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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on February 27, 2009, 01:45:59 AM

Title: JoeCo Blackbox
Post by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on February 27, 2009, 01:45:59 AM

http://www.joeco.co.uk/main/VSCR1_Summary.php

Interesting.  Can this be powered in the field?  Appears so...

19" rack mountable - 1U high
Dimensions: 425mm x 150mm x 44.4mm
Weight: 1.3kg
dc input: 7.5V - 12V
Power consumption: <25W


(http://www.joeco.co.uk/main/source/BBRcropped.jpg)

(http://www.joeco.co.uk/main/source/BBR-RearPanel.jpg)

Title: Re: JoeCo Blackbox
Post by: ghellquist on February 27, 2009, 02:33:20 AM

There seems to be a lot of bandwidth used on this box on various forums.

Could we please wait until someone has actually used the box in the real world.

// Gunnar

Title: Re: JoeCo Blackbox
Post by: sunjan on February 27, 2009, 04:12:29 AM

I don't really get it:

Rear Panel Connectors
Analogue i/o

3 x 25 way Male D-type supplied with 2m looms to 1/4" stereo TRS jacks (for mixer insert points - tip send, ring return)


No XLR jacks, and no mic preamps? So this rig is basically meant for feeding individual channels from the soundboard?!
Nice if you're a sound engineer, but too clunky for most of us...  ???

Title: Re: JoeCo Blackbox
Post by: Ozpeter on February 27, 2009, 06:42:11 AM

It's very clearly aimed at guys doing live sound who don't want to spend any time and thought on running a multitrack recording (fair enough).  So just plug it into the sound board insert sockets, press one button, and there you are.

Or - you could select your favourite reasonably portable mixer or perhaps a suitable multichannel mic preamp, and turn that into a basic recorder by adding one of these devices.

Seems a good idea to me if that's a function you need to a piece of gear for.  And useless if you don't!