What You Need To Make Recordings; Connecting The Porta02 - Tascam Porta02 MiniStudio Owner's Manual

1.3

What you need to make recordings

Apart from the Porta02 itself, you will
need:
• Some kind of stereo mastering
recorder to produce the stereo record-
ings. This can be a cassette recorder
such as the TASCAM 102Mk II or an
MD recorder such as the TASCAM
MD301. A recorder which does not
have recording level controls is not
suitable for use as a master recorder.
• You will also need RCA (pin or
phono) cables to connect the Porta02
to other equipment.
1.4

Connecting the Porta02

1) Make sure all the equipment is
turned off.
2) Connect the
the Porta02 to the amplifier, using
a pair of terminals on the amplifier
such as
AUX
NOTE
Do not use any terminals marked
intended for record decks. These are connected
to a special circuit inside the amplifier which
makes them unsuitable for anything except
record decks.
3) Connect your mastering recorder
to a set of four
the amplifier (two for
for ).
PLAY
You may be using an integrated system in
which the mastering recorder and ampli-
fier are built into one enclosure. In this
case, you do not need to follow step 3.
2 – Parts of the Porta02
This section gives an explanation of the
different parts of the Porta02, and what
terminals of
LINE OUT
or .
VIDEO
PHONO
terminals on
TAPE
and two
REC
2 Parts of the Porta02
• Some monitoring equipment (some
kind of amplifier and speaker system).
• Headphones, if you intend doing any
work with microphones. These will
avoid acoustic feedback ("howl-
round") when recording. Additionally,
headphones are sometimes useful
when panning tracks on mixdown, as
you can hear the precise position of
each track.
• Of course, you will also need some
kind of sound source to record (instru-
ment or microphone, etc.).
You can listen to the Porta02 by selecting
the amplifier's input source to be from the
terminals to which you connected the
Porta02 ( or
AUX
When you have mixed down and you
want to listen to the mixed tape, you
should select the mastering recorder as
the amplifier's input source.
or
Left
speaker
TAPE OUT
PLAY OUT
REC IN
to
TAPE IN
Mastering recorder
they do.
, etc.).
VIDEO
Right
speaker
To AUX IN
Amplifier
to
LINE OUT
Porta02
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