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Section 6 – Basic operations
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and edited to frame accuracy, either from a cue list
or “on-the-fly” in real time.
The DA-98 provides a rehearsal mode which sim-
ulates the punching process, allowing the artists to
perfect the timing of the new material.
The mechanics of punching on a digital recorder
appear to the operator to be the same as on an ana-
log recorder.
Crossfading, however, is an important and useful
function on digital recorders, to ensure continuity
between original and punched material. In the
case of the DA-98, this crossfade time is adjust-
able from 10 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds
(see 8.4, “Crossfade times”).
The
AUTO MON
mode is essential here: in both
rehearsal and punch modes, the material prior to
the punch point is monitored off tape. The moni-
toring of armed tracks changes to source while
rehearsals and punching are carried out and then
changes to off-tape again after the punch-out
point.
6.6.1 Automatic punch point setting
Whenever recording takes place, the time when
recording begins is automatically stored as a
punch-in time, and the time when recording stops
is stored as a punch-out time.
This is not usually the way in which you will want
to set the punch points, however. There are several
alternative ways in which you can set these points,
as described below:
6.6.2 Setting punch points “on the fly”
This method demands sharp reflexes (but you can
edit the punch points later as we show below).
1) Press the
AUTO MON
key [19] (the indicator will
light).
2) Arm the track(s) on which you will be
recording (use
REC FUNCTION
).
3) Press the
RHSL
(rehearsal) key [9].
The indicator will flash, showing that the DA-98 is
in “rehearsal learn” mode.
4) Rewind the tape to before where the punch is to
occur.
5) Start playing the tape (press
PLAY
).
You will monitor the off-tape signals.
6) At the point where the punch is to occur, press
RECORD
.
The
RECORD
key will flash, and the
REC FUNC-
TION
indicator of any armed tracks will light
steadily.
The
INPUT MONITOR
indicator of any armed
tracks will light and monitoring will change to
input source recording for these tracks.
At any time when the rehearsal key is lit or flash-
ing, this means that recording will not actually be
carried out, even if the
RECORD
key and/or the
REC FUNCTION
indicators are lit.
7) At the point where you want to punch out,
press PLAY.
The
REC FUNCTION
indicator of any armed
tracks will start flashing again. The
RECORD
key
will go out.
The
INPUT MONITOR
indicator of any armed
tracks will go out, and monitoring of these tracks
will return to off-tape status.
NOTE
Though you can perform punch recording in either the
confidence mode (see 7.2, “Confidence mode”) or the
ALL INPUT mode (see 7.1.1, “ALL INPUT [18] and
INPUT MONITOR [29]”) , the monitoring in these
modes does not make it easy to perform accurate punch
operations. We suggest that you turn these modes off if
you want to perform punch-ins.
Pre-roll
point
Punch-in
point
Post-roll
point
Punch-out
point
Pre-roll time Post-roll time
Rehearsal learn
TAPE SOURCE TAPE
Rehearsal
TAPE SOURCE TAPE
AUTO PUNCH
TAPE SOURCE TAPE
Replay check
TAPE TAPE TAPE