How do live rock shows get recorded

adclark · 19th September 2005

It seems every rock band records all their shows onto a multitrack format for possible future use. What is the standard format? Hard disk? ADAT? It seems that it would take a lot of Hard drives to record an entire rock tour. Also what DAW? Protools? Logic? RUSH records every show. Neil Peart alone has over 20+ channels to himself. Include vocals, sound effects, Guitars, audience mics...that's a lot of channels. Do the bands take an arsenal of hard drives with them? Please let me know...just curious

T_R_S · 19th September 2005

Most of the systems use a 3 way split House/Monitors/broadcast. Then off to 64 tracks of Protools, which only require 4 - 192's now. Our stsem is smal but it can be expaned up to 96 channels. I hope future vwersions will have more inputs. If we have SMPTE for video we tie into the SMPTE code from the video mobile. It's a lot of cable!
Using tape is a thibg of the past due to the time limitation and the need for secondary macines to change tapes with no interuption.

adclark · 19th September 2005

What kind of size and quantity of Hard drives are needed per show for a standard concert

boomed · 20th September 2005

I think you will find DTRS is still the standard. HD recorders are being used more and more but I still consider them back up to tape.

Tape is also a very economical storage format because my tracks may sit on a shelf for several months before they go into edit.

bernieL0max · 20th September 2005

if you had to buy a couple of hunred gig of hdd space for each show would it really matter? hdd's are one of the cheapest (best value) bits in a computer system...

audioez · 20th September 2005

just yesterday I was in the machine room checking out the rig for the HIPHOP HONORS awards show in NYC.

ProToolsHD/Lacie FireWire400 drives
DA88 back up

19th September 2005	#1
adclark Gear nut Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 108 Thread Starter	How do live rock shows get recorded It seems every rock band records all their shows onto a multitrack format for possible future use. What is the standard format? Hard disk? ADAT? It seems that it would take a lot of Hard drives to record an entire rock tour. Also what DAW? Protools? Logic? RUSH records every show. Neil Peart alone has over 20+ channels to himself. Include vocals, sound effects, Guitars, audience mics...that's a lot of channels. Do the bands take an arsenal of hard drives with them? Please let me know...just curious

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T_R_S Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canuk Posts: 5,163	Most of the systems use a 3 way split House/Monitors/broadcast. Then off to 64 tracks of Protools, which only require 4 - 192's now. Our stsem is smal but it can be expaned up to 96 channels. I hope future vwersions will have more inputs. If we have SMPTE for video we tie into the SMPTE code from the video mobile. It's a lot of cable! Using tape is a thibg of the past due to the time limitation and the need for secondary macines to change tapes with no interuption. __________________ ========== Surplus Sale

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audioez Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 627	just yesterday I was in the machine room checking out the rig for the HIPHOP HONORS awards show in NYC. ProToolsHD/Lacie FireWire400 drives DA88 back up __________________

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boomed Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 76	I think you will find DTRS is still the standard. HD recorders are being used more and more but I still consider them back up to tape. Tape is also a very economical storage format because my tracks may sit on a shelf for several months before they go into edit.

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bernieL0max Gear nut Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ballarat, VIC, Australia Posts: 144	if you had to buy a couple of hunred gig of hdd space for each show would it really matter? hdd's are one of the cheapest (best value) bits in a computer system...