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Originally Posted by Sheldon Radford
Hi,
As convenient as it would be, such an arrangement wouldn't eliminate all of the possible single points of failure so a true redundant rig using a dedicated split and second preamp + Pro Tools system is always recommended for mission critical applications.
Sheldon
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The problem, to the degree that it is one, will be that all of your preamp gains will be different for the two systems. I've seen this done with two consoles live, and the engineer loaded his show from one into the other. Two completely redundant systems in a mission-critical situation. Of course, if he had peaks during the show, changing gain on one console did nothing to sort out the problem on the second record rig.
Maybe that's not the end of the world, but in an age where a single rack space unit can route MADI signal to two separate sets of outputs, it seems there would be a simpler way to record to a back-up system than to bring in an entirely separate FOH rig.