Hey all, So I am into birthday season... my project studio platform for the foreseeable future is a dell 8600 with an 2.0 GHz pentiun m and 512 MB Ram-- sound card is ac'97 using the snd-inte8x0 driver. I know I need a desktop but... Surprisingly this little beast does pretty well- for now at least. As the next step in building the project studio I am thinking about getting either an-- ART pro-channel mic-preamp with some Wharfedale diamond 8.2 Active Monitors OR some kind of outboard recording hardware that comes in fire-wire or usb to the laptop... definitely with preamps and good signal isolation. Digital/MIDI etc. would all be good too. Does anyone have some advice on firewire/usb hardware for linux? Can anyone estimate which route--.. preamp plus ac'97 card or the outboard hardware would make my electric bass/guitar and acoustic guitar tracks sound best right now? Does anyone know about those wharfedale active studio montitors? I would appreciate it
