recording 48 tracks at once

[grooveline]

I have a project this summer that requires 48 tracks recorded simultaneously. I would like to avoid using any hard disk systems and as it looks now TDM is over the budget.

Anyone had any experience trying this on their PC? Interested in what you used and your positive or negative results.

Thanks

[Hotcrazyfruit]

Originally Posted by grooveline

I have a project this summer that requires 48 tracks recorded simultaneously. I would like to avoid using any hard disk systems and as it looks now TDM is over the budget.

Anyone had any experience trying this on their PC? Interested in what you used and your positive or negative results.

Thanks

PT9 only supports 32. you need to go pt9 hd to record a max of 64.

Nick

[albee1952]

HD Native with a trio of loaded HD IO's. Less than a full HD rig, but still not cheap. I would look at some MOTU interfaces and cubase?

[EGS]

Perhaps something like this?

http://tascam.com/product/x-48/

[John_Toolbox]

If you're on a budget and working at 48Khz or less, I'd just pick up a legacy TDM system. A system with 3 mix cards and 6 888's will handle 48 tracks simultaneously without a problem. You can put this in a PC with XP and 3 PCI slots or a mac G4 running OS 10.3. This will be pro tools 6.4, but once you have the session recorded you can open it up in a newer version for edit and mix.