Richard Ragon Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 I finally retired my old 744 back up. I got another PIX recorder. This is probably a stupid question, but I saw someone on set hit the record button, and both recorders went on record. How did they do that? Yes, I read the manual. Seams like several ways? rs232 remote plugs? Though eithernets? Remote plugs? Timecode? Whats the standard here? -Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickreich Posted November 24, 2016 Report Share Posted November 24, 2016 the way I do it is a DIY button box with Rec and Stop buttons. Each button is double-pole single throw momentary, one pole of each switch wired to the GPIO socket on the back of each 970. I don't like having a backup grouped via ethernet to a main recorder for transport, it seems to me to reduce the redundancy somewhat. that said, have had some issues in a recent situation running four 970s, where two machines made up the 128 channel "Main" recorder and another pair were the "Backup". I had my GPIO button box connected to the first unit of each pair and used ethernet transport control (on two separate groups) to roll their respective paired machines. I encountered some issues with take numbers getting out of sync between machines that Sound Devices Tech support said was a known issue with using a GPIO trigger on one of a networked set of recorders, so make sure to thoroughly test such a setup. cheers, nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Ragon Posted November 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2016 Very interesting. Thanks Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Palmer Posted November 29, 2016 Report Share Posted November 29, 2016 Group the machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Ragon Posted November 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks Phil.. New territory here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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