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Cantar-X User Manual v2.26 (r13) 2009 April 27
p.18
p.18
Track (dis)arming
An advantage of the monophonic multi-track file recording is
to not waste disk space by recording empty tracks as is the
case with polyphonic files. It is wise to momentarily disarm
a track when there is no use for it. In TEST, press [shift] [track-
solo] of the unwanted track. Its monitor is muted and as a
reminder, its track icon blinks and its modulometer is dashed.
Disarmed tracks are not inadvertantly rearmed by going to
PLAY or BROWSE, you must go to the ROUTING position and
back, or turn 'OFF' the power.
M/S monitoring
The '
m-s
' declaration of a track pair (IN-GRIDS, p.27) causes
them to be decoded as m+s/m–s, i.e. L/R stereo in the phones
and mixdown. If on top of the phones, you want an M/S
recorded track pair (say T5T6) to be sent as L/R stereo to the
Lo, Fb, Do outputs, create an Out-Map in which T5 goes to the
left and T6 to the right, Cantar will
automatically
decode these
M/S tracks as L/R.
This applies to the T1T2 and T3T4 pairs
too, alone or together.
Panning the M track to the left or right,
makes it go there, and the S signal disappears from the mix.
That is a way to mono monitor the M signal.
Headphone level
The headphone level is protected
by [shift] and is displayed on the
rect. screen. Rotating the fader
makes '
<
'
and '
>
' appear. There
is no level change if [shift] re-activation is done while the fader is
put back in its 'pipe' ( | ) position. The headphone amplifier can
drive 8-ohm speakers: a helpful feature to send playback tracks
to the stage. To facilitate extraction of a right angle 1/4” jack
plug, the phone socket is slanted toward the bottom of the ma-
chine; beware, this makes a long straight plug hit the cart desk.
Line-out and Foldback levels
In TEST, open LVL&DELAY with [shift] [silver]. The line-out
and foldback levels are [jog] adjustable from 0 to -94dB
and Mute. A -18dBFS tone deliv-
ers a -10dBu line-output compat-
ible with HD cameras' line-inputs.
CantaRem faders can be assigned
to line-out and foldback level command too (p.53). A two
c12dBu transformer accessory is available (p.57).
note:
insert a 12k ohm resistor in the input path of the Sen-
heiser transmitters to avoid oscillation and noise generation.
Check and select the routings
In TEST, PPR and REC, depending on the [SoloMixPan]
slider position, the [routing] button activates the display
of the input routing templates called
In-Grids
or the output routing templates
called
Out-Maps
. This is done by
continuously pressing the [routing] button
or by a short click to open, another click
to close; this later method liberates the
thumb to better grip the crowns.
In-Grids
To check and select
In-Grids,
PUSH
the [SoloMix
Pan
] slider
to the battery side and press the [routing] button. The silver
[config] crown gives sequential access to fifteen In-Grids, the
last in use is displayed first.
To protect the recording's integrity, you can't change In-Grids
while in REC, but you can do it with a trick: go to PPR, press
the [routing] button, rotate the silver [config] crown to the
desired In-Grid, release the [routing] button and go back to
REC, the pre-record buffer gives you up to thirteen seconds
to act... not one single audio sample will be lost between
the two audio files.
Out-Maps
To check and select the
Out-Maps
for each
Ph
,
Lo
,
Fb
and
Do
outputs,
PULL
the [
Solo
MixPan] slider to the operator's
side, press the [routing] button and rotate the black [monitor]
crown. To browse the preset
Out-Maps
and select one, ro-
tate the silver [config] crown, the active map will be the one
displayed when closing the [routing] command.
You can select different Out-Maps while recording
,
this
doesn't affect the recorded signal.
note:
in PLAY, the active
Out-Map
can't be diplayed, verify
it on the [MainSelector] ROUTING position.
Rec&Play rehearsal
(read p.48 & p.49)
In BLUE-TEST, the playback tracks (Tp1 – Tp8) are sent inter-
nally to the digi1–8 inputs, from where they are routed the
standard way. By pressing [touting], select the
In-Grids
and
Out-Maps
tailored to the job. Rehearse the BLUE-REC navi-
gation and with the analog faders, adjust the levels between
the digital play-cards and the live (analog) inputs.
The last BLUE-TEST played card is the first to be called when
going to BLUE-REC.
TEST 3.
OUTPUT LEVELS
LVL&DELAY 01
LineOut lvl
-20 dB
