John Cloy
September 9th, 2004, 10:14 AM
I'm thinking aobut purchasing and Aardvark USB 3 laptop audio captuer device. Does anyone have any experience with it?
I'm shooting community theater (30-100 performers) in both open-air and traditional theaters using 2-3 Sony TRV900/950's. Tomorrow nights musical has ~85 performers, 12 wireless mikes, about 10 other stage and sound track/effect inputs all going to the sound board.
I typically attach my laptop directly to the sound board and take the front of house straight to my hard drive. Post production I use the sound board track as my master synch track for the tapes from all of my cameras. I then will mix most of my sound from the sound board with "flavor" from my camera sound tracks as appropriate (or in the case of failure of the house sound system - which has happened).
My problem - I often times want to re-mix the house sound. For some reason some sound techs seem to feel that the singing by the actors is optional in the FOH feed and what is supplied is 90% music and 10% vocals. These boards could supply me a vocal bus and a music bus, but my laptop only has one input port.
The Aardvaark box http://www.aardvarkaudio.com/products/usb3/ has two inputs and a monitor. So I could take a vocal track, a music track, set my own gains and monitor simultaneously (what an improvement!). It also runs off USB power so I wouldn't need to find 110V for anything.
Anybody tried anything like this? Have any better thoughts?
Thanks!
jc
I'm shooting community theater (30-100 performers) in both open-air and traditional theaters using 2-3 Sony TRV900/950's. Tomorrow nights musical has ~85 performers, 12 wireless mikes, about 10 other stage and sound track/effect inputs all going to the sound board.
I typically attach my laptop directly to the sound board and take the front of house straight to my hard drive. Post production I use the sound board track as my master synch track for the tapes from all of my cameras. I then will mix most of my sound from the sound board with "flavor" from my camera sound tracks as appropriate (or in the case of failure of the house sound system - which has happened).
My problem - I often times want to re-mix the house sound. For some reason some sound techs seem to feel that the singing by the actors is optional in the FOH feed and what is supplied is 90% music and 10% vocals. These boards could supply me a vocal bus and a music bus, but my laptop only has one input port.
The Aardvaark box http://www.aardvarkaudio.com/products/usb3/ has two inputs and a monitor. So I could take a vocal track, a music track, set my own gains and monitor simultaneously (what an improvement!). It also runs off USB power so I wouldn't need to find 110V for anything.
Anybody tried anything like this? Have any better thoughts?
Thanks!
jc