Rehearsing The Punch-In; Interrupting A Rehearsal Or Punch Recording; Recording The Punch-In - Tascam DA-98 Owner's Manual

Section 6 – Basic operations
4) Post-roll is set in the same way. Use the
and keys until the cursor is by the
RIGHT
field, and repeat the steps above.
The minimum value for post-roll is 3 seconds.

6.6.5 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.
1) Press the key [9] so that the indicator
RHSL
lights steadily.
This indicates that you are now in rehearsal mode.
2) Press . The tape will start playing from the
PLAY
pre-roll point.
3) At the punch-in point, monitoring will change
to source.
The RECORD key will flash, and the REC FUNC-
TION indicator of any armed tracks will light
steadily. However, recording will not be carried
out.
4) At the punch-out point, monitoring will change
back to off-tape monitoring.
The tape will continue playing to the post-roll
point and then rewind to the pre-roll point.
NOTE
AUTO PLAY
If the
PLAY
key [12] so that the indicator lights), playback
will start again as soon as the pre-roll point is reached.
5) Repeat the rehearsal process until you are
satisfied with the performance.
6.6.6 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 cue is missed, or a mistake is
made early on in the take). In these cases, the fol-
lowing procedure applies to both rehearsal and
punch recording:
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LEFT
Post
AUTO
mode is active (press the
1) While the tape is running, press the
[22].
There is no need to press STOP first.
The tape will return to the punch-in point, minus
the value specified in the punch-in offset (6.6.4,
"Editing the pre-roll and post-roll times").
NOTE
The pre-roll location time (see 8.1.3, "Setting the loca-
tion pre-roll time") is not used here.
2) Pressing will then re-start the rehearsal
PLAY
or punch-in process.
NOTES
LOC 2
• Pressing the
punch-out position minus the punch-in pre-roll time.
• These functions are only operative when the
AUTO PUNCH
indicators are lit or flashing. When
LOC 1
they are off, the
mally.
SHIFT
• If the key has been pressed, and the
indicator is flashing, the
act as function keys (see 5.2.1, "The SHIFT key and
function keys").

6.6.7 Recording the punch-in

1) Make sure the tape is at the pre-roll point, and
press the
AUTO PUNCH
The indicator will flash, showing that the DA-98 is
in auto-punch mode.
2) Press . The tape will start playing.
PLAY
At the punch-in point, the RECORD indicator will
light steadily, as will the REC FUNCTION indica-
tors of any armed tracks. Monitoring will change
from off-tape to source and the INPUT MONITOR
of any armed tracks will light.
Recording will now actually take place. Any
recorded material which was previously on the
armed tracks between the punch points will be
replaced by the new recording.
LOC 1
key will locate the tape to the
RHSL
and LOC 2 keys
will act nor-
SHIFT
LOC 1 LOC 2
and keys will
key [10] once.
key
or