Multi-track Recording for Live Sound
Built to withstand the rigours of life on the road, JoeCo’s award winning BLACKBOX multi-track recorders are the trusted choice of audio professionals working in live sound and touring environments. From major artists capturing their live performances to production companies recording concerts for later resale the JoeCo BLACKBOX is an industry standard. Find out more about our 64 channel Dante and MADI recorders, our balanced 24 channel multi-track recorders for use with your mixing desk, and why they are used to capture the world’s most famous artists, from Brian Wilson to Mumford & Sons and Muse.
Case studies
Recording Sting
A BlackBox BBR64-MADI Recorder was used by award-winning engineer Donal Hodgson to capture Sting’s recent Henley Festival show. Hodgson, who has recorded and mixed Sting for over a decade said: “I have been using Pro Tools in the studio, live on and off stage, but just recently broke free of my comfort zone and decided to try JoeCo’s BBR64-MADI Recorder. Sting has been using a Studer Vista 5 for FOH so I was very confident that the A to D would be good and utilising the BlackBox meant I wouldn’t need to hire a van to carry my usual rig to the show, or upset production by taking up valuable seating space with a couple of big racks. Actually I was surprised how small my recording rig turned out to be. All I needed was a 2U rack – 1U for the BBR and 1U for the Glyph GT062E HD. The BBR64-MADI is surprisingly small considering it records 64 tracks. And, as it has an external PSU it really doesn’t weigh very much. I liked the fact that the PSU has a small locking device and can’t accidentally be knocked or pulled out.
A BLACKBOX BBR64-MADI Recorder was used by award-winning engineer Donal Hodgson to capture Sting’s recent Henley Festival show. Hodgson, who has recorded and mixed Sting for over a decade said: “I have been using Pro Tools in the studio, live on and off stage, but just recently broke free of my comfort zone and decided to try JoeCo’s BBR64-MADI Recorder. Sting has been using a Studer Vista 5 for FOH so I was very confident that the A to D would be good, and utilising the BLACKBOX meant I wouldn’t need to hire a van to carry my usual rig to the show, or upset production by taking up valuable seating space with a couple of big racks. Actually I was surprised how small my recording rig turned out to be. All I needed was a 2U rack – 1U for the BBR and 1U for the Glyph GT062E HD. The BBR64-MADI is surprisingly small considering it records 64 tracks. And, as it has an external PSU it really doesn’t weigh very much. I liked the fact that the PSU has a small locking device and can’t accidentally be knocked or pulled out.
“Connecting the device is simple; we used a fibre connection to the Studer console and a standard USB cable to connect the BBR to the hard drive. My drive was Mac OS formatted, so I used the BBR64-MADI to reformat the drive to FAT32 in a matter of minutes. It was pretty easy to find and then set the clock ref to the MADI input and I was ready to record. All this I did without looking at the manual. I think it says a lot about the thought involved in the design if you can use a piece of gear without going straight to the manual. I could have plugged in a PC keyboard and named all the tracks and song titles in advance after I had imported all the WAV files. I was really impressed with the simplicity and ease of use and I really like the safety features built into the unit, like having to hold the transport keys for a couple of seconds for them to respond. All in all the whole process for recording the show was extremely easy.”
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