isolation rack, advice / help?

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Seems really expensive for what it is. I can't imagine it being that hard to come up with something similar yourself, at a fraction of the cost.

 

[yarrick19]

do the units that have the mac tray take up rack space, so when it says "16u rack with mac tray" does that mean, there's 16 units but 7 are taken up by the tray??

It looks your statement above is true. This page has a picture of the 12u system and with the mac tray it shows 5 rack spaces available for other equipment:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/IsoBoxStu12M

 

[Metaltastic]

You know, if one were to get a cabinet with a glass door and cut a few holes in the back, I'd think that'd be enough isolation and ventilation for a computer and a 192 (which I assume are the only things you have with fans)

 

[jval]

i want one of these too... just so damn expensive...
More so for my 192 than the mac... those things are loud as hell...

 

[lolzgreg]

its not that bad, but it does change the tone of things when using high compression

Oh yes it does. Why don't you just make a little iso box for the noisy gear?

 

[egan.]

Hey Joey. Don't waste time here. Just email the question to your sales guy at Sweetwater. My guy answers me within a couple of hours most of the time and I didn't just buy an HD rig.

My general experience with these cabs is they are absolutely worth it.

 

[Zombietakeover]

i have machine noise in my vocals tracks

i need an iso rack

Don't you do vocals in a separate room?

 

[joeymusicguy]

Don't you do vocals in a separate room?

nope
im at a new place now (a big house)

 

[abt]

Can you put the gear in another room and run long cables to it?

I've used these kind of iso boxes. I can't comment on this actual unit but the ones I've used aren't completely silent. Soon enough they too weren't quiet enough for my liking.

 

[Soundlurker]

For the HDDs:

Don't know if it's applicable to a Mac.

 

[dani]

mac pros have custom hard drive mount things. i didn't think mac's made such a lot of noise, either, but if it's leaking into the vocals track..

thought about just moving the mac further away?

a note on SSDs, joey. SSDs are capable of rewrites to last typical users more than 10 years. what's more, a rewrite of a take in the DAW doesn't equal a rewrite on the hard drive. a new audio file is created for the event, so you just end up with both files next to each other.

SSD access times are incredible. a typical hard drive is on the scale of ~10ms, an SSD is around ~0.1ms, if not less. you will notice a pretty big difference with an SSD with general computing, but most DAWs do buffered reads and writes with the RAM, so access time isn't such a huge deal.

are SSDs worth it though? certainly. if you're gonna get one, stick with intel. their drives are the shit.

thanks,

 

[006]

Guys, he said the Mac itself is fine...

 

[gabriel g.]

Hey Joey check this out:

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/456816-want-near-silent-192s.html