With its live singing and its intent to capture as much location sound as possible (Mel Brooks can be heard doing the sound of pigeons on the set --- sort of Foley on the fly), the production needed to double the eight tracks that the most commodious dedicated hardware location hard disk recorder could provide. "The industry has moved to dedicated hard drive versions of linear recorders, " says [Gotham co-owner Peter] Schneider. 'But really all the dedicated hardware recorders are computers optimized for location work. Why not just go directly to a computer?" Schneider adds that laptops are not the ideal recorders for all location applications. "They're tough to hang out the window of a moving car with." he concedes. "But what this really does is send sixteen fully-synched tracks directly into post production's workflow ready to go."

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