Meters; Meter Ballistics; On-Screen Meter Selection; Metering Points - Tascam DM-4800 Owner's Manual

Meters

The main monitor meters provide a "pre-dim" and
"pre-level control" reading of the source selected to
feed the control room outputs.
The meters are set up so that the
lights at over full-scale output (the exact level is set
as described in "Meter ballistics" on page 69). A
reading corresponding to
lent to a nominal analog level (+4dBU or –10dBV).

Meter ballistics

The meter ballistics, etc. for all
meters, including software meters, and these are set
up in the
METER/FADER METER
screen (1st 24 channel module meters)" on page 69).
Use POD 2 to set the level at which the meter OVER
indicators will light (relative to full-scale):
, , ,
-0.20dB -0.17dB -0.13dB -0.10dB
Use POD 3 to set the meter release time between
Slow , Normal and Fast .
Use POD 4 to set the meter hold time between
seconds, and ∞ (infinite hold
(no hold), , , and
1 2 4 8
until this parameter is reset).
Each module also has its own set of meters which
follow these meter settings above. These are located
in the common global area of the module screens
("Global module settings" on page 72) which can be
set there as being pre- or post-fader.
There is also a series of metering screens, as men-
tioned above, allowing different sets of modules to
be metered.

On-screen meter selection

column of radio buttons to select the following mod-
ules for metering:
CH 1-24 The first 24 channel modules
CH 25-48 The second 24 channel modules
CH 49-64 The last 16 "return" modules
Buss 1-24 The 24 busses
AUX 1-12 The 12 aux sends

Table 4.4: Meter selection

4 – Routing & assignment : Monitoring
indicator
OVER
on the meters is equiva-
–16
screen (see "Metering
, ,
-0.06dB -0.03dB
Off
Use the left-hand
In every case, the stereo buss meters are visible at the
lower right of the screen:
Figure 4.10: Metering screen (1st 24 channel
module meters)
The options at the extreme lower left echo the same
settings made in the preferences (as explained in
"SEL Key Follows Fader Layer Status" on page 43).

Metering points

The center
of radio buttons allows the selection of where the
metering for the different groups of modules takes
place.
For the "full-feature" modules from 1 through 48 (
1-48 ), the points are at the input stage (
the gate ( ), after the gate (
PRE GATE
the EQ stage ( PRE INSERT ), and after the fader (
FADER ).
For the channel modules from 49 through 64 (
), there are only 2 meter points: at the input stage
64
( INPUT ) and after the fader (
The master channels ( MASTER
compressor/expander ( PRE COMP
) or post-fader (
FADER POST FADER
NOTE
If the optional meter bridge is fitted, the settings made here
apply to the meter displays on the meter bridge, as well as to
the on-screen meter displays.
TIP
The TASCAM Mixer Companion software provides a software
"meter bridge".
TASCAM DM-4800 User's Manual
METERING POINT array
CH
INPUT ), before
) or after
POST GATE
POST
CH 49-
POST FADER ).
) can be metered pre-
), pre-fader ( PRE
).
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