All of my freelance work thus far has in-studio and limited low-channel field stuff.
I'm planning for a gig that involves recording a 4 hour concert, but there are a few details which I haven't been able to nail down. I decided to plan for the worst, in case those details don't get nailed down until the day of. I really want to nail down the make/model of the board, and also the number of channels planned.
Situation: record a concert - 4 instrumentalists.
Plan: Put together a larger channel count for my mobile rig, grab direct feed from FOH
Problem: Not sure what the deal is with the FOH board.
My solution thus far: Put together a rack with a power conditioner, Midas XL48 feeding ADAT to my RME UCX, clock the midas with the RME. 25' XLR female to DB25 snake for board feed to the midas, 20' XLR Male to TRS snake just in case I can't grab XLR from the board. 50' extension cord for the power. Word clock and ADAT cables arrive shortly.
This gives 10 microphone inputs (8 on the preamp and 2 on the interface) plus I have two more channels of external preamplifiers on standby to feed the analog inputs (12 total preamps, 4 additional line inputs and one SPDIF pair)
Headphones to monitor, RME totalmix to check levels. Also have a host of microphones to capture audience however sounds good - stereo pair of any kind or single omni.
Laptop up and ready to go, recording direct to an external USB 3.0 SSD through RME GlobalRecord, recording simultaneously to internal 7200 RPM spinner with Reaper.
One More Problem: Single point of failure. If the laptop crashes or the interface disconnects, I lose time. My RME interface does not have the direct-to-USB recording on the front.
Testing Against One More Problem: Will do a dry run, recording 8 hours straight of CD playback i my living room with various microphones hooked up, then check the results for discontinuities.
Is there anything I'm forgetting? I feel like I'm underplanning, but at the same time I might be running too hot on the stress-o-meter.
I'm planning for a gig that involves recording a 4 hour concert, but there are a few details which I haven't been able to nail down. I decided to plan for the worst, in case those details don't get nailed down until the day of. I really want to nail down the make/model of the board, and also the number of channels planned.
Situation: record a concert - 4 instrumentalists.
Plan: Put together a larger channel count for my mobile rig, grab direct feed from FOH
Problem: Not sure what the deal is with the FOH board.
My solution thus far: Put together a rack with a power conditioner, Midas XL48 feeding ADAT to my RME UCX, clock the midas with the RME. 25' XLR female to DB25 snake for board feed to the midas, 20' XLR Male to TRS snake just in case I can't grab XLR from the board. 50' extension cord for the power. Word clock and ADAT cables arrive shortly.
This gives 10 microphone inputs (8 on the preamp and 2 on the interface) plus I have two more channels of external preamplifiers on standby to feed the analog inputs (12 total preamps, 4 additional line inputs and one SPDIF pair)
Headphones to monitor, RME totalmix to check levels. Also have a host of microphones to capture audience however sounds good - stereo pair of any kind or single omni.
Laptop up and ready to go, recording direct to an external USB 3.0 SSD through RME GlobalRecord, recording simultaneously to internal 7200 RPM spinner with Reaper.
One More Problem: Single point of failure. If the laptop crashes or the interface disconnects, I lose time. My RME interface does not have the direct-to-USB recording on the front.
Testing Against One More Problem: Will do a dry run, recording 8 hours straight of CD playback i my living room with various microphones hooked up, then check the results for discontinuities.
Is there anything I'm forgetting? I feel like I'm underplanning, but at the same time I might be running too hot on the stress-o-meter.
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