9:35 PM 6/6/00

> It sounds like you got the live stuff kicking with the
> 01V, but I didn't quite catch what you were doing with
> the four bus outs... is that where you are putting
> stuff like drums that isn't going to the house mix?
> Are you running them to your Option I/O? And just out
> of curiousity, what do you use for a recorder? Are you
> using a DAT or lugging a computer to gigs?

I'll answer your questions from last to first.
I have 3 Fostex HDR's and a DAT in an SKB 12 space rack. Water resistant
with the rubber seal on both doors. The recorders have interchangeable
external hard drives in caddies that you just plug in and out when you need
more disk space. I only use the DAT to archive tracks from one recorder
while I am recording on one or both of the others. The recorders sync to
give me 24 live tracks if I need them. I only use all 24 for a local
orchestra. That's with an analog board though.
A typical set-up that I use with my trio if I am running mains from stage
without a soundman:
Keeping everything digital set-up.
01v channels and Recorder #1
V ch 1 vocal mic option out ch1
V ch 2 hi-hat mic option out bus 2
V ch 3 snare mic option out ch 3
V ch 4 kik option out ch 4
V ch 5 floor tom option out bus1
V ch 6 bass option out ch 6
V ch 7 drummers vocal mic ( change scenes for record)
V ch 8 bass players vocal mic (no record)
V ch 9 rak toms option out bus 1 (pan/routing page 2)
V ch 10 ride option out bus 1( I put the ride on the same track as the floor
and separate it later)
V ch 11 cymbals left option out bus 2
V ch 12 cymbals right option out bus 1 (my drummer never hits hi-hat or
cymbals the same time he is playing toms or floor so they are real easy to
separate and paste to other tracks back at the studio)
V ch 13 DAT left to monitor achiving on break
V ch 14 DAT right  "      "       "            "          "
V ch 15 guitar right option out ch 15
V ch 16 guitar left option out ch 16
    The house mix is right there when all the meters are optimum and I just
simply select st on the channels I want out front (pan/routing page 2)
Sometimes I do all the bass at the studio and use track six for drums.
    The drummer only sings a couple of songs, sometimes I switch memories to
a scene that records his vocal but most of the time he adds his lead vocal
and harmonies back at the studio with the bass players harmonies.
I have other set-ups that record all the tracks separate but that is running
analog.
    The fully digital set-up only gives me 8 tracks but is the cleanest way
I have found to record a trio. When I separate the instruments tracks I do
it optically going from recorder to recorder with out the V. I'll take the
hd with the original 8 tracks and put it into recorder #2 and keep the
harmonies and dubs digital throught the ADAT card back into a clean disk in
recorder #1.
    The 4 auxes I use for controlling my guitar channels to stage amps left
and right and two monitor mixes one to me and the other to the band.
I'll control the sub-mixes in Remote page 1.
I'll use channels 17-24 for playback at the club. Setting all their faders
equal. This gives me an accurate way to check my previous sets levels by
ear.

    This utilizes just about every thing on the V, all 14 busses the 12 XLR ins
and the four stereo ins, with out any midi. Yes, its maxed and I'm getting
my money's worth.
It's not exactly easy to describe a complete set-up like this without
thinking a lot so I might have missed something. I'm open to questions.

Cheers,

Ronny