get everything important moved over, learn things all over again, find software he likes, et cetera, he could be throwing twice as much money into that kind of thing than he would be if he went for a good pre, a new sound card, and just for the hell of it a mic or two.
Maybe he also has other stuff that requires some part of the PC structure, or software that isn't available for the Mac - I'd be fucked without OrCAD PSPICE, and I know I'm not the only one in the world who has platform issues - or that just doesn't run right. And honestly, as far as operating systems go, I haven't been told by even the most loyal of Mac users that the structure that ships with Mac doesn't hold a candle to Linux, between stability, expandability, and tweakability, when it comes to processor-intensive beasts like quantum simulation.
Am I the only one who ever heard 'it's a poor carpenter who blames his tools'? Sure, it has its limits, but he's not using shit gear, so I'm sure he could be forgiven for hoping that someone on a recording board could offer a suggestion not relying on telling him to spend money and change his way of doing things because there's no other way. If I heard everywhere I turned that some magical fairy box was the solution like I heard in the fucking breast enhancement e-mails some dipshit keeps sending me I'd drop the place and make some friends in the tech support department.
Jeff
