mobile recording dilemma

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Hi,

After a long career in recording, I've 'retired' to play in two bands,
a trio and a quartet, both of which are acoustic, with the exception
that I play an electric bass in the quartet. Both bands enjoy to play
live and have great live shows, and we'd like to capture these,
multitracked.

(Samples of both bands can be heard at the addr's below my signature.)

I've been doing research into using the smallest hardware we can, and
in the PA realm we're not doing badly with that, tho we might be able
to do better. Only one guitar and the bass go direct, so we use a
Mackie 1604vlz Pro for mic inputs (the quartet used to be a sextet...),
with Mackie 450 powered speakers and a Galaxy HotSpot monitor system.

I have and have used ProTools/Mac rigs since the early '90's, and we've
used my studio and another PT/Mac studio to make our CDs thus far. I
like using PT, so the first thought was to use an 002 rack and a Mac
laptop, and feed the 002 from the direct outs from the 1604. This adds
two boxes to carry and about $2k to the inventory.

It was recently suggested to me that I could replace the 1604 with a
Mackie Onyx 1620/40 and use the FireWire out to a Mac Laptop. The Onyx
is a bit smaller than the 1604, and without the 002 rack box, that's
one less box.

Since PT won't 'see' the Onyx, I'll have to use some other sofware for
tracking and then move the track to my main PT system. I'm concerned
about how tracks made in GarageBand2, Logic, etc., will move over to
PT.

Clearly there are some 'givens' here... I'm happy working in PT on
Macs, so I assume that to be the final destination of the live tracks
will be my main PT/Mac system. I also intend that we would record the
live shows very simply, without effects, no compression nor limiting
and if anything, only a bit of EQ to the recorder. Any changes would
be made later in the studio.

So the questions are:

1) Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA and digital
multitrack recording functions?

2) How well do tracks made in Garageband2, Logic, etc., move over to
PT?

3) Do you multitrack live in venues now, and what recording hardware
and software do you like to use?

Many thanks,

stv

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I used to do mobile recording for a living. If I were doing it today, I
would probably use a PC running Cubase SL (the cheapest version of
Cubendo) with a 24-channel Lightpipe card, connected to a Yamaha O1v96
which would provide mic pre's, A/D conversion, and the ability to
monitor the signal coming back from the computer (for verification). If
I wanted great fidelity I might also have an 8-channel mic pre and
8-channel A/D in a rack, for the most important tracks.

Pretty much any DAW software that records WAV files will transfer just
fine into Pro Tools. Some DAW's even timestamp the files, but that
won't be a concern for you since they will all be contiguous.

 

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There are some cheapo ways to go. I don't see anything but this post so
if I don't hit the mark, don't hit me

There are several little dinky mixers that convert a/d/a and are as
simple as caca. The USB-842 (think that is the name) from Tascam 8
track mixer, 4 track A/D/A, + stereo master. I think it has some
other input but I haven't even looked at it in about 3 years. It can be
used as a live mixer and converts 4 tracks to digital. I have used it
with a REEEEEALY old Mac G3 wallstreet laptop and Cubase 5.something
and it worked, not great, but it worked. I used it to record a demo
where the drummer had a midi kit so the MIDI inputs came in handy
too... yes I think there are 2 midi ins.

Anyway, depending on how low you want to go, that sort of dookicky
might fit your needs.

Danny Taddei

 

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In article <1119391887.621759.255590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> TarBabyTunes@gmail.com writes:

> After a long career in recording, I've 'retired' to play in two bands,
> a trio and a quartet, both of which are acoustic, with the exception
> that I play an electric bass in the quartet. Both bands enjoy to play
> live and have great live shows, and we'd like to capture these,
> multitracked.

> It was recently suggested to me that I could replace the 1604 with a
> Mackie Onyx 1620/40 and use the FireWire out to a Mac Laptop.

