Shuttle Monitoring; Shuttle Muting; Reference Levels - Tascam DA-98 Owner's Manual

Section 8 – Advanced operations
ative to normal speed): 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0.
The 1.0 speed is only available when shuttling in
the forward direction.
Shuttle operations are only possible when the
indicator is lit (press the
SHUTTLE
switch).
NOTE
SHUTTLE knob remains untouched at the
If the
center position for 10 seconds, the shuttle mode is dis-
abled, and the indicator goes off.

8.6.1 Shuttle monitoring

This is also covered in 7.1.3, "Shuttle monitor-
ing".
The default behavior of the DA-98 is that when
shuttling the tape, you can choose whether to
monitor off-tape or source when shuttling, using
the tracks'
INPUT MONITOR
NOTE
When monitoring in shuttle mode, the monitor signal is
attenuated by 12 dB (to avoid possible damage to ears
and speakers ).
When [19] is on
AUTO MON
any armed tracks will be off-tape, unless the
[20] is on, in which case, the monitoring of
MON
armed tracks will be source input. The monitoring
of all other (unarmed) tracks can still be switched
on a track-by-track basis using the tracks'
switches.
MONITOR
The key is only enabled when
SHTL MON
is on. When
MON AUTO MON
effect.

8.6.2 Shuttle muting

As explained above, shuttling the tape will usually
allow off-tape monitoring. However, there may be
times when you will want to mute all off-tape sig-
nals when shuttling.
8-6 – 1.00 – 06/97
SHUTTLE
switches.
the monitoring of
,
SHTL
INPUT
AUTO
is off, it has no
1) Enter menu group 2, move the cursor to
and press
ENTER
2) Use the and
UP DOWN
mute or .

8.7 Reference levels

The value of reference level (for analog inputs and
outputs) on the DA-98 can be selected from
among three standard values: TASCAM, SMPTE
and European reference levels, depending on the
application. The meanings of these three levels
are:
Reference
Standard level
(0dBFs)
TASCAM –16dB
European –18dB
SMPTE –20dB
To set the reference level, perform the following
steps:
1) Enter menu group 2, move the cursor to
, and press ENTER:
2) Use the and
UP DOWN
the following:
FS.
:
keys to set the shuttle
Nominal Maximum
level level
+4dBu +20dBu
+4dBu +22dBu
+4dBu +24dBu
keys to select between
FS, FS and