thinking about getting one of these since ive ben wanting to start dabbling in the multitrack world... any thoughts on this machine?
i have one....served me well for live work....the HD24 is now a great starter rig for multitrack, look out for some great deals on ebay. Depending on your budget, try and pick the XR, it has better converters, there is a fantastic and very active HD24 Yahoo news group here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hd24/
I have the Hd24xr to use as a backup to my computer rig. I also bring it on it's own if I am going multi-track out of the board. It is rock solid
reliable and sounds great too. Make sure to get the optional fireport to get files onto your computer.
Good luck
awesome thanks for all the info... would be manly using this to multitrack off the board for shows and maybe record demo's of my band.
I've been thinking of grabbing one too. How do you generally hook up? Especially on SBD's that don't have a direct out on each channel? The ones I frequent have groups which the sound guy doesn't bother to use. The one at my local bar does not have individual outs, but I guess I could push 1/4" plugs into the inserts, only going into the first click? Do you use splitter snakes?
Quote from: SmokinJoe on May 12, 2010, 06:38:27 PM
I've been thinking of grabbing one too. How do you generally hook up? Especially on SBD's that don't have a direct out on each channel? The ones I frequent have groups which the sound guy doesn't bother to use. The one at my local bar does not have individual outs, but I guess I could push 1/4" plugs into the inserts, only going into the first click? Do you use splitter snakes?
Plugging in to the first click of the insert channel with a trs plug is fine. The signal will be unbalanced but that will hardly matter with short cables. I do not use splitter snakes.
I have used one of these on 2 different occasions to do live 24 track recordings from the direct outs of a board. I also synced a 722 via the word clock to add a 25th and 26th channel stereo aud - these 2 channels just had to be lined up with the rest in post. I found the unit very easy to use and I'm very happy with the results.
The audio in the video linked below is from one of these recordings. I can't claim the mix which was done by the band's engineer in a studio but I did record it.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1240355848787&comments= (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1240355848787&comments=)