> Since PT won't 'see' the Onyx, I'll have to use some other sofware for
> tracking and then move the track to my main PT system. I'm concerned
> about how tracks made in GarageBand2, Logic, etc., will move over to
> PT.

> I also intend that we would record the
> live shows very simply, without effects, no compression nor limiting
> and if anything, only a bit of EQ to the recorder. Any changes would
> be made later in the studio.

This is exactly what the Onyx Firewire option does best. It sends the
mic preamps (or line inputs) to an A/D converter, and spits that out
the Firewire interface. No EQ, no inserts, no nuttin'. To the
computer, it looks like a sound card with 8 stereo inputs, (usable as
16 mono inputs) with the mics connected to the inputs. As a bonus, you
can also record the stereo mix.

The Onyx Firewire option comes bundled with Mackie's program
Tracktion, but you can use it with any software that recognizes ASIO
or WDM drivers. Most programs record WAV or AIFF files directly, or
(as Tracktion does) allows you to export your recordings in those
formats. Since you'll be starting and stopping your recording on all
tracks simultaneously, you don't need to go to any special pains to
line up tracks when importing the audio files you recorded on the gig
into ProTools.

> 1) Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA and digital
> multitrack recording functions?

Not that I can think of. You can of course get the same functionality
by connecting a multi-input sound card to direct outputs of your
mixer, but the Onyx is a good one-box solution for this application.

> 2) How well do tracks made in Garageband2, Logic, etc., move over to
> PT?

I don't know about Garageband, but what you get free with the Onyx
will get you there, and you have a lot of options.

> 3) Do you multitrack live in venues now, and what recording hardware
> and software do you like to use?

Me, I use a Mackie hard disk recorder. I don't trust computers.
However, I did use an Onyx/Firewire setup on a non-critical project
and it worked without a hitch. My laptop computer is pretty feeble and
I only used it to record 4 tracks. Your mileage will probably be
considerably better.

One thing that you need to understand about the Onyx/Firewire setup is
that as far as recording goes, it's a multi-channel input device only.
It's not a multi-channel output device. You do get a stereo output
that goes to the monitor section of the mixer (equivalent to the "tape
In" jacks on your present Mackie mixer) but you don't get 16 returns
from the computer back into the mixer so you can use the nice Onyx EQ
and the real knobs for mixing. The assumption is that once you've
recorded the raw tracks, you'll do all your processing and mixing in
the computer.



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stv wrote:

> So the questions are:

> 1) Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA
and digital
> multitrack recording functions?

Two possibilities come immediately to mind - Yamaha 01V96
and Behringer DDX 3216. Both offer ADAT digital connections
into multitrack digital computer audio interfaces such as
those from MOTU and Frontier.

> 2) How well do tracks made in Garageband2, Logic, etc.,
move over to
> PT?

If you want to do multitrack recording with similar
functionality but lower cost, consider alternative software
such as Adobe Audition for example.

> 3) Do you multitrack live in venues now, and what
recording hardware
> and software do you like to use?

I do a 20 track recording every Sunday morning off of the
inserts of a live console. My current configuration is a
Mackie SR32 console with several M-Audio Delta-series (1010,
1010LT, and 66) audio interfaces running into a Athlon-2000
Windows XP desktop running Audition/CE.

This is a highly-seasoned configuration whose major weakness
is the Mackie SR32 console, bad ribbon cables and all. The
recording function runs like a clock. Since the console's
insert points bypass most of the weirdness in the console,
it works well even when bad things are happening to the live
sound due to the console's bad ribbon cables, etc.

I use the multitrack recordings to diagnose just about
anything strange that happens to the live sound side of the
operation. For example, for the last two Sundays we've been
plagued with a mystery highly intermittant feedback problem
that only seemed to happen during services, not rehearsals
or tests. From the multitrack recordings I knew which mics
were involved and the precise frequencies at which the
feedback was happening (6 KHz). A quick technical survey of
the system revealed that person or persons unknown had
pushed the 6 KHz sliders on two of the monitor eqs (on the
platform) up by about 8 dB.

