Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

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Connecting your DP-01 to other equipment18 TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s ManualStarting out with your DP-01The INPUT MODE switchYou will use this switch when you are recording from input A andinput B at the same time.INPUT MODE doesnot affect therecording at all—just the monitoringprocess.This front panel switch affects the way that you monitor the input signals,both through the headphones and/or through the LINE OUTPUT jacks. Thereare two positions:In the MONO X 2mode, the A and Binput signals are added together inthe center, and you may hear dis-tortion in the monitoring systemThis does not affect the recording,though.z MONO x 2—The signals from input A and input B are both sent to thecenter of the monitoring “stage”.z STEREO—The signal from input A is sent to the left, and the signalfrom input B is sent to the right of the monitoring “stage” forming astereo pair for use when you are recording stereo instruments such assynthesizers, etc.Monitoring and recording Use the rear panel LINE OUTPUT RCAjacks to connect the DP01 to your monitoring system (that is, an amplifier/speaker setup). When you’re ready to make your final stereo master, youcan use these jacks to connect to an analog recorder.A typical setup would connect these jacks to the AUX IN of a stereo system.“Tracking” meansrecording tracks onthe DP-01. “Mastering” means tak-ing these recording tracks and mix-ing them down to stereo.Use the stereo system’s selector switch to listen to the AUX source whentracking, bouncing or mastering on the DP01.When you have mastered the stereo track and you want to record it, set thestereo monitoring system so that the recorder is set to record from the AUXsource. Now you are monitoring (or listening) through your stereo system.The DP-01FX andDP-01FX/CD theirown internal reverb processors.However, you can also use anexternal effect processor if you pre-fer.Effect processor When you want to use an external effect processorwith the DP01, connect the rear panel SEND of the DP01 to the monoinput of the processor (1/4” unbalanced jack).Connect the stereo outputs of the processor to the two RETURN jacks of theDP01 (1/4" unbalanced jacks).Figure 1.6: Rear panel connectionsTo digitalrecorder, etc.To MIDI sequencer,drum machine, etc.Power input andswitchFrom sub-mixer/MIDI tonegenerator, etc.To analog recorder,monitoring system,etc.From stereo effectsunit outputsTo effectsunit