When the curtain rises tonight on first of British comedy troupe Monty Python's farewell shows at London's O2 Arena, the moment will be captured by a trio of JoeCo BlackBox BBR64-MADI Recorders. The 64-channel MADI systems form part of recording engineer Matt Bainbridge's arsenal of equipment that is being used to record 168 channels of audio split over three MADI streams.
by Clive Young For Fleetwood Mac, Rumours was one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments: An album that, in no particular order, won the 1977 Grammy for Album of the Year, became the fifth bestselling album of all-time (40 million copies to date), fielded four Top-10 hits, and turned the group into bona fide rock stars. On the other hand, it also took a year to make, during which everyone in the band broke up with his significant other—which in four out of five cases, was someone else in the band. Pile on record company pressures, feuds, writer's block, and jaw-dropping amounts of drugs and alcohol, and it's easy to see how Rumours should have been a complete trainwreck instead of an unqualified success. On hand for each step of the remarkable journey was co-producer Ken Caillat, who recalls every detail in his new memoir, the aptly titled Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album.
"Finally, ports became fast enough to accommodate video cameras, fast hard drives, and yes, audio interfaces capable of streaming lots of data. And as more pros see higher sample rates on the horizon, there's been chatter about the need to upgrade audio interfaces to handle the extra bandwidth. But what port protocol is the best, and most future-proof, choice?" —Craig Anderton in "USB, FireWire, and Thunderbolt...Oh My!" From the latest issue of Pro Sound News - Click here to read the full article!