I am in the process of implementing a Yamaha 02R96-based
live sound/recording system. In the short term I plan to go
to 24 or 28 channels by adding another Delta 1010LT
interface running off of various analog outputs of the 02R96
and attached ADA8000 ADAT-interface expansion units. Long
term, I'm planning to using the ADAT inputs of MOTU 824(s)
to eliminate the conversion back to analog and then back to
digital.

 

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Arny Krueger wrote:
> stv wrote:
>
>> Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA
>> and digital multitrack recording functions?
>
> Two possibilities come immediately to mind - Yamaha 01V96
> and Behringer DDX 3216. Both offer ADAT digital connections
> into multitrack digital computer audio interfaces such as
> those from MOTU and Frontier.

This would definitely work, but I'm not sure it would meet the
smaller/simpler requirement. It would likely be more expensive as well.

 

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stv wrote:
>
> Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA and digital
> multitrack recording functions?

The Onyx 1220 should meet your current needs, but it has one less
sweepable mid and fewer aux sends so I'd stick with the 1620.

BTW, the direct ins on the Onyx are surprisingly good.

 

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Kurt Albershardt wrote:

> Arny Krueger wrote:
>> stv wrote:
>>
>>> Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA
>>> and digital multitrack recording functions?
>>
>> Two possibilities come immediately to mind - Yamaha 01V96
>> and Behringer DDX 3216. Both offer ADAT digital
connections
>> into multitrack digital computer audio interfaces such as
>> those from MOTU and Frontier.

> This would definitely work, but I'm not sure it would meet
the
> smaller/simpler requirement. It would likely be more
expensive as
> well.

The DDX 3216 is running under $600 with ADAT interface.
This is almost a believe-it-or-not price.

Older tech MOTU ADAT interfaces (OK, since the newer models
differ mainly in terms of upgraded analog sections which
would not be used) run about $250 on eBay.

My recollection is that the Mackie Onyx 1620/40 pricing
doesn't look nearly as attractive once you add the price of
the Firewire interface.

 

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Hey Mike,

Sounds ideal. I had missed that some sort of recording s/w came with
the Onyx. It did say on the Mackie website that it would work with
various stuff, and I have G-band in the Mac already.

<<One thing that you need to understand about the Onyx/Firewire setup
is
that as far as recording goes, it's a multi-channel input device only.
It's not a multi-channel output device. You do get a stereo output
that goes to the monitor section of the mixer (equivalent to the "tape
In" jacks on your present Mackie mixer) but you don't get 16 returns
from the computer back into the mixer so you can use the nice Onyx EQ
and the real knobs for mixing. The assumption is that once you've
recorded the raw tracks, you'll do all your processing and mixing in
the computer. >>

Yeah, that's cool. I could wish for access to EQ on the way down the
FireWire, but ... that's ok.

I was just looking at the Presonus Firepod, which is a pretty close
alternative, pretty close in price, and it adds one small 1U box to my
current setup, as opposed to replacing my 1604...

Any thoughts on the FirePod box...?

Many thanks, Mike,

stv

 

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Thanks to all!

Some limitations in general in reply: I really don't want to learn
Windows, sorry. <GG> It's tough enough to learn new multitrack s/w.
I had to do a location job one time with that stuff that came with the
MOTU 828 MkI, and it drove me nuts. Clearly, I'm an old dog.

(I'm beginning to sound really negative here....) Similarly, I have
worked on the Yamaha digital consoles, and while they aren't arcane, I
wouldn't really be comfortable with them 'on the fly'.

The way I look at the price of the Onyx (the 1620 has the mic pre's I
need), it seems to run up to $800 on the street, and I can cover a good
deal of that with the sale of the 1604vlz Pro that I'm using now. The
FireWire is $125 list, and I've seen dealers offer a nice price with
the card kicked in, so I'm not too scared by the numbers.

