recording through a mixtreme192 card either using the topaz desk pres or some from a cp600 console, am in the process of building 4 'green pres' then 4 tube pres after that.
for mixing its either in the box or via rme cards into ada8000 boxes to the topaz again, mainly just summing.
as for DAW, theres only one for me!! SAW studio.
as for computer.
main is
athlon 3500
3gb ram
2 x 250gb hd
mixtreme192 card
2 rme 9632 cards
dual head graphic thing
second
athlon 3200
1gb ram
2 x 80gb hd
2 x 320gb hd
mainly just storage
monitors are really bad!!
wharfdale 8.1 pros (if thats the biggest of the two) Active
or
behringers truth B2031A, again active
or dt100 headphones, but as the room has no neighbours those rarely!!
some people get caught up in the quality wars, as somebody who records rather than plays these days i am a bit more subjective. you may think that 192kHz and 24 bit is nessesary, but when you plug that les paul into a marshall stack, belive me you are gonna have to be one of a player to warrant it!!
i have had this arguement with a few guys recently on another forum i visit. to me you need a tuned room, excellent mics, top pres and converters, word clock from god and a player at the top of the game before anything above 44.1 is needed in my prefered genre (punk and metal) or your just wasting time.
ask most guitarists though and they warrant it
Iain