| Thinking of making a mobile rig... need suggestions [message #78945] |
Wed, 24 January 2007 17:11  |
Paul Braun
Messages: 391
Registered: September 2005
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I may be taking a long break from the theatre (certain people down
there are sucking all the fun out of it....) and expanding our
acoustic concert series into other venues.
Obviously, my second Paris rig won't be staying up in the treehouse
where it's been living for the past 5 years or so.
I'd like to make it into a mobile rig that would fit into no more than
two rack cases - cpu, MEC, two lcd's, keyboard & mouse.
Problem is, I'm a Mac guy. I've been looking on *bay for the Marathon
G-rack to rackmount a G4, but since they're discontinued, they are now
stupid money. Really stupid.
Hacking the motherboard into a rackmount ATX case is a huge PITA.
I suppose I could just lay it on its side on a rack shelf and make
straps to tie it down.
Or, I could use the rack case I already have, throw an AMD board and
Athlon chip, and run the mobile rig on XP or 98, then mix at home on
the Mac here.
As long as I use fat32 on my firewire drives, do you see any problems
doing that?
I have had such good luck with the Macs - typically, I'm tracking 8 or
more tracks for 2 hours straight during a concert and nary a hiccup.
Or does someone have an unused G-rack lying around that they'd be
willing to sell to me for significantly less than stupid, just because
I'm a really nice guy?
If I had access to one, a friend of mine owns a machine shop and could
whip something up, but he's never seen one.
Thanks.
pab
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