Again, the PreSonus FirePod seems a pretty close alternative, and it
would allow me to do some functional EQ in the 1604 before the FW
send...

Wow, Arny! All that church work sounds pretty cool, being able to
analyze the live tracks each week... I've had varying levels of
success with Mackies, but the 1604vlz Pro has been really dependable
for me.

Many thanks to all for your good and thoughtful responses!

stv

 

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stv wrote:
>
> I was just looking at the Presonus Firepod, which is a pretty close
> alternative, pretty close in price, and it adds one small 1U box to my
> current setup

And a bunch of interconnecting cables. More flexibility but also more
complexity. KISS is important in live work.




> Any thoughts on the FirePod box...?

Never used one. Don't recall anyone raving about them -- or raging at them.

 

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stv wrote:
>
> The FireWire is $125 list

$399 MAP for the FireWire option card.

 

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In article <TeWdnY2K5sB8MCTfRVn-qA@comcast.com> arnyk@hotpop.com writes:

> The DDX 3216 is running under $600 with ADAT interface.
> This is almost a believe-it-or-not price.

What? Fifty bucks cheaper than last week? What's going on?

> My recollection is that the Mackie Onyx 1620/40 pricing
> doesn't look nearly as attractive once you add the price of
> the Firewire interface.

I suspect that's true, and will continue to be true for a while, maybe
even forever. The way it went with the Mackie HDRs and digital
consoles (which shared the same I/O cards) was that the recorders and
consoles, both of which have been discontinued, were discounted pretty
fairly almost from the start, but the I/O cards were pretty much sold
at MSRP across the board, even today. I just took a look at the
Sweetwater web page as a benchmark, and the ADAT Optical I/O
card, which is the only one that's still available, is selling for
$89.97, a whopping $9.03 discount. That saving won't hardly buy lunch.
They want $400 for the $500 MSRP Onyx Firewire card, a bit closer to a
typical discount, but with MSRPs being what they are today, nobody
(visibly) discounts as heavily as they used to.





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In article <1119483223.316717.160760@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> TarBabyTunes@gmail.com writes:

> Yeah, that's cool. I could wish for access to EQ on the way down the
> [Onyx] FireWire, but ... that's ok.

The thing that Mackie had in mind when they designed it that way was
that when you're mixing for the house PA, you probalby will want
different EQ on the inputs than if you were mixing in a more
controlled environment, for recording. So unless the EQ is to correct
a deficiency in the mic or its position, you're better off not
applying the house EQ to your recording. It does make it a bit less
useful to use as a studio mixer (where it's perfectly reasonable to EQ
what's going to the track if you're confident of the sound), but,
since it lacks multi-channel returns, the Onyx Firewire already not a
really good choice if your first priority is as a studio mixer.

> I was just looking at the Presonus Firepod, which is a pretty close
> alternative, pretty close in price, and it adds one small 1U box to my
> current setup, as opposed to replacing my 1604...

It won't help you to mix live PA, but I'm sure it's a decent
interface.

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In article <1119484010.872415.113120@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> TarBabyTunes@gmail.com writes:

> The way I look at the price of the Onyx (the 1620 has the mic pre's I
> need), it seems to run up to $800 on the street

> The
> FireWire is $125 list, and I've seen dealers offer a nice price with
> the card kicked in, so I'm not too scared by the numbers.

You've found either some good deals or a mistake. The Onyx Firewire
card lists for $500, and Sweetwater (typical dealer price) sells it
for $400.


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> 2) How well do tracks made in Garageband2, Logic, etc., move over to
> PT?

The other issues seem to be handled well, so I'll field this one. Often PT
rejects the file headers put on by other software or HDR's, and sometimes
even accepts them at first, but when the session is reloaded the files turn
to static. The best way to deal with this is to copy the files using a file
converter, even if you're not actually changing formats. This will write
the files with non-proprietary headers, and PT has nothing to complain
about. The originals still act as back-ups, provided they are "converted"
again if needed. Not sure what software to use in OS X, I used SoundApp in
Classic and use Sonic Foundry's Batch Converter in XP.

