Headphone extensions have been the bane of many a sound engineer's existence. The cables on IEMs are never long enough to get from the musician's head to the Roland R-1000 Multi-Track Recorder Player Review
by Mike Sesser, ChurchTechArts.org
We first saw it at NAB in the spring, and have been anxious to get my hands on it ever since. The R-1000 is a 48-channel recorder/player that plugs right into a V-Mixing system using REAC. It can also be used in a MADI environment if you have an S-MADI Bridge...more on that in a moment. There a number of options for doing virtual soundcheck and multi-track recording out there, but the R-1000 has a few tricks up it's sleeve.
First, we'll consider it's use in a V-Mixing environment. If you are familiar with REAC, you know it's a 40-channel protocol. The R-1000 can record and play back up to 48 channels. It accomplishes this by having two sets of REAC ports. REAC A loops out to C, B loops out to D. Thus, if you have two stage boxes, the R-1000 drops into the system between the stage boxes and the mixer. You can easily pick off which channels get recorded up to a maximum of 48.
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