My second pc, Tiger, and my third pc, Stoomketel, have been relocated to new locations to serve new purposes.

Tiger is now my main workstation at my appartment about which I allready told a little bit in my previous post and I must say that it’s an excellent workstation. It boots fast and it also loads my programs pretty quickly. It’s only major drawback is that it sucks at gaming. Most graphics cards suffer from a bug in it’s mainboard which prevents graphics card from functioning properly, so now it has a GeForce FX 5200 which is by far not enough to run even a remotely recent game. But that’s not what Tiger is for anyway, it’s supposed to run my office applications decently and it does that very well, so I’m happy with it, for the games I have my Saturn and my NES there.

Previously Tiger was only being used for test purposes for any stuff I didn’t want to do on my main PC Slashdev.

And stoomketel has been relocated to a friend’s house, Dennis’ house to be more precise. There it will be functioning as the sound recording station for our band Knepper and all of it’s side projects.
In it’s current form, Stoomketel is in no way capable of fullfilling the task of recording station as it doesn’t even have a sound card installed and it’s harddrive is sounding like it’s going to blow any minute. So there is still some work to be done to get it working properly and I haven’t yet even mentioned that I allready replaced it’s CPU because that thing died and now it’s suffering from severe overheating even when idle, so I have to find a decent cooling solution and it’s in a need for a complete operating system reinstall.

When Stoomketel is finished there is only 1 part missing from our new recording "studio": a compressor/limiter
A compressor/limiter is used to keep any sound signals that go through it at the same volume level with a configurable margin to reduce the amount of required editing to keep the volume at a constant rate througout a song.