 

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would I be correct in surmising from this thread that:

If I recorded multiple tracks from the Onyx, and ultimately wanted to
upgrade from Traction to PT (or bring my raw data on a firewire hard
drive to a studio using PT, I would be able to edit/mix by importing
those raw tracks to PT??

Mike...?? Please consider copying the repl to
bohemianIHATESPAMatsnowcrest.netOn 21 Jun 2005 20:57:52 -0400,
mrivers@d-and-d.com (Mike Rivers) wrote:

>
>In article <1119391887.621759.255590@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> TarBabyTunes@gmail.com writes:
>
>> After a long career in recording, I've 'retired' to play in two bands,
>> a trio and a quartet, both of which are acoustic, with the exception
>> that I play an electric bass in the quartet. Both bands enjoy to play
>> live and have great live shows, and we'd like to capture these,
>> multitracked.
>
>> It was recently suggested to me that I could replace the 1604 with a
>> Mackie Onyx 1620/40 and use the FireWire out to a Mac Laptop.
>
>> Since PT won't 'see' the Onyx, I'll have to use some other sofware for
>> tracking and then move the track to my main PT system. I'm concerned
>> about how tracks made in GarageBand2, Logic, etc., will move over to
>> PT.
>
>> I also intend that we would record the
>> live shows very simply, without effects, no compression nor limiting
>> and if anything, only a bit of EQ to the recorder. Any changes would
>> be made later in the studio.
>
>This is exactly what the Onyx Firewire option does best. It sends the
>mic preamps (or line inputs) to an A/D converter, and spits that out
>the Firewire interface. No EQ, no inserts, no nuttin'. To the
>computer, it looks like a sound card with 8 stereo inputs, (usable as
>16 mono inputs) with the mics connected to the inputs. As a bonus, you
>can also record the stereo mix.
>
>The Onyx Firewire option comes bundled with Mackie's program
>Tracktion, but you can use it with any software that recognizes ASIO
>or WDM drivers. Most programs record WAV or AIFF files directly, or
>(as Tracktion does) allows you to export your recordings in those
>formats. Since you'll be starting and stopping your recording on all
>tracks simultaneously, you don't need to go to any special pains to
>line up tracks when importing the audio files you recorded on the gig
>into ProTools.
>
>> 1) Are there simpler/smaller systems that will double PA and digital
>> multitrack recording functions?
>
>Not that I can think of. You can of course get the same functionality
>by connecting a multi-input sound card to direct outputs of your
>mixer, but the Onyx is a good one-box solution for this application.
>
>> 2) How well do tracks made in Garageband2, Logic, etc., move over to
>> PT?
>
>I don't know about Garageband, but what you get free with the Onyx
>will get you there, and you have a lot of options.
>
>> 3) Do you multitrack live in venues now, and what recording hardware
>> and software do you like to use?
>
>Me, I use a Mackie hard disk recorder. I don't trust computers.
>However, I did use an Onyx/Firewire setup on a non-critical project
>and it worked without a hitch. My laptop computer is pretty feeble and
>I only used it to record 4 tracks. Your mileage will probably be
>considerably better.
>
>One thing that you need to understand about the Onyx/Firewire setup is
>that as far as recording goes, it's a multi-channel input device only.
>It's not a multi-channel output device. You do get a stereo output
>that goes to the monitor section of the mixer (equivalent to the "tape
>In" jacks on your present Mackie mixer) but you don't get 16 returns
>from the computer back into the mixer so you can use the nice Onyx EQ
>and the real knobs for mixing. The assumption is that once you've
>recorded the raw tracks, you'll do all your processing and mixing in
>the computer.

