Mac or PC user? Pro - Semi Pro - Amateur?

[006]

21 years old. Full-time professional for about 6 years now. About 72 hours a week, heh. Macs and ProTools are my weapons of choice. At my current job, it's a PC running Vegas...but it's a rediculously tricked out monster that cost my boss about $4k, which still can't do as much as my dual 2.0 G5 can, . My new place is in my signature, the Looney Bin. Mostly local acts, and a couple of indie label artists. At my old job I worked with tons of celebrities and major recording artists, a bunch of major motion picture foley and ADR, bla bla. But the old studio was a multi-million dollar place. The new place is...a multi-ten-thousand dollar place, ...so yeah. First Job.

Right now I'm about to get Digital Performer to try out on my PowerBook. I hear many great things about it and finally decided to give it a go myself. I have high expectations, but I feel that it will perform nicely.

And btw, I tweak Andy's base C4 settings to each application.

~006

 

[chadsxe]

Between Semi & Am ......24......I get about 40 hours a month of paid work....(depending on the month).....but I also spend countless hours working on my own stuff....

P4 3.2HT
2 gig DDR
2 80 gig 10000rpm drives
Benchmark ADC1 & M-Audio 1010 (main stuff through the bench & drums through the 1010)
Sonar 4
Wavelab 5

 

[unsilpauly]

33 and been semipro for about five years and im about to go full time pro next week(luckily, the old lady has a decent job ). im sick of retail and just got a bunch of new stuff and redoing the rooms in my studio and starting to advertise. i use imac g5 and powerbook g4 with dp4.61(main app) and protools 7 le(mixing and over dubs) at my studio. protools hd3 at another studio i do partime work.

 

[HeyxYou]

30 years old, possibly a pro? I teach recording at a university, have been engineering for about 12 years, teaching for 3. Personal set up is cubase SX 2 with drumagog plugins on a pentium 4 PC. Work machines are both PC and Mac, I prefer the G5 with the C24, that's my weapon of choice for my own projects.

 

[Kenneth R.]

21 yrs old, Amateur. I use a PC and despise Apple products in general, but I hate Microsoft as well. I just hate them less. I run Cubase.

I am much more heavily focused on my main source of income- electrical engineering, and my band. production is a fascination of mine and something I see as extremely useful knowledge to any musician.

 

[STINNETT]

I use a PC running Sonar 5 Producer Edition.
29 years old.

Going by your criteria I would say "semi-pro", simply because I do in fact make money doing this stuff. However, I have a day job that really pays the bills.

I just do small time local bands so the money is small time as well.

I am a musician first and got into recording for my own purposes. I just happened to expand enough to turn it into a bit of a business because I enjoy the recording process so much.

 

[Wadi]

I use a PC running Sonar 5 Producer Edition.
29 years old.

Going by your criteria I would say "semi-pro", simply because I do in fact make money doing this stuff. However, I have a day job that really pays the bills.

I just do small time local bands so the money is small time as well.

I am a musician first and got into recording for my own purposes. I just happened to expand enough to turn it into a bit of a business because I enjoy the recording process so much.

Same here. But I use Cubase and am 31 this year.

 

[SteelRat]

I'll go with semi-pro, even though I spend my entire day at a workstation. I'm in radio production, and I'm the on-call guy to mix all the bands who come in to play live on the stations, some regular live performance mixing, I do the bulk of the stations' imaging, concert promotional spots (both local and national)...and some of my own music when I have the time. So, I guess I'm a pro in some areas and a semi-pro in others.

I live mostly in PC world (at work and home), with Audition, Cubase, Sonar, DFHS...P4 3.05Ghz, 2.5 Gig RAM, 200Gig HDD, M-Audio...and anything else I can get my hands on...

...but I'm considering seeing how the other half lives and getting a mac to record with...

...oh, and I'm 36...

 

[booyah14]

I am 24 using a G5 mac. I am a weekend warrior and have the c4 setting but not the c4.

 

[daveotero]

Pro for about 5 years, running Nuendo on a PC (dual Opteron).

