The Live-Recorder system provides "an ultra-reliable, high-quality, low-cost solution for high-channel-count live, location or broadcast recording". Live-Recorder is designed for live music recording from FOH console systems, location film sound recording, TV broadcast production studios and broadcast production trucks.
The system connects via standard optical MADI, so it can connect directly to MADI-equipped digital mixing consoles, venue audio distribution infrastructure (Riedel, Optocore, etc.) or broadcast routers. The system presents significant cost-saving opportunities when compared to hard disk recorders or other DAW recorder systems, says the company. Each Live-Recorder system can record up to 128Ch@24bit/48kHz or 64Ch@24bit/96kHz.
Live-Recorder combines Soundscape V6.2 DAW recorder/player software and a MadiXtreme or MX4 PCIe audio interface with an industrial-strength, high-performance 1U rack-mounting PC. The Soundscape 6.2 software is a powerful audio-only multi-track DAW recorder/player.
There are two different Live-Recorder hardware configurations available: Live-Recorder MX4 is an up-to-128-channel recorder utilizing an SSL MX4 2x64 channel MADI I/O interface. It provides a versatile, open-architecture DSP-powered software mixer, which allows anything from simple individual track or stereo sum monitoring to sophisticated multi-feed and 5.1 monitoring.
MX4 offers "high quality in the box summing" and includes SSL EQ, Dynamics and Bus Compressor plug-ins, making it a highly capable mixing and editing solution. Specifying a Live-Recorder MX4 with an SSL Alpha-Link audio converter provides local headphone, analogue I/O and digital I/O connectivity.
Live Recorder 128 is a stripped-down system designed for environments where no confidence monitoring is required. It utilises an SSL MadiXtreme 2- x 64-channel MADI I/O interface for direct optical MADI connection to consoles, routers, etc.
The 1U SSL-certified PC has been specified by SSL and developed in association with key hardware partners in Europe and the U.S. Each machine is housed in an ultra-quiet, front-cooling 1U chassis with 4-x drive SSD RAID array as standard.
(Jim Evans)
