A few days ago we were recording some stuff. It's not like it's sometimes portrayed on film/TV with the whole band playing at all at once. It's technically possible to do it that way if you have an enormous budget and an army of technicians but for the most part it's much easier to concentrate on one part at a time. First one records the drums, then the bass, then the rhythm guitars. This then give a nice firm foundation for lead guitars, violins, synths and whatever complicated stuff to be recorded on, and then we put the vocals in.

I recently aquired most of a hand-me-down SLi box for the purposes of playing fallout 3. My old 3GHz P4 and it's nvidia 6800GT were no longer up to the challenge. Fallout 3 is awesome. A bit small compaired to Oblivion perhaps, but without the repetitiveness that made Oblivion feel a bit low at times...