Freelance engineer and audio consultant Stuart Gillan has designed and built a portable, flight-cased ProTools system using the latest MADI interfaces from SSL and RME.
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–> Using minimal Digidesign gear i.e. circuit boards and a Sync I/O for easy system control under Pro Tools, this highly flexible system fits into a 12U rack. His standard configuration is 64 inputs and outputs on MADI (fibre or bnc) or AES3 (db25 or xir) and 64 analogue mic/line inputs using an optional 12U rack with 64 channels of RME preamp. They can be acquired from just about any source e.g. analogue or digital console, stage-box or splitter.
The entire system is 192kHz compatible and has time-code I/O using a Sync I/O box. The maximum track count with his system is 128 tracks at 48kHz, recorded on rackmount Seagate Firewire drives.
An RME ADI-8QS converter in the MADI stream, provides 8 x analogue outputs for monitors or headphone mixes and a Presonus Central Station provides headphone/monitor control as standard.
Further information is available at Stuart’s website Soundscape Audio.
I have worked with Stuart on a number of occasions in the past and he is an excellent and thorough engineer that I would trust my recordings to any day.
Well done Stuart, this needed doing.
Mike is Pro Tools genius and an award winning ‘audiomeister’, defined as ‘a person of great skill and authority in sound’. His vast array of credits include music (from classical to rock), drama and documentaries across all the BBC Radio networks, as well as audio post production for video and TV, ‘new media’, live sound, commercial CDs, DVDs and podcasts, helping clients tell their stories with sound. He has been described as "an oasis of calm in a stormy creative world"; "quick, creative & easy to work with"; "always going the extra mile"; and "invests himself in the success of your project"’.show me less content in the footer
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