Two kick drums, two snares, two hi-hats, five toms. And I have a lot of drumsвЂ¦ДЄntony King: Oh, about 24 if you count the hi-hats. And with all the synths on the stage you get a lot of additional tracks. And every day I have to take care of file handling and backup things.ДЄntony King: I do everything in 48 kHz and all the mixes are handed in 24 bit. MAGIX: To record more than 100 Depeche Mode concerts creates quite some audio data?ДЄntony King: Oh yeah, I have a lot of hard drives. If someone asks вЂњCan you record the show tonight?,вЂќ the answer is always вЂњYes,вЂќ knowing that it will be okay. It gets the same 64 direct outs from the console, but Sequoia never goes wrong. Are you using any?ДЄntony King: We also have a backup hard-disk recorder running at the same time. MAGIX: Backup solutions during live recordings are sometimes neglected.

I take my laptop with me to the studio and connect via MADI to the studio matrix. MAGIX: You do use Sequoia then for mixing afterwards?ДЄntony King: Yeah. ThereвЂ™s no soundcheck so I use Sequoia before the concert as virtual playback with the tape return of the Midas to check the acoustics. I just work on the console and I record everything in there. MAGIX: You donвЂ™t actually touch Sequoia during the concert?ДЄntony King: ThatвЂ™s correct. MAGIX: And during the concert, are there any playback or effect tracks that you need to handle? What audio signals do you actually send to the stage apart from monitoring?ДЄntony King: None at all. MAGIX: It seems, youвЂ™re mixing on your Midas console and use Sequoia for the recording?ДЄntony King: Yes, we record the direct outs of the Midas in Sequoia over MADI. You take the laptop with the recordings to your room and all you need is to not lose the dongle *laughs* It does what all other tools do and even more. WhatвЂ™s great is that you can do everything with it. MAGIX: Since when have you being using Sequoia?ДЄntony King: I started using Sequoia in 2009 for the вЂњTour of the UniverseвЂќ and it never broke.

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