Linked to a Yamaha PM5D-RH console, chosen for ease of use and changeover, Procol Harum FOH engineer Graham Ewins explained how the 24-channel multi-track live audio recorder proved its worth.
"Hook-up was simplicity itself, connect the looms, connect the hard drive, power up and off you go. We had to configure our new hard drives for fat 32 file handling, but once this was done, we were up and running very easily. Procol Harum channels total to 22, with channels 23 and 24 used as a stereo pair for audience capture, so it's ideal both for creating a one scene one to 24 layer on the PM5D and for capturing the whole show using a single BBR unit.
"The Blackbox Recorder remembers all the shows and puts them into a file by date. It also tells you how much disk space you have left and just gets on with it."
(Jim Evans)
