Yamaha MT4X User Manual page 23

The REC SELECT - TRACK indicator on the display will flash.
Note: You can skip step 2 at this point. However, you must select a track before you
perform the actual recording.
Set the working points:
Post-roll is 10 counts on the tape counter
at 9.5 cm/sec (5 counts at 4.8 cm/sec).
Note: When you perform a punch-in/out recording, you need to find a blank section of about
1 second for your punch-in and punch-out locations. This is because of the gap between the erase
head and record/playback head. Otherwise you may find that you have accidentally erased
material that was before or after the re-recorded segment.
• The pre-roll point - the punch-in/out operation starts playback at this point to give you
a count-in.
The punch-in point - recording begins.
The punch-out point - recording ends.
The post-roll point - the punch-in/out operation stops.
3) Fast-wind or rewind the tape to the location where you want to start the pre-roll. A
location two or three measures before the punch-in point usually works well. Press
the AUTO PUNCH I/O key
Note: If you press this key while a memory point is stored (either or both memory
indicators
deleted and the indicator(s) switched off. When you cancel the Auto Punch function, the
memory point data will be restored and the indicator(s) illuminated again. See "Memory
Functions" on page 41.
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to mark the pre-roll point.
on the display are illuminated), the memory point data will be temporarily
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