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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21

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The value of the longest travel time is applied to the buffers
of all analog inputs but the one being set.

Digital inputs are

unaffected.

Example1:

a wireless lavalier (3.8ms processing lag) on line1 must

be aligned with a 6m distant boom (18ms travel time) on mic5. Set
mic5 at 18ms and line1 at 3.8ms; all analog inputs will be buffered
by 18ms, line1 by (18 – 3.8) 14.2ms, and mic5 by 0.0ms.

Example2:

a digital boom (5ms processing) on AES-in1 must be

aligned with a 1ms lavalier on mic1.  Set an unused analog input to
5ms and mic1 to 1ms.  All analog inputs will be buffered by 5ms,
mic1 by 4ms.  Both the unused input (set to the longest travel) and
the AES-in1 (by very nature) will remain at 0.0ms.

Travel compensation can go up to 85ms (two frames), the TC
stamp of the audio file is corrected accordingly, it appears in
the iXML chunk and the CSV Sound-Report.

Gain values

Set TECHSET.06 'Display dBFS' ‘ON’; when adjusting a fader,
the gains for that line or mic kind are displayed.

Mic links

They are preselected in AUDIO/TC.10 'Mic Links' (p.31).

Stereo-pairs:  1  >  2      3  >  4

Surround:

    1  >  2.3.4.5 

Double M/S: 1 > 2    3 > 4.5  

(p.44).

To activate the preselection, press the [shift] [link-lock] button
to the right of the master fader; a (

IIIII

) appears between

the linked mic figures, bottom of
the circular screens. Phantom,
Limiter and Highpass filter are
applied identically to the linked

faders. Phase inverters remain independent. The slave gain
is ±12dBu of its master's value. Whenever you adjust a
fader, the master/slave status is displayed on the rectangular
screen as (

II II

) for the master, (

) for the slave.

All of these links remain active when the onboard faders are
taken over by the

CantaRem

RemFaders.

Protecting the balances  

To protect the 'balancing' faders against flying fingers, set
AUDIO/TC.09 'Bal. Access' to 'Locked': balance adjust-

ments  will  only  be  accessible
while pressing the [fil-tom] button.
The slaved gain value is displayed
with  (

) (

) signs showing in

which direction you should rotate the fader to avoid any sud-
den level change when reactivating its balancing power.

Line links

The links are selected and armed in AUDIO/TC.11 'Line

Links' (p.31).  For Surround sound
recording  with  a  Soundfield
ST350,  use  the  line1  fader  as
the  master  of  the  two  other  line

inputs: set 'Line Links' to

1>2.3

Slaved line faders (

) have no

balancing activity, they get their
gain value from the master (

IIIII

The T1–T6 Mixer

The mixer's pan-pot and fader controlled outputs are called

(left), and

(right).

Pan-pots

Each recorded ISO track can be sent to Xa or Xb or both.
Push the [SoloMid

Pan

] to PAN (battery side), press the [track-

solo] button and [jog] the pan marker toward the left or right
side of the circular screen (p.7). The value in dBFS of what is
left to the other side is displayed on the rectangular screen.
When a track pair is declared '

m-s

', its pan markers go to

the middle, the M & S signals are recorded as they are but
they are L/R decoded into the mixdown and the phones.
For the line-out, foldback and digi-out, see

M/S monitoring

p.18.

Faders

The pan-pots being set, each ISO track's contribution to the mix
is adjusted with the faders. The maximum gain can be either
+6dBu or 0dBu (see AUDIO/TC.07 'MixGain Max', p.31). `

Outputs

Recorded on T7T8 or not, Xa/Xb (left/right) can be sent to
the external world by selecting the XX Out-Map in the

Ph, 

and

positions of the [monitor] crown.

Recorded on

T7T8 or not, the Xa (center), Xb (center), Xa+Xb (center), Xa/Xb
(left/right) mixer outputs can be phone monitored in TEST, REC

and PLAY in the

position of

the [monitor] crown; their level is
displayed on the central circular
screen.

note:

when the Xa Xb mixer