Location Music recording Job, advice much needed.

Oh!
I see my real name and email's up here.

My previous incarnation here was StudioRat...

D.

[email protected] wrote:

> Mac Powerbook G4
> M-Audio- 2626
> Audient Asp 8
>
> 2 pin to 3 pin Mains plug adapters…
> Multicore 8-way 30m
> Long Mic Cables x 2 10 to 15M
> Reg Mic cables x 8
> 2 4way Mains Plugboards
> 2 long Mains Plugboards
> Adat Cable
>
> 5 DPA 4011 (suspended above and in front of musicians)
> 2 Senheiser MKH 40’s
> 2 Neumann Shotgun mic’s KM 82’s ?
> 3 Boom Mic Stands
> 2 Baby Mic Stands.
>
> Quantegy FW80 Harddrives
>
> Tool Kit???

I'd bring several extra cables including Firewire and TOSLink. I'm not a
big fan of using laptop computers for remote recording very far from
home, so I'd bring at minimum a spare computer and probably a spare
audio interface. At least bring CDs or DVDs that you need to reload the
operating system, your DAW program, and any accessories, drivers, or
plug-ins. How will you be monitoring? Headphones? Speakers? Small hand
tools, a test generator (like an NTI Minirator), and a multimeter are a
good idea. A sun hat?

> Oh if anyone could tell me how much space 6 hours of 8 tracks at 48Khz
> 24 Bit will use off the top of their heads I'd be much obliged

Hmmmm . . . someone who has to ask that question probably doesn't have a
lot of experience using a computer as a recorder. In that case I'd
suggest leaving the computer and M-Audio interface at home and taking
along an Alesis HD24, and maybe a cheap mixer for monitoring.

However for your edification, for 24-bit 48 kHz, figure on half a
gigabyte per hour per track.


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<[email protected]> wrote:
>I'd like to post my prepared kit list here and see if anybody would
>care to comment on it.
>
>Kit List
>
>Mac Powerbook G4
>
>M-Audio- 2626
>Audient Asp 8

Bring a backup recorder, because sooner or later something will go wrong
with your Mac. Even if it's a Professional Walkman or something, it's
better than nothing.

Bring an external hard drive cabinet, just in case.

>2 pin to 3 pin Mains plug adapters=85
>Multicore 8-way 30m
>Long Mic Cables x 2 10 to 15M
>Reg Mic cables x 8
>2 4way Mains Plugboards
>2 long Mains Plugboards
>Adat Cable

Bring a spare Lightpipe cable. Sounds like you have enough spare
mike cables.

Do not expect the power to be on Europlugs. Bring whatever power adaptors
you can spare, and if you have adaptors to go into Edison and bayonet lamp
sockets, bring them too. Bring cutters and wirenuts so you can splice into
wiring. You will be amazed at the electrical infrastructure.

>5 DPA 4011 (suspended above and in front of musicians)
>2 Senheiser MKH 40=92s
>2 Neumann Shotgun mic=92s KM 82=92s ?
>3 Boom Mic Stands
>2 Baby Mic Stands.

I'd skip the shotguns completely, and bring a couple more MKH-40s, or even
better the hypercardioid versions.

Bring some clamps with mike thread, so you can clamp mikes to surfaces and
pipes.

Bring windscreens.

Bring an EV635A. When everything else fails, the 635A keeps working.

>Quantegy FW80 Harddrives

I'd bring an external hard drive cabinet as well, and a copy of your
operating system disk so if the OS disk fails you can just swap a new one
in.

>Tool Kit???

Absolutely.

>If anyone would care to comment I'd be happy. Weight is a major factor
>here...

Drop the stands, then. The stands are the heaviest part of the whole
thing and you can improvise something on the fly with pipe and clamp.

>Oh if anyone could tell me how much space 6 hours of 8 tracks at 48Khz
>24 Bit will use off the top of their heads I'd be much obliged.

You can do the math yourself. If your system is storing 24 bit data as
32-bit samples (which is common), it is:

4 (bytes per sample) X 8 (channels per sample) X 48,000 (samples per second)
X 3600 (seconds per hour) X 6 (hours) = about 30 Gb.

If your system packs samples as 24 bit data, it's about 23 Gb.
--scott
>
>All the best,
>Dave.
>
>
>


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> Bring cutters and wirenuts so you can splice into
> wiring. You will be amazed at the electrical infrastructure.

Oh hell yeah, that's not the positive sort of 'amazed'.
Reminds me of days when i was installing electronics for casinos...

Bring rubber gloves. Seriously.

> >Tool Kit???
>
> Absolutely.

Bring a multimeter. Bring a power conditioner.

Transport everything in good quality cases. Regular suitcases will break.