Hello everybody again,

I think it is important to faithfully keep your PC in optimum shape for recording applications. Quite often, we tend to use the PC for everything we do under the sun, and that works most of the time, but when you start getting into serious audio work, then all the other settings and drivers that were loaded into the computer for tons of other programs do get in the way of the audio recording process. Even though I have a pretty capable Athlon 2000, I make sure that I don't do anything else with it other than audio or video work. All the other stuff, such as surfing and document production, I do on another PC. And this might be overkill, but I actually try to close any TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) programs that might still be running in the background. This includes not even connecting the computer to the Internet, to save on processor cycles. This generally results in seamless audio work. Now if I could only improve on my own mixing skills.........!