{"id":170,"date":"2010-02-24T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synthax.testing.pm\/latest\/?p=170"},"modified":"2015-11-25T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:13:28","slug":"digico-d5-and-rme-capture-maroon-5-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/2010\/02\/24\/digico-d5-and-rme-capture-maroon-5-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Digico D5 and RME capture Maroon 5 live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jim_Ebdon_RME\"<\/a>The band\u2019s tour was recorded with RME\u2019s HDSPe MADIface<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Maroon 5 FOH engineer, Jim Ebdon, transformed his DiGiCo D5 console into a mobile recording unit by using RME\u2019s HDSPe MADIface<\/a> 128-Channel 192 kHz MADI PCI ExpressCard.<\/p>\n

Ebdon installed the HDSPe MADIface in a Mac Powerbook, which was connected to the D5. The small footprint of the D5 and HDSPe MADIface made the rig compact and easy to set up at each venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this setup, I\u2019m able to have a fully functioning recording studio on the road,\u201d Ebdon explained. \u201cThe MADIface card takes up virtually no space and I can get it in my computer bag. With that, along with the D5\u2019s fantastic functionality and very small footprint\u2014I\u2019ve got one small rack at FOH and one on stage with one thin cable linking it all\u2014I can get great results.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of money on previous tours setting up a Pro Tools system just to archive a show,\u201d he added, \u201cwhich a lot of bands seem to want to do these days. Fifty thousand dollars in the grand scheme of things, to a major artist is sort of nothing. But it\u2019s kind of a headache because it’s another whole big rack. It\u2019s quite a lot of time to get it set up everyday and make sure it\u2019s working properly.<\/p>\n

The MADIface is basically two cables and I can record and play back up to 56 straight, pre-EQ, pre-compressors, pre-mute, straight-from-the-mic pre -amp right into the computer. I\u2019m using Apple Logic, but there are half a dozen other programs you can use just as a recording platform. And it\u2019s rock solid. Out of the box, with the plug-ins it comes with for $499, it\u2019s a fantastic program. It was so easy to set up for the first time, and the recordings sound great. We also have 6-7 cameras shooting the show every night on this tour, so we can easily sync up to the video, too. So for next to no money, a band could easily release a DVD from this as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

By utilising most of the D5\u2019s onboard effects, Ebdon\u2019s has a minimal amount of outboard gear along for the tour. He used a Focusrite Producer Pack, a TC6000 for extra and different-sounding reverbs, and a De-Esser for Adam Levine\u2019s lead vocals. His \u2018not-so-secret-weapon\u2019 is a Hedd192 Crane Song signal processor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a \u2018less is more\u2019 kind of person,\u201d Ebdon commented. \u201cIn rehearsals, we made sure that the sounds were good. I\u2019m big on that you have to get the source sound right and choose the right microphone, and a good mixing console does the rest. And theoretically, I just push the fader up and it sounds fantastic. On this tour, we\u2019re using 52 inputs at FOH with a 56-input stage rack. I could\u2019ve let it get to 60-70 inputs, but three guitar mics on a guitar cabinet is a bit excessive. I use very little EQ purely because we\u2019ve got the sound right on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ebdon is a faithful DiGiCo user and looks forward to using the SD7 on future tours. \u201cWhen digital consoles first started showing up, the D5 was the obvious choice. It was one of the easiest and most intuitive consoles available. In fact, I remember saying to [DiGiCo\u2019s] Bob Doyle back then that I needed someone there for three days while I got up and running on the console in rehearsals. He came down and after an hour I sent him away. It was so intuitive. I couldn\u2019t do that on any of the other competitive consoles.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on the Digico consoles click here<\/a><\/p>\n

For more on RME\u2019s HDSPe MADIface click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The band\u2019s tour was recorded with RME\u2019s HDSPe MADIface Maroon 5 FOH engineer, Jim Ebdon, transformed his DiGiCo D5 console into a mobile recording unit by using RME\u2019s HDSPe MADIface 128-Channel 192 kHz MADI PCI ExpressCard. Ebdon installed the HDSPe MADIface in a Mac Powerbook, which was connected to the D5. The small footprint of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[494],"tags":[32,13,29,5,30,31,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthax.co.uk\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}