Tascam 2488 User Manual

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2 – MixerTASCAM 2488 User’s Guide 252 In this screen, the physical faders are repre-sented with side-pointing triangles besidethem representing the virtual fader positions.Above each on-screen fader whose positiondoes not correspond to that of the internal vir-tual fader, there is an arrow pointing either upor down, depending on whether the physicalfader must be moved up or down to null it.A fader which is nulled (faders 15+16 in thescreen above) has no triangle above it.MuteThe MUTE keys for each channel also serve as solokeys (see “Soloing and toggle” on page 29).When a channel’s MUTE key is pressed (when solo-ing is not active), the orange indicator lights, and thesound from that channel is not sent to the stereo bus.The channel’s recording source is also muted.Linking channelsStereo linking provides a way of controlling twochannels (usually, but not always, a stereo pair) withone set of controls.Controls shared by linked channels are:• Fader (the left fader of the pair controls the levelfor both channels)• EQ• Digital pad/gain• Effect send levels and pre/post position• SELECT keysRecord arming, muting and soloing are carried outseparately for each linked pair.Pan and phase are linked, but these can be changedindependently after linking.An odd-numbered channel can be linked to the even-numbered channel to its right. In other words, chan-nels 1 can be linked to channel 2, but to no otherchannel (and channel 2 cannot be linked to any chan-nel other than 1).Linking channels is done by pressing and holdingdown the SELECT key of one of the pair of channelsto be linked, and pressing the other.Unlinking channels is done by pressing the SELECTkey of one of the linked pair (both keys flash) andpressing the other.NOTEIt is also possible to link two inputs together in thesame way so that the EQ, etc. for each input is con-trolled in common.Stereo busThe stereo bus may be thought of as a special perma-nently-linked pair of channels.The output from this bus can be monitored as theSTEREO selection (see “Monitoring” on page 27)and is also as the source for mastering and renderingthe final mix (see “Recorder” on page 36).At the final mastering stage, it is possible to addequalization and dynamics to the stereo bus.