PC Music

[Nick_Black]

hey, I thought I'd just post my Idea here (I'm too broke to start building it right now....)

Theme:Music

Main purpose: Recording

Sub. purposes: Show-off and some light gaming

Mod Idea's:
Paint motherboard Black, dry brush on silver, and paint on a les Paul with a white glow around it (the les pau'ls "burst" will be floresn't)

Note: if it does end up getting 2 hot, I'll just make it water proof and pump water over it.... maby... :p

Window (Can't deside on a shape yet, I thi'nk I'll go for a strat body) with My logo eched in it:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8615/hellscastlestudiosfg9.jpg

all the conectors will ither be replaced by !/4" jacks or CLR looking jacks, and all wires will be put thrue black sleeves to make it look like cableing.

the front of the case will look like an amp, with the Liquid cooling as the controll panel, and the DVD RW drive will be stealthed with mech to mach the rest too look like the peaker mesh.

inside will have LED's looking like stage lights (I'll get them too flash too.. maby) and have one to "spot light" (have a tube around it so it focuses on one spot) shining on the window where my logo is eched.

case is going to be insulated for sound.

I'm going to install a mufeller on the cooling fan's if need be.

I don't know how I'm gona make the liguid cooling stuff look, I've been thinking making it look like copper plumbing, cuz I've been to a few venue's where the plumbing was sticking out in places.

actual specs (rough)

AMD dual core (don't know what speed yet...)

a cheep PCI express vid card.

19" or 17" wide screen LCD

2-4 gigs of RAM

2x Delta 1010lt for sound (I might build a box for the out put cables to keep them neet)

ither RAID Hdd's or SCSI HDD... prob round 100-500 gigs total... depending what I can afford...


and yeah, thats my plan so far. what do you think?

[SgtM]

I like it dude. What instruments do you play?

[Nick_Black]

Thanks, I primaraly play guitar, but also sing, play keyboard, bass, Harmonica, french horn, flute, and most percussion (drums, bells, xylophone ect.)

also further plans for the comp include: painting hendrix on the seide with the window, and jack white on top.

Edit: I might put some pics up soon, when I find the time to draw them up.

[CanaBalistic]

Your idea for painting the mobo is flawed. You might be able to paint it but silver is a conductor. If anything, use non-conductive silver colored paint. A conductor in any form (dry brushed silver) will short out the terminals.

I also noticed you want a huge amount of ram and a cheap vid card. For seamless music, you need only 512mb on a rig running XP. If you plan on getting a soundcard for this setup, the ram is even less important. I'd sugest getting 2x1Gb modules so you'll have room to expand in the future if need be. Spend that extra cash on a better sound card, processor, or video card.

A muffler for the fans can be made by recessing them a few inches with a piece of abs/pvc pipe.

Sound proofing shouldnt be high on your priority list if you plan to have a water cooling setup.

Get to getting, pilgrim! :)

[Luke122]

I also noticed you want a huge amount of ram and a cheap vid card. For seamless music, you need only 512mb on a rig running XP. If you plan on getting a soundcard for this setup, the ram is even less important. I'd sugest getting 2x1Gb modules so you'll have room to expand in the future if need be. Spend that extra cash on a better sound card, processor, or video card.


He's talking about recording music, possibly multiple tracks simultaneously. 512mb ram wont be enough for that.. I had trouble recording 2 tracks at once with my M-Audio Mobile Pre USB with 512mb ram, into Ntrack studio. 1gb was the answer for me. :)

[CanaBalistic]

Ahh, i had only skimed through his post. I missed that sentence alltogether. :)

Well, on my behalf, i had recomended 2gb of ram. I suppose the term "the more, the better" comes into effect when recording audio.

Touche, lukifer, touche...

[Nick_Black]

thank you Lukifer122 for awnswering 4 me, as for a better sound card, I already have the delta 1010lt, I could upgrade to an delta1010 (not light) but wouldn't do me much good (same input quality, just some extra features)

and I'm planning to test for conductivity before I use any pain. thanks for the word of coution

more plans: If I end up using raid I'm planning to pain the cable's white, add 5 lines, and write out the notes to a song (havent dicided which one yet though..)

thanks for the reply's :D:D

[SgtM]

The build sounds pretty cool. I've been playing music myself for about 20 years. (various wind instruments). I've been toying around with guitar for a while, but don't pick it up as often as I would like. I'll be watching this one, good luck with the build.

[Nick_Black]

thanks for the suport, I'll pribably start when I get my next paycheck (or when My friend pay's me back the 100 dollars or so he borrowd from me for WoW..)

though when I start this thread will be continued in the work log section.

[Nick_Black]

still waiting for the $160 of WoW money 2 of my friends owe me... oh well

more Idiea's:

I want the computer to be as quite as I can make it, and still be cool (looking, and temp) so this is my Idea for the air intake on the front
(blue is sound obsorption matirial, green is metal/plastic)
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7527/fancutawaysideeq4.png
(this is a cutaway view)

I was thinking making the front look like an solid state combo amp,
the air intake is supoto look like the mid-range, and I'll probably glue on a little dome to look like a tweeter and the whole thing (including the floppy drive) is going to be coverd in a mesh,
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6588/casefrontxl4.png

I know the intke won't kill even close to all the frequencies (only the verry high one's) but it will do something (I hope...)

[Nagoshi]

Instead of painting your motherboard silver, have you thought about masking it with some plexiglass or plastic? Then cut a hole for the northbridge, CPU, RAM, PCI slots, video card, and all the cables needed, and you're set.

[Nick_Black]

Instead of painting your motherboard silver, have you thought about masking it with some plexiglass or plastic? Then cut a hole for the northbridge, CPU, RAM, PCI slots, video card, and all the cables needed, and you're set.

Hmm, that's not a bad Idea, no I haven't thought of it (though I'm not painting the Mobo silver, it's gonna be black, but the things that stick out, like caps, chip, resistors, ect, will be silver,)

I'll look into it, it might spare me a mobo...

Thanks!

Edit: oh, and I got bored, check out PC music (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=637533) (no, it didn't take me long, as you can probably tell :p

WHOA! nvm, something happend while I exported... I think the sample rate was off (it's playing WAY to fast..)

Edit2: ok... only the Hi-Fi version is fast... not the low-fi.. I'll re-upload it later..

[Nick_Black]

oh, and could one of the admin move this thread to the "works in progress" becouse I'm starting to build this now... or should I just start a new thread there?

(I'll have picture's later)