BLACK
BOX
RECORDER
- User Manual v2.2
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In the SETUP | CONTROL menu, select
Link Mode
. Select
Master
for the
recorder you want to act as the master controller (which will always record
channels 1-24). The Slave units can be set to
Slave 1-24
(creating duplicate
tracks to those on the master recorder – though you will obviously have to
feed this unit the same audio signals as the master recorder or you’ll be
recording silence!),
Slave 25-48,
Slave 49-72
, and
Slave 73-96
. The Slave
machines will use the respective numbers (1-24, 25-48, etc.) to name the
tracks that they record and will also use any remote Track Arming data from
a 9-pin or MIDI controller. If you name a song on the Master unit, the Slave
unit(s) will rename the tracks on its local disk drive. The slave units
automatically take their clocking and control signals from the link connection
and will lock out the transport controls on all but the master unit.
It is still possible to lock the Master unit to an external clock source if
required by plugging an external AES Clock into the
Ext Clk In
of the Master
unit or on digital units clocking all the systems to external word clock.
However, do not wire the clock output from Slave 3 back into the Master
unit as this will create a feedback loop may cause the clocking to become
unstable. (The link signal between Master and Slave units is proprietary and
does not conform to the SPDIF protocol)
You then operate the Transport Controls of all the linked BBRs from the
Master unit. Please note though that the headphone monitoring for each
unit will still appear only on the unit that is recording those signals, so you
will have to either use multiple headphones or swap them from one unit to
the next if you need to monitor the higher numbered channels on the Slave
systems.
Master/Slave Recording
Any slave units will go into record as soon as their respective disk is ready, so
they may not start together and their time displays may not appear to be
perfectly in sync. However, all the files recorded will have an accurate time-
stamp and so will be in sync when imported into a DAW. Pressing the REC