 

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In article <n38ad1hrsnop3or70fs11h2hd8343p00lj@4ax.com> alias@snowcrest.net writes:

> would I be correct in surmising from this thread that:
>
> If I recorded multiple tracks from the Onyx, and ultimately wanted to
> upgrade from Traction to PT (or bring my raw data on a firewire hard
> drive to a studio using PT, I would be able to edit/mix by importing
> those raw tracks to PT??

Data is data. You can make it easy to import the data by rendering the
tracks first. If you don't, you can still import data, but you may
find that you have a mass of confusion that will be difficult to sort
out.

> Mike...?? Please consider copying the repl to
> bohemianIHATESPAMatsnowcrest.net

Why reply to an address that I'll have to edit or decode? I make too
many mistakes to do that reliably.



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> > would I be correct in surmising from this thread that:
> >
> > If I recorded multiple tracks from the Onyx, and ultimately wanted to
> > upgrade from Traction to PT (or bring my raw data on a firewire hard
> > drive to a studio using PT, I would be able to edit/mix by importing
> > those raw tracks to PT??
>
> Data is data. You can make it easy to import the data by rendering the
> tracks first. If you don't, you can still import data, but you may
> find that you have a mass of confusion that will be difficult to sort
> out.

Mike suggests rendering the individual tracks to individual files, which can
be a real bitch, but what really matters is that the Traktion files might
have a proprietary header (code at the beginning to denote the file
parameters) which PT might not accept. I've had to deal with this before,
sometimes PT even accepts files from another editor then alters the headers
when the session is saved, and then they can't be played with anything, even
PT.

The solution is to use a file converter program to copy the files (even if
you're not changing the file type), and they should be backed up anyway.
The file converter writes a generic header that PT can use fine, but doesn't
alter the data in any way, and is as fast as copying the files. I always
use a converter to copy files off CD's and DVD's from other editors for PT.
On PC Sonic Foundry's Batch Converter works for me, I use Peak's batch
converter function on Macs, but there might be a better task-specific app
out there.

Data is data, but headers vary. Damn I miss resource forks...

 

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In article <oQHDe.3283$YG.277@read1.cgocable.net> no@no.no writes:

> Mike suggests rendering the individual tracks to individual files, which can
> be a real bitch

Good design calls for this to be essentially a pushbutton function.
That function resides in Tracktion but I haven't tried it. Well,
actually, I tried to try it but it was a bit obtuse (not exactly what
I'd call a "real bitch") and I didn't stick with it. But others seem
to be able to do it with no problem. "Render" is Mackie's hard disk
recorder term for the function. In ProTools, it's "consolidate."

> but what really matters is that the Traktion files might
> have a proprietary header (code at the beginning to denote the file
> parameters) which PT might not accept.

They're supposed to be plain vanilla broadcast wave files.

> The solution is to use a file converter program to copy the files (even if
> you're not changing the file type), and they should be backed up anyway.
> The file converter writes a generic header that PT can use fine, but doesn't
> alter the data in any way, and is as fast as copying the files. I always
> use a converter to copy files off CD's and DVD's from other editors for PT.

So you're suggesting that a Tracktion owner buy a copy of Sound Forge
to use its file converter? Which software dealer do you work for? What
ever happened to good ol' experimentation? Why are you telling us what
might be wrong before you know anything really is wrong?

The AES has hammered out a recommended standard for audio file
interchange, and basically it's plain vanilla broadcast wave files.
Believe it or not, it's to the benefit of software vendors to comply
with industry standards when possible. While they may use their own
internal format and headers, it would behoove them, when doing any
"file export" operation, to generate files in a standard
interchangable format. Many are coming around to that. Give 'em the
benefit of the doubt until you know that there's a problem.

> Data is data, but headers vary. Damn I miss resource forks...

The bane of PC users in the past. I didn't know they were gone, but
good riddance. If a user doesn't know what program to use to open a
file, he shouldn't be messing with it.





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