Table of Contents 1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24 4 – Antares speaker modeling Patching and setting up effects ....3 Selecting the speaker modeler ......18 General parameters ..........18 Mono and stereo inputs ......... 4 INTYPE ..............18 Example 1 (Loop/insert setting with INPUT ...............
1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24 The DM-24 contains a number of high-quality effects • Flanger (two channels) that you can use within your project, either while • De-esser (two channels) recording, or on mixdown. • Exciter (two channels) The effects available include: •...
1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24—Patching and setting up effects WARNING NOTE Although it is theoretically possible to select both an The same source cannot be selected twice to feed two aux send and an aux insert as input sources for an different effect inputs (except for the aux sends).
1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24—Effect send sources Example 2 (Loop/insert setting with 1 & 2 Effect 2 (a chorus) is inserted into an input channel both = stereo input) (for example, a fretless bass) in order to thicken the In this example, both sound.
1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24—Effect send sources on the section of the screen when the loop This insert is made pre stereo master fader. assignment is made and is shown as Chxx The outputs are automatically assigned to the stereo through 32).
1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24—Setting up the effects units Setting up the effects units To use one of the internal effect units, press the • The second holds preset TASCAM effect settings EFFECT key and then soft key 2 or soft key 3 ( EFFECT (“Preset effect settings”...
1 – Internal Effects on the DM-24—Changing parameters (fully wet), as the original and processed sound may be NOTE a few samples out of phase with each other, resulting in On account of unavoidable processing delays, it is rec- audio artifacts if the two signals are mixed.
DM-24 allows the This section provides some tips and pointers on how same signal to be routed to more than one channel to best set up the DM-24 in order to avoid any such simultaneously. possible problems.
If you then try to correct this by changing the send/ return mode to the insert mode, another message appears, informing you that return 1 is currently assigned to channel 29. TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
All names of microphone manufacturers and micro- phone model designations appearing in this manual Among other useful information which should be and on the DM-24 are used solely to identify the micro- noted when the recording is made: phones analyzed in the development of the digital •...
These refer to different examples of the same kind of microphone. Pick the one which is most appropriate for your particular microphone. If you do not have a microphone listed in the list of source microphones provided: TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
As with the source microphone, a -w indicates that a with the addition of any tube saturation added by the windscreen has been added to the model. There may modeler (see below). also be variants of the base model, as described for the source microphone. TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
Pick a value of the GAIN which suits your ears. The not increased to the point where digital distortion maximum value which may be set here is +10dB occurs. (0.1 dB steps). The signal to be recorded must there- TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
Microphone models The microphone models listed here are available for The microphone response patterns are shown in the DM-24 microphone modeler. uppercase, as follows: (cardioid), CARDIOID OMNI...
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E 609 none none E 835S none none MD 421 M (music) / 3 / 2 / 1 / S none Sennheiser (speech) MD 441 M (music) / 3 / 2 / 1 / S none (speech) TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
TELE U47 none cardioid / omni Updating microphone models The modeler provides up to 100 models of micro- Consult your dealer for availability. phone. More may be made available in the future through the TASCAM Web site. TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
In the same way that microphones can be modeled, This speaker modeler can be inserted anywhere in the the DM-24 allows for the modeling of speakers. signal chain, but obviously it is more useful if it is selected as an insert in the main stereo outputs.
5 – TC Works Reverb The TC Works reverberation built into the DM-24 is Most common (and a few less common) parameters a sophisticated reverb system, allowing you to simu- can be edited, allowing fine control of the whole late many different kinds of acoustic environment.
“scale” which allows fine-tuning of the times without these frequencies can be set between values of 20 Hz having to turn the PODs an excessive number of 16 kHz . Use PODs 1 and 3 on row 5 to set these times. values. TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
Number Name LCD indication Ambi-Bright 1 Ambience - Bright 1 Ambi-Bright 2 Ambience - Bright 2 Ambi-Bright 3 Ambience - Bright 3 Ambience - Dark Ambi-Dark TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
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FX - Wood Floor Tunn-Bright Tunnel - Bright Tunn-Dark Tunnel - Dark Tunnel - Tube Tunn-Tube Hall - Big Bright Hall-Big Bright Hall-Big Clear Hall - Big Clear Hall-BigPredelay Hall - Big Predelayed Hall-Big Warm Hall - Big Warm TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
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Perc-Small Warm Perc - Small Warm Plat-Big Bright Plate - Big Bright Plate - Big Clear Plat-Big Clear Plate - Big Warm Plat-Big Warm Plat-Tight Plate - Tight Room-Bathroom Room - Bathroom Room-CD Master Room - CD Master TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
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Room-Vocal Room Room - Vocal Room 2 Room-Vocal Room2 These are not reverb settings, but this is the way in which the microphone and speaker modelers are selected Antares AMM-1 Antares AMM-1 Antares SP Model Antares SP modeler TASCAM DM-24 Effects...
6 – TASCAM effects The general effects provided within the DM-24 as There are no hard and fast rules as to how these described in “Internal Effects on the DM-24” on effects can be used, but on the whole, any effect...
6 – TASCAM effects—Preset effect settings Threshold Ratio Attack Time Release Time Knee Shape Output level Bypass –40 dB to –1 dB 1:1.00 to 1:∞ 0.05 s to 5.0 s 50.0 ms to 1.0x to 0.5x –18 dB to +12 dB...
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6 – TASCAM effects—Preset effect settings Effect type Preset No. Title LCD indication Comments Rhythm 2 Rhythm 2 A lighter backing style distortion. Bass Dist Bass Dist Use this distortion with bass. Fusion 1 Fusion 1 Use this with solo instruments to fill out the sound.
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6 – TASCAM effects—Preset effect settings Effect type Preset No. Title LCD indication Comments Bass Phaser 2 Bass Phaser 2 Slower bass phaser. Rhythm Phaser 1 Rhythm Phaser 1 A phase for cutting rhythm. Rhythm Phaser 2 Rhythm Phaser 2 Fast rhythm phaser.
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6 – TASCAM effects—Preset effect settings Effect type Preset No. Title LCD indication Comments Clean Chorus 1 Clean Chorus 1 A light chorus sound. Clean Chorus 2 Clean Chorus 2 Use this clean sound with vocals. Clean Chorus 3 Clean Chorus 3 A vibrato-type chorus effect.
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