# Using my PC as a recording studio - what do I need? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2000, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113 "2000-12-05T08:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/41 "2000-12-11T07:16:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*BTW, just because the search feature can’t find the thread where you implied that your Brazillian worm farmer uncle may sell earthworm meat to McDonalds doesn’t mean it isn’t archived somewhere… \*\* ??? I’m not Smartt! Are you all insane? ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/42 "2000-12-11T07:35:01Z")
The mods seem to believe so, and they have access to your IP address. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/43 "2000-12-11T08:13:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*The mods seem to believe so, and they have access to your IP address. \*\* And since when an IP adress is fixed? Not mine, for sure. I am not Smart. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/44 "2000-12-11T08:59:31Z")
What’s your IP address then? ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/45 "2000-12-11T09:49:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*What’s your IP address then? \*\* Depends. Right now it’s 200.190.184.159. But it changes everytime I log on, cause it’s a dial-up, free internet service. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/46 "2000-12-11T10:04:40Z")
Couple of possibilities - it could be that your dialup number only has a limited number of IPs it assigns, and your IPs were always within the same, limited range, and they figured the odds were that when one poster quit posting with IPs in that range and another showed up in the same range that it was the same person. Or maybe the cookies these forums leave on your computer can be used to identify you. There is another possibility, but I don’t know enough about it to elaborate on it. If you really aren’t smartt, I’d appeal to the moderators to make some kind of statement to that effect. Smartt posted some really stupid stuff and was probably a bald-faced liar, I definitely wouldn’t want people to think I was him. Even if he wasn’t such an unlikable poster, it looks bad when a person gives up on one name and comes back with a new one, pretending to be new. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/47 "2000-12-11T10:12:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > **Or maybe the cookies these forums leave on your computer can be used to identify you.** How so? I erase all the cookies after disconnecting. That’s why I have to re-type my username and password. I don’t trust cookies, and I only have em enables cause I buy stuff online. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/48 "2000-12-11T10:15:38Z")
Well, then ask them why they thought you were smartt. I’m sure they’d tell. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/49 "2000-12-11T10:18:27Z")
I don’t care. I don’t even know who this Smart person is. I am me. It is not I who am crazy, it is I who am mad. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/50 "2000-12-11T15:53:24Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Uniball \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I am not Smart. \*\* You said it. Not me. 🙂 j/k. Couldn’t resist ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-my-pc-as-a-recording-studio-what-do-i-need/44113/51 "2000-12-11T19:57:54Z")
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