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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
p.8
p.8
4 modulometers
Cantar's large circular modulometers, visible under the bright-
est light as well as in the dark, converting levels into angular
values, are the most accurate metering tools found in any
portable recorder. They feature a non-linear scale with in-
creased resolution (1dB) in the most important range: -55 to
-40dBFS (5dB per segment); -40 to -32dBFS (2dB / seg-
ment); -32 to -12dBFS (1dB / segment); -12 to 0dBFS
(3dB / segment).
The peak level segment hold duration is adjustable from one-
half to five seconds in TECHSET.13 (p.34).
The tracks are grouped into 'natural' pairs: T1T2, T3T4,
T5T6. When a track is momentarily dis-armed, its modulom-
eter appears dashed.
5 Monitoring physical status
The center of each circular screen continually displays the
status of the main recording elements:
• activity of the internal HD ('three-platter' icon on the left
screen), the external HD ('three-platter' icon on the middle
screen), and the DVD ('one-platter' icon on the right screen).
Disk activity is highlighted by the presence of the track IDs
recorded on it.
• sync clock mode: either master
int c
or slave
ext c
.
• mic preamplifier status: Limiter 0n/0ff, Direct/Invert, Phan-
tom 0n/0ff.
• the current monitor map name (sent to the phones too) is
constantly displayed by large alphanumeric characters.
• the activation of the
mixdown recording
on T7T8 is indi-
cated by the '
mix
' icon next to the T7 & T8 track IDs.
note:
the screens are visible in very bright sunlight; to save
backlight power, see TECHSET.05 'Backlight' (p.33).
Rectangular screen
• Operating positions
(p.10)
In
STOP
top row :
batt-L & batt-R voltage
middle row :
system time
bottom row :
system date.
In
TEST
or
REC
top row :
T7T8 modulometers in
dBFS: -50 -45 -40 -38 -36 -34
-32 -30 -28 -26 -24 -22 -20 -18
-16 -14 -12 -9 -6 -3 0 Clip.
To display T7T8 levels with higher precision, press the [eye]
button, this will swap T7T8 with T5 T6 on the right circular
screen.
The [jog] overwrites the T7T8 bargraphs with battery volt-
age, available disk space, or remaining recording time cal-
culated from the current track count, bit-depth and sample
rate.
middle row :
the source and the TC stamped in the audio
files: '
Atc
' (ASCII-TC), '
Ltc
' (jam from LTC), '
Stc
' (from the sys-
tem calendar), '
Otc
' (Operator entered TC), '
Rtc
' (Record-Run
TC), and '
Etc
' (slaved to an external clock).
bottom row:
(in TEST) current project name; (in REC) 'filetag &
duration' or 'scene & take' by [shift] [eye]. While adjusting a
pan-pot, the track rank, plus the maximum gain value of the
whole mixer panel (0dB or +6dB)
are displayed.
In
PPR
or
BROWSE
scene, take, track-names, com-
ments, Sound-Roll/Shoot Day, for
their editing (p.19 & p.25).
I
n
PLAY
player's position, cue points, ab-
solute time, 'filetag & duration' or 'scene & take' (p.24).
• Operand positions
(p.26)
In
AUDIO/TC
,
TECHSET
,
SESSION
and
BACKUP
the pathtree of each parameter:
top row
: the 'Operand', e.g. AUDIO/TC.
middle row:
pa-
rameter name, e.g. Sample-Rate.
bottom row:
parameter
value, e.g. 48048.
DESCRIPTION
RECT. SCREEN
left screen
Internal HD
right screen
CD/DVD
middle screen
External HD
AUDIO/TC 01
SampleRate
48048
NEXT AX0490
Seq Sc Tk
121R/a12t06
A00* >00:00
02:15 02:17
CC2165 03:32
V16.2 V14.8
Sys 12:45:22
2007–11–24
