Tonight's the night... heading down to the Golden Nugget here in Las Vegas for the first night of four of the official CD recordings for the Lon Bronson All Star Band.
The original test recording sample has gotten around and seems to have many people excited about the results. You can hear the orignial test sample at
http://www.LonBronson.com
Tonight I'll be using two ProStar laptops running in Master/Slave mode with two RME Hammerfall DSP Digiface cards. I've got two racks built with Behringer ADA8000 units set to give me 40 live mic feeds from the stage split.
I am also using a Behringer rack mixer and headphone distributor to allow me to blend the two Digiface outputs into 4 powered headphone sends for monitoring.
The master RME box will feed word clock to the slave RME box. The Behringers are set to ADAT sync so they lock to the lightpipe signals from the RME boxes.
The two machines are connected directly together with a crossover network cable.
I will be setup in a backstage dressing room with a 48 pair snake from stage. This should be much better than the test situation where I was just sitting in the wings getting blasted by the onstage sound.
I have setup a nice FKey set that does allow me to see all 24 record meters across the screen with no overlap of other windows (screen res is 1680 x 1050 on my master laptop). The record meter windows have also been programmed into the Fkeys to size down to as little as 4 meters while focusing on other mixer views for monitor adjustment purposes. No screens overlap.
My record template is set with the first 24 channels in SAWStudio pointing to the input devices and the record source pointing to the mixer channels. The Pre-patch point has been re-routed to before the Eq and Dyn section on these channels.
This allows me to have a full monitor mix, done in the virtual console, complete with eq, compression, gates, and even post patched plugs without affecting the record signal. I can also freely use the mutes and solos for the monitor mix without affecting the recording.
I am running the latency at 3 x 128, since I am not feeding signals back to the stage for any reason. I am not going lower in latency to try to give the machines a little headroom to make sure there are no glitches along the way.
They are supposed to be doing a 3 camera shoot of the night, and I am also bringing my mini-dv camcorder to capture the backstage SAWStudio rigs in action.
Here's hoping all goes well. Curtain time is 12:00 midnight.
Bob Lentini
Sawstudio developer.
http://www.sawstudio.com
30-10-2004
La Vegas-Nevada