Cantar v1.29 user manual 2004 Sept 28
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Rec.
Disk Recording
12 o’clock
In REC a red LED lights up in
the data panel and a [•REC]
icon shows under the active
disk drive.
The internal-disk icon appears on the leftmost cir-
cular display, the external-disk icon appears on the
central display and the CD/DVD-Ram burner ap-
pears on the rightmost display.
Modulometers
In RECORD and TEST, the signal
actually sent
to a
track activates the modulometer. The pitch of the
scale is 1dB in the -35 to -12dB natural working zone
The ballistics emulate needle modulometers, the de-
cay time can be adjusted in TECH from 1 (fast) to 5
(slow for low temp assignments), default is 3.
The peak-meter is always on.
Instant Solos of Inputs and Tracks
When several inputs are routed to the same track,
the routing configuration can be checked – even in
REC. – by pressing the ‘routing’ button top left of
the front panel. It is then easy to monitor a ques-
tionable mic by going to the SOLO position of the
Monitoring Crown or pressing the ‘Solo & Filter’ but-
ton [2] of the mic fader.
Comparing two tracks
The
Solo-Mix-Pan
selector being ‘operator side’,
the digi-mixer buttons become track solo actuators.
Maintening pressure on a button and then pressing
another one makes the first button send the track
to the left ear, and the second one send the track to
the right ear.
Mixdown
pan-pots:
put the SoloMixPan selector in ‘Pan’. Each
track can be sent to the left T7 or right T8 track.
Press the linear fader button of the track to be pan-
poted and jog the marker to the left or the right
of the circular display. Complete left to complete
right, plus all positions in between. The center posi-
tion provides mono monitoring. The value in dB of
what is left for the other side shows on the message
panel. When a track pair is ‘MS’ declared the pan
pot becomes unavailable since the tracks are ste-
reo monitoring decoded. A software modification
is scheduled for October 2004, it will be possible to
send the M track to the left side of the mix.
levels:
once you know what track goes on which
side of the mixdown, you can adjust the level of each
track using the faders.
To listen to the mixdown, put the monitoring-crown
in position [2], and select Phone=MX.
When accessed from the solo list, the mixer output
MX is stereo monitored and shows on the rightmost
modulometer.
Tone generator
In TEST, PPR and REC., [Shift•Red] records a 1Khz
tone on active tracks. Two levels can be selected in
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