Taking on the task of providing the audio equipment for a show which included more than 80 instruments, Simon Kenning and Phil Palmer from Roland Systems Group took full advantage of the flexibility of the V-Mixing System.
For the performance, which needed to be recorded as well as having many live considerations, they chose two M-480 Live Mixing Consoles in cascade mode, one S-4000 Rack with 40 inputs, 10 M-48 Live Personal Mixers for the band, conductor and organist and two of the new R-1000 Audio Recorders to do synchronized 80 track recording in 24bit 48kHz. Abbey Road provided a digital split from their recording truck using S-MADI to provide the orchestra feeds.
Using the M-480s in a cascade provided a large format mixing system, in this case up to 96 mixing channels, with minimum footprint. On the stage itself an S-4000 Digital Snake rack was configured with 40 inputs using 10 x SIAD-4 4 channel analog input module cards which were connected to the REAC B port of the M-480 cascade master console.
Making their debut at such a large scale performance, the new R-1000's were synchronized to record using their in-built MIDI time code (MMC).
(Jim Evans)
