Mx2424

[LongWaveStudio]

anyone got the MX2424 digital rack recorder?

im recording a 60 piece orchestra on monday. we need to get the machines ready tomorrow. we're using 2 Mackie D8b's, 2 MX2424's and we've got some stuff flying off pro tools. ive been trying to assign the remote on the MX to acsess my 2nd unit aswell, but it's not working. anyone know what's wrong or am i gonna have to ring Tascam.??

 

[ametth]

Did you connect the Machines with the TL bus? Do they have different ID's?

On a sidenote: how do you record? Are you using removable drives? Tape mode, or Non-Destructive?

 

[kristian]

wow, that sounds like a pretty big recording gig. thats a lot of damn phase problems waiting int he wings. how are you recording? i main stereo pair and then isolation? or some bizarre crazy ideas of your own?

 

[LongWaveStudio]

just to put it into perspective though kristian, im not a home recordist.
a "pro" if you like. to the earlier poster...i had wired everything up correctly, apparently there was a fault on one of my mx2424's.
i scrapped using the MX2424's and i used two Mackie HRD2496's instead.

the session went well, very well infact.

basically kristian, it worked like this....


drums went onto 10 tracks (recorded on analog, then dumped),

bass , 2 tracks, DI and amp ,

guitars took 8 tracks.

vocals ran onto 5 tracks with harmonies and adlibs.


so that was one mackie 24 track.

then...



had the orchestra in our live room, did stereo micing, and at the same time, we had all the percussion in isolation, and some of the violins. once we did that, we went back and iso'd more violins. stuck two cello's left and right. sounded wonderful. haven't started mixing it though.hehe.

i just finished producing my own band actually. if ive got time, ill chuck an mp3 up on somewhere.

-Romesh
Long Wave Studio

 

[ametth]

Here is a cool tip for live recording on the Tascam:

Ok - so you're recording a live concert and all the sudden your power goes out. So did you loose your entire recording? Yes. Can that be
prevented? Yes!

I'll go through the steps of setting up a special TapeMode session but note that all these steps have to be performed before you record. Recording directly to a TapeMode session does not give you this safety
feature.

Step 1: Determine how long of a session it will be. For this example we will use 1 Hour.

Step 2: Start a new non-destructive session, let's call it LiveRecording.TL

Step 3: Record about 5 seconds of silence, across all 24 tracks, at 01:00:00:00.

Step 4: Record about 5 seconds of silence, across all 24 tracks, at 02:00:00:00.

Step 5: Perform a TapeMode convert on LiveRecording.TL. This will take about 5 or so minutes so do this before the session! The MX will write 0s (silence) in the blank spaces between 01:00:05:00 and 02:00:00:00,
writing out the entire file.

Step 6: After this conversion - load your new project, called LiveRecording_TAPE.tl.

Step 7: You can now go to the beginning of this project and start recording. The project you are recording to is in TapeMode and is
writing data over the existing silence.
Now - if you turn off power in the middle of the recording, everything you recorded up to that time is saved.

Real life scenario: You record a live show in California using the above example. You start recording at 01:00:00:00. At 01:35:00:00, the State of California decides to shut down your power! Well - at least you have 35 minutes of recording (01:00:00:00 to 01:35:00:00) versus nothing at all!

Note: This is not true for Non-Destructive and a newly created TapeMode session. These types of sessions save everything BUT your last recording (if you were in record). If you record and press stop - and then the
power is shut off - your data will all be there.

Another Side Note: Drive manufacturers don't guarantee your data if you don't shut down properly. Unless it's an accident - always unmount before you remove/shut down a drive