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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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REC
SOLOS & BEEPS
Recording
In REC, '
•
rec
'
is displayed under the active drive icon and a
red LED lights up underneath. While in REC, both batteries
are paralleled for additional safety.
ISO Track modulos
In REC, PPR, TEST, the modulometers display the level of the
signals to the tracks. The circular modulometers' resolution is
1dB in the -35dBFS to -12dBFS working zone The rectangu-
lar screen modulometers' resolution is 2dB in the same zone.
The ballistics emulate needle modulometers. The decay time
can be adjusted in TECHSET.12 'Meter Speed' from '
1 (fast)
'
to '
5 (slow)
'. The peak-meters 'hold' period can be adjusted
from one-half to five seconds in TECHSET.13.
Soloing inputs
To monitor any input, rotate the [monitor] crown to
So
and select the desired input.
You can directly solo a mic by
pressing its [fil-tom] #2 button
or make a short click to toggle
it ON/OFF. While soloing a
mic, its high-pass filter can be
[jog] modified; the locked bal-
ance action of slaved mics is unlocked. Soloing the
master of a linked pair causes the master to be sent to
the left and the slave to the right channel.
To directly solo Line-in1 to Line-in4, push the Solo
Mid
Pan
slider in its middle
position and press
[track-solo] buttons
1 – 4.
Soloing tracks
To solo tracks T1 to T6 in both ears, pull the [
Solo
MidPan]
slider to the Operator. Press [track-solo] buttons 1 – 6.
To solo tracks T7 or T8, move the Solo
Mid
Pan slider to its
middle position and press [track-solo] buttons 5 or 6.
note:
while maintaining pressure on a [track-solo] button,
press another one. You will hear the first soloed signal in
the left ear, and the second in the right ear. Use this feature
to compare levels, phasing and differential delays.
Locking the Fader Surface
Press the [link-lock] #3 button between mic 1 & 2 faders to
(dis)able the mixer's linear faders; press the button between
mic 3 & 4 to (dis)able all rotary faders. To prevent inadver-
tent locking, you must press the button for a full second. Any
action on a disabled fader causes the rectangular screen to
display '
Locked Fader
' instead of its gain value.
Reference Tone generator
In TEST, PPR or REC, [shift] [red] sends a 1kHz tone to the tracks,
modulometers and mixdown. '
-18dBFS
' or '
-20dBFS
' is selected
in AUDIO/TC.03 'Tone Level'. Releasing [shift] before [red]
locks the tone 'ON'; pressing [shift] turns it 'OFF'.
Talkback mic
In TEST, PPR or REC, press and hold the [black] button to
send the talkback to the left channel (AUDIO/TC.04 'Talk-
bckMic'). Quickly press [black], release then press and hold
to send the talkback to the right channel. Press [shift] [black]
to send the talkback to all tracks.
Warning beeps
One beep
: record start (TECHSET.07), saturation (clip) detec-
tion (.08).
Two beeps
: record stop or low priority problem
such as low battery voltage. 'Lack of external clock' (.09)
is automatically disabled on 'w' (wild track) takes.
Three
beeps
: high priority problem, e.g. unplugged external HD.
The beep level is set in TECHSET.11 'Beep Level'.
Take-gender
Press the [red] button to scroll the
t-p-w-a-n
take-gender list:
t =
t
ime synced, p =
p
ick-up, w =
w
ild track, a =
a
n-
nounce, n =
n
o good (keeps the take # for the next file
and grays-out the take in the PDF sound report, "
false start
"
appears in the comment line.
note:
in case of false-start, stay in REC, press [red], select '
n
'
in the tpwan list,
then and only then
, go to PPR; the next take
will carry the same take # as the 'ignored' one.
Going to PPR (p.20), you could open the PREVious edit pro-
cess to do the same, and even erase the take to save disk
space, but this takes more time, and this is not recommended
in the high pressure short time interval following a false-start.
#2
#3
#1
