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  • Page 1 » OWNER’S MANUAL 9101411800...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Important Safety Instructions .....3 1. An introduction to the Porta02 ..4 1.1 Multitrack recording – a brief introduction....4 1.2 Some safety notes and precautions ......5 1.3 What you need to make recordings........8 1.4 Connecting the Porta02 ..8 2.

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    Important Safety Instructions CAUTION: "Note to CATV system installer: • Read all of these Instructions. This reminder is provided to call the CATV system installer’s • Save these Instructions for later use. attention to Section 820-40 of the NEC which provides guide- •...

  • Page 4: An Introduction To The Porta02

    1 An introduction to the Porta02 1 – An introduction to the Porta02 TASCAM Porta02 MiniStudio recording” before you start using the allows you to produce recordings which Porta02. Spending a little time reading are not possible with an ordinary stereo now will save you a lot of time in the cassette recorder.

  • Page 5: Some Safety Notes And Precautions

    1 An introduction to the Porta02 and on A/V cue-equipped cassette record- ers. IEC (Philips) ste- TASCAM 4Tr 4Ch TASCAM 4Tr 3Ch reo cassette (Porta02 format) (A/V cue format) Notice that the stereo cassette arrange- one pair of L and R tracks on the stereo ment allows you to use both sides of the cassette take up the same positions as cassette, by playing the tape in the other...
  • Page 6 1 An introduction to the Porta02 audio equipment). If any liquid or any detergent. Do not use solvents or thin- objects such as paperclips, guitar ners, etc. to clean the Porta02, as these picks, etc. fall inside the Porta02, do will damage the surface.
  • Page 7 All of these problems can be avoided if Capstan you buy a head cleaning kit such as the TEAC TZ-261 and keep it with your Pinch wheel Porta02 for regular use. The kit consists of head cleaner, cleaner for the rubber parts of the Porta02, and cotton-tipped 1) Open the tape cassette cover.

  • Page 8: What You Need To Make Recordings

    2 Parts of the Porta02 What you need to make recordings Apart from the Porta02 itself, you will • Some monitoring equipment (some need: kind of amplifier and speaker system). • Headphones, if you intend doing any • Some kind of stereo mastering work with microphones.

  • Page 9: Parts Of The Porta02

    Parts of the Porta02 Parts of the Porta02...
  • Page 10 Parts of the Porta02 POWER IN and switch PHONES jack This 1/4” jack allows you to connect a Use this jack to connect the PS-P2 AC pair of stereo headphones to the Porta02. adaptor which comes with your Porta02. When connecting the power, make sure WARNING the power switch is off (slide it to the right, as you look from the back).
  • Page 11 Parts of the Porta02 clockwise to for any channel which When the switch is PHONES MONO is recording a microphone. pressed, these controls will have no effect on the output from the jack. PHONES Instruments such as electric guitars pro- [13] REC FUNCTION switches duce a signal which is between...
  • Page 12 Parts of the Porta02 jacks. They should be used together • If the left record-protect tab of the cas- with the TRIM controls (see 3.3, “Setting sette has been broken out, or if there is no cassette loaded, the the level”) to adjust the levels of the sig- RECORD cannot be pressed.

  • Page 13: Making Your First Recording

    3 Making your first recording 3 – Making your first recording 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).

  • Page 14: Setting The Level

    3 Making your first recording 3) Play the tape for about 10 seconds and then stop the tape. 4) Press the counter reset button. Setting the level The aim of this section is to teach you to set the input level so that the average signals coming from the microphone will light the meter indicator, and the loudest will light the indicator.

  • Page 15: Recording The First Track

    3 Making your first recording Recording the first track 1) Set the switch of REC FUNCTION INPUT 1 You are now ready to record on track 1. Make sure the REC FUNC- TION switch of INPUT 2 is set to SAFE , so you don’t record on it by accident.

  • Page 16: Recording The Next Track

    3 Making your first recording Recording the next track Since you plugged the microphone into , and MIC/LINE 1 / MONO didn’t plug anything into , the microphone signal is split MIC/LINE 2 as if it was plugged into both channels. 1) Take fader 1 to the 0 mark.

  • Page 17: Recording The Stereo Backing

    3 Making your first recording Recording the stereo backing Now that tracks 1 and 2 are filled with spoken words, we’ll put some backing music behind them. We’ll assume that you’re using a CD player here (of course, it may be an MD player or a cassette player).

  • Page 18: Mixdown

    3 Making your first recording Mixdown Make sure that your mastering recorder is connected to the monitor- ing system. 1) Set both switches to , and move both REC FUNCTION SAFE faders down to This will stop any extra unwanted noise from the inputs appearing in the final mix.
  • Page 19 3 Making your first recording 7) Mix the tracks, fading the backing music on tracks 3 and 4 to taste. 8) At the end, stop both machines. Rewind the mastering recorder. 9) Set the amplifier input source to the mastering recorder, and replay your mix.

  • Page 20: Hints And Advanced Tips

    4 Hints and advanced tips 4 – Hints and advanced tips This section gives a few hints and tips which may be useful to you when you make recordings using the Porta02. Recording techniques Learning how to record is an art, not a you, and there are several good books on science.

  • Page 21: Mixdown

    4 Hints and advanced tips 4.1.3 Metering In general, you should not try to record at When playing back if one or both of the too high a level, and the indicator input channels has set to , they will SAFE should not be lit more than half the time display the levels of the signal sent to the...

  • Page 22: Troubleshooting

    5 Troubleshooting track tape in the Porta02. The left and ing the Porta02 tracks to the mastering right stereo tracks of the mastering machine, as the Porta02 does not use noise reduction. Of course, on the recorder can be used as tracks 1 and 2 of final stereo mix, you can use noise the Porta02, leaving tracks 3 and 4 ready reduction on the mastering machine.

  • Page 23: Specifications

    6 Specifications MONO If you’re listening through headphones, is the Porta02’s switch pressed? The PAN controls don’t work MONO If you’re listening through speakers, is there a switch on the amplifier which has been pressed? When monitoring while recording, the sound will often be a little different to when it is played back.
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