On having a backup recorder when recording concerts

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On having a backup recorder when recording concerts

Post by Cryonicsound » Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:05 am

Tonight I experienced the virtue of having a backup recorder for recording concerts. I've been recording a local bluegrass band's shows for the past few months without one, but this evening, the spider senses tingled. I just had the feeling that something might possibly go wrong with my computer that I usually record onto, so I brought along a Mackie MDR and routed duplicate signals to it. For most of their 1.5 hour set, everything ran smoothly. As they approached the last song however, I got the deadly Logic error message -10011, and the damn thing stopped recording! Normally, I would be in "Oh shit" mode, but not tonight. All I'll have to do now is simply load the last ten minutes of the set into Logic and tack the last song onto the wave files. It was lucky that the error happened towards the end, though. Imagine if it had bugged out right in the middle WITHOUT a backup recorder!

I guess the moral of this story is: redundant backups are your friend.
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Post by Marc Alan Goodman » Sun Feb 28, 2010 5:31 pm

In the magnetic storage world anything that's not in 3 places might as well not exist.

Sounds like it was a great call!

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Post by cjogo » Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:50 pm

A Masterlink is what we use == 50 hours of stereo ..great for live
whatever happened to ~ just push record......

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Post by evilaudio » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:38 am

My Zoom H4 helps me in this situation as well!
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Post by Studiodawg » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:57 am

Back up is why I bought a Zoom R16...nothing fancy, cheap and "just in case"...24bit wav files...

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