24 years old

 

[James Murphy]

21 yrs old, Amateur. I use a PC and despise Apple products in general

i love to get the actual reasons from people when they make a statement like this.... don't want to change your mind... just want to know your reasons. invariably when i ask this question of a "Mac-hater" there is not much forthcoming in terms of a solid answer, and when they actually have reasons they are usually easily refuted... you know, things like "you can't right-click on them" and other such nonsense.... ooh, don't let me forget my favorite: "you can't GAME on them" . i have seriously never heard a reasonable reply from anyone i have ever asked the question "so why do you DESPISE macs?" i keep waiting for an answer like, "when i was 7 a Mac exploded and burned down my family home, killing all our pets"... now that would be a good reason to DESPISE a Mac. i mean, unless getting more work done faster and more efficiently with less crashes just really pisses you off.

anyway, like i said... i'm not trying to change your mind, i just wanna hear your thoughts and i'm all ears. NOT trying to start another PC/MAC war here.. this is strictly for my own informational purposes and not a "flaming" of any kind.

 

[pharrell]

I HONESTLY don't see the difference between mac's and Pc's. This week I have worked on a G5 HD4 rig, and G4 HD2 and a PC 002 rig and they all worked fine.

 

[pharrell]

actually the G5 crashed twice on me. I look at them as a tool..... end of story

 

[James Murphy]

actually the G5 crashed twice on me. I look at them as a tool..... end of story

i said "less crashes".... so i don't understand this reply at all. oh well... \m/

 

[kev]

Novice here, Nuendo 2, sm57s and a 1010lt. Full time uni student doing computing, and i realy couldnt give a damn whether i use a mac or a pc there. Hell, one thing's for sure tho, i damn well hate linux.

 

[chadsxe]

i love to get the actual reasons from people when they make a statement like this.... don't want to change your mind... just want to know your reasons. invariably when i ask this question of a "Mac-hater" there is not much forthcoming in terms of a solid answer, and when they actually have reasons they are usually easily refuted... you know, things like "you can't right-click on them" and other such nonsense.... ooh, don't let me forget my favorite: "you can't GAME on them" . i have seriously never heard a reasonable reply from anyone i have ever asked the question "so why do you DESPISE macs?" i keep waiting for an answer like, "when i was 7 a Mac exploded and burned down my family home, killing all our pets"... now that would be a good reason to DESPISE a Mac. i mean, unless getting more work done faster and more efficiently with less crashes just really pisses you off.

anyway, like i said... i'm not trying to change your mind, i just wanna hear your thoughts and i'm all ears. NOT trying to start another PC/MAC war here.. this is strictly for my own informational purposes and not a "flaming" of any kind.

I use them because they are half as cheap and do what I want just as well as my mac..........

 

[Kazrog]

I use them because they are half as cheap and do what I want just as well as my mac..........

"Half as cheap" as in "twice as expensive?" And I think they are much better at getting viruses than Macs are.

 

[Mulder]

i have seriously never heard a reasonable reply from anyone i have ever asked the question "so why do you DESPISE macs?"

(I'm sure I've told you this before.)

Because on 10.2.8 my G4 MDD with buildin hairdryer crashed several times per workingday running Logic Audio -owned by Jobs- due to Job's obsession with the iMac becoming the lifestyle'item of the elderly in the world, giving priority to developing stuff like iPhoto, iWank and iMovie and forgetting about reparing their badly done OSXtransition of Logic Audio. Enormous HDhog, just add a few plugins and the shiny box became a hairdryer imitating a jetengine. Although I do relaxed AVwork -and my own musicfunstuff- I still need a musicmachine to be something I can trust and be proud of, like my grand piano downstairs. So I build my own PC, picked the right components, overclocked it and haven't bought anything new since then (about 30 months ago). I guess third quarter this year when Vista/Directx10/Conroe hits the stores I'll buy some new stuff, looks very promising.

Still have a gigabit G4 with a Digi 001 and a G3 with some PT3 DSPcards though, never have lost my love for OS9. I'm a macuser since my first IIci btw, running Notator Logic 1.5 and engineering (and surviving) Amsterdamtechnostuff.

 

[chadsxe]

"Half as cheap" as in "twice as expensive?" And I think they are much better at getting viruses than Macs are.

as far as viruses go.....I myself have not had a virus on my computer EVER....you want to know why....becase I am not an IDIOT.......most people (not all) get viruses on the computer because they don't demonstrate common knowledge when on the web.....Hmmmm Porn, weird emails, downloading hack ass software, etc.........

 

[Hammer Bart]

Razorjack what were you thinking starting a thread with 'm' 'a' 'c' and 'p' 'c' in the title???? -Note how I don't pronounce those dirty words-

Thou shall never provide furtile soil for the wicked seed of electric appliance snobbery to grow on :zombie:
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