Making Your First Recording; Setting Up; Getting Ready - Tascam Porta02 MiniStudio Owner's Manual

3 – Making your first recording
3.1

Setting up

3.2

Getting ready

This section describes how to make a 4-track recording using the
Porta02. For this, we will assume that you are making a recording
of your voice on two tracks (1 and 2), using a microphone, and
recording a part of a stereo CD or cassette on the other two tracks (3
and 4). Make sure you know what you are going to say.
Start by making sure that you have all the equipment listed in 1.3,
"What you need to make recordings".
1) Make sure all equipment is turned off.
2) Connect the
LINE OUT
jacks of the amplifier.
3) Connect the mastering recorder
to the appropriate jacks of the amplifier. See 1.4,
"Connecting the Porta02" if you are not sure what you
should be doing here.
4) With the
INPUT 1
microphone into the
into the
MIC/LINE 2
If the microphone has a switch, make sure this switch is off.
5) Plug the stereo headphones into the
Porta02.
6) Turn on the Porta02, the mastering recorder, and the
amplifier (in that order).
7) Set the amplifier's input source to
jacks to which the Porta02 is connected).
1) Clean the heads and pinch roller (see 1.2.4, "Cleaning the
heads" and 1.2.5, "Cleaning the pinch roller").
2) Insert a Type II (chrome) cassette.
The tape should be towards the front of the Porta02, and the full spool
should be on the left side. Put the non-tape part of the cassette in first,
and then push the tape (front) down into place

3 Making your first recording

jacks of the Porta02 to the
REC IN
fader at the 0 position, plug the
jack. Do not plug anything
MIC/LINE 1
jack.
PHONES
AUX
AUX IN
and jacks
PLAY OUT
jack of the
(or the name of the
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