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6 – Basic Operations–Punch-in and punch-out
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 preroll time has
been set to 10 seconds (
00:00:10:00
the punch-in point is at
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tape will locate to
rehearsal or punch-in.
3 Postroll is set in the same way. Use the Ó and
Á keys until the cursor is by the
and repeat the steps above.
The minimum value for postroll is 3 seconds.
6.6.6
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.
L
1 Press the
key
RHSL
lights steadily, indicating that you are now in
rehearsal mode.
2 Press
. The tape starts playing from the
PLAY
pre-roll point.
3 At the punch-in point, monitoring changes to
source.
The
RECORD
key flashes, and the
indicator of any armed tracks lights
TION
steadily. However, recording is not carried out.
4 At the punch-out point, monitoring changes
back to tape monitoring.
The tape continues playing to the post-roll
point and then rewinds to the pre-roll point.
NOTE
If the AUTO PLAY mode is active (press the AUTO
I
PLAY key
so that the indicator lights), playback starts
again as soon as the pre-roll point is reached.
5 Repeat the rehearsal process until you are sat-
isfied with the performance.
6.6.7
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 is missed, or a mistake is made early
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), and
, the
when starting
Post
field,
so that the indicator
REC FUNC-
on in the take). In these cases, the following proce-
dure applies to both rehearsal and punch recording:
1 While the tape is running, press the
H
key
. There is no need to press
The tape returns to the punch-in point, minus
the value specified in the punch-in offset (6.6.5,
"Editing the preroll and postroll times").
NOTE
The location pre-roll time (7.1.3, "Setting the location pre-
roll time") is not used here.
2 Pressing
re-starts the rehearsal or
PLAY
punch-in process.
6.6.8
Recording the punch-in
1 Make sure the tape is at the pre-roll point, and
press the
AUTO PUNCH
The indicator flashes, showing that the DA-
98HR is in auto-punch mode.
2 Press
PLAY
. The tape starts playing.
At the punch-in point, the
lights steadily, as do the
cators of any armed tracks. Monitoring
changes from off-tape to source and the
of any armed tracks light.
MONITOR
Actual recording now takes place. Any
recorded material which was previously on the
armed tracks between the punch points is
replaced by the new recording.
3 At the punch-out point, the monitoring returns
to tape monitoring (the
cators of armed tracks go out), and when the
post-roll point is reached, the tape rewinds to
the pre-roll point.
NOTE
If the AUTO PLAY mode is active (press the AUTO
I
PLAY key
so that the indicator lights), playback starts
again as soon as the pre-roll point is reached.
4 The
indicator lights steadily,
AUTO PUNCH
showing that the DA-98HR is now in "review"
mode.
PREROLL
first.
STOP
M
key
once.
indicator
RECORD
REC FUNCTION
indi-
INPUT
INPUT MONITOR
indi-
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