FS| Joeco Blackbox and Midas XL48

[Ben M]

Hi folks
Just gathering some interest in the sale of my Joeco Blackbox 24 track recorder (model BBR1A) which is like new condition and only used a couple of times.
I'm also considering selling one of my Midas XL48 8 channel mic pre's (also in perfect condition).

Joeco Blackbox recorder - http://www.joeco.co.uk/main/BBR_models.html#bbr1a

Midas XL48 - http://www.midasconsoles.com/products/xl48.aspx

Will sell both together for $3,000
Or
Joeco Blackbox recorder for $1700
Midas XL48 for $1500

Cheers

[chris p]

Yep, I'll take both. PM'd

[Ben M]

Both of these look to be SOLD pending payment.

[gigpiglet]

hey chris
let me know if you need any assistance with the black box
i have a number of these units and have done lots and lots of work with them.
happy to help out with any queries you might have

[chris p]

Thanks for the offer of help Gareth. There are supposed to be fairly intuitive, yes? Biggest question for me is which hard drive to use with them, most are bus powered and the JoeCo site seems to recommend against that. Any experiences or suggestions?

[gigpiglet]

chris
yes they are very intuitive indeed
you shouldnt have any issues in getting going

re hard drives
we use all Lacie products and specifically the RAID series for our live recordings, though depending on what you are doing you might night need that kind of risk management.
have had absolute success with all the other lacie products (use their drives in the studio as well)
but have also used western digital with success.

you are correct with the bus powered - as the joeco is designed lights (and can even be battery powered) it doesnt have the power in it to drive down the USB bus, so you need to get a 240 powered drive.

and exception to this (not shown in the manual at this point) is little USB "sticks" that are solid state, and dont need much power to run. you might need to do some experimenting here, but the key is to get a large one (like 16gb) as they are the fastest, and you will need the speed.
if its not liking it, the unit will give you a disk to slow error, so you will see soon enough.
will depend on how many tracks you are recording of course.

you should get USB 3 drives, even though the unit is only USB 2, it means that when you are done recording, and go to transfer into PT or wherever you are mixing, the process will be much faster (i only say that as i regularly record over 48 tracks for 2 hours on our MADI units... the copy at the end of the night can be slow!)
if you are just doing small track counts and short recording though thats not really relevant.

shout out if you need anything else.
my email is gareth at gigpiglet.com.au if you are stuck

[Ben M]

This one time.... I used my 64GB USB stick drive thingy. The JoeCo recorded 24 tracks for 4 hours straight without a glitch.

[gigpiglet]

love it
what brand was that ben?
good to keep a record of "known works"

[Ben M]

It's called Fantom Drive Databank 64GB.
From memory I bought it from officeworks.
It's a little goer