Rehearsing The Punch-In; Interrupting A Rehearsal Or Punch Recording; Recording The Punch-In; Replaying The Punched Material - Tascam DA-78HR Owner's Manual

5 - Basic operations
5 Press the
CLEAR PRE ROLL
(
so that the display shows
i.e. the post-roll time.
Since there is little point in setting pre- and post-roll
times to frame accuracy, you can only set these val-
ues to second accuracy.
The minimum values you can set are 5 seconds (pre-
roll) and 3 seconds (post-roll) and the maximum
value is 59 minutes 59 seconds for both.
Any punch operation from now will take your setting
for pre-roll and use it when locating the tape to the
punch-in point. For example, if your pre-roll time has
been set to 10 seconds (00:00:10.00), and the punch-
in point is at 00:06:03.12, the tape will locate to
00:05:53.12 when starting rehearsal or punch-in.

5.6.5 Rehearsing the punch-in

After you have set the punch points, and you have
located the tape to the pre-roll point, as described
above, you can rehearse the punch process.
1 Press the
RHSL
key so that the indicator lights
steadily.
This indicates that you are now in rehearsal
mode.
2 Press
PLAY . The tape will start playing from
the pre-roll point.
3 At the punch-in point, monitoring will change
to source.
The RECORD key will flash, and the
FUNCTION indicator of any armed tracks will
light steadily. However, recording will not be
carried out.
4 At the punch-out point, monitoring will change
back to off-tape monitoring.
The tape will continue playing to the post-roll
point and then rewind to the pre-roll point.
5 Repeat the rehearsal process until you are sat-
isfied with the performance.
5.6.6 Interrupting a rehearsal or punch
recording
Very often while rehearsing a punch-in, you will not
want to run the tape all the way to the punch-out
point (an entry cue is missed, or a mistake is made
early on in the take). In these cases, the following
procedure applies to both rehearsal and punch
recording:
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1 While the tape is running, press the
) key once more
( PO 0003 ),
2 Pressing
• Pressing the
• These functions are only operative when the

5.6.7 Recording the punch-in

1 Make sure the tape is at the pre-roll point, and
2 Press
REC
3 At the punch-out point, the monitoring will go
4 The

5.6.8 Replaying the punched material

1 To replay the punch-in, press the PLAY key.
2 At the post-roll point, the tape will automati-
(there is no need to press
The tape will return to the punch-in point,
minus the value specified in the punch-in offset
(5.6.4, "Editing the pre-roll and post-roll
times").
PLAY will then re-start the rehearsal
or punch-in process.
key will locate the tape to the
LOC 2
punch-out position minus the punch-in pre-roll
time.
AUTO IN/OUT
or indicators are lit or flashing.
When they are off, the LOC 1 and LOC 2 keys
act normally.
press the AUTO IN/OUT
The indicator will flash, showing that the DA-
78HR is in auto-punch mode.
PLAY
. The tape will start playing.
At the punch-in point, the
will light steadily, as will the
indicators of any armed tracks. Monitoring
will change from off-tape to source and the
INPUT MONITOR of any armed tracks will
light.
Recording will now actually take place. Any
recorded material which was previously on the
armed tracks between the punch points will be
replaced by the new recording.
INPUT MONITOR
back to off-tape (the
tors of armed tracks will go out), and when the
post-roll point is reached, the tape will rewind
to the pre-roll point.
AUTO IN/OUT indicator will light steadily,
showing that the DA-78HR is now in replay
mode.
Playback will start (the
cators of the armed tracks will continue to
flash).
cally rewind to the pre-roll point.
LOC 1
key
STOP first).
RHSL
will
key once.
RECORD indicator
REC FUNCTION
indica-
REC FUNCTION
indi-