Sonifex COURIER, User Handbook Manual

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Chapter 5 - Recording
Courier User Handbook 5-5
5.5. Confidence monitor
Courier has a MONITOR key on the front panel which can be used during
recording as a confidence monitor to playback the audio whilst you are still
recording it.
For example if you record, "testing, testing,
one, two, three.........." and then hold the
MONITOR button, you will, after a few
seconds, hear "testing, testing, one, two,
three.........." repeated.
By occasionally pressing the MONITOR
button you can be reassured that for mpeg
recordings, recording is actually taking place
and that the data is written to the hard disk.
Note : MONITOR plays mpeg compressed
audio as stereo audio, but plays linear files
as mono only. So, if you are recording a
linear stereo clip on only the right channel, then no audio will play when you
press the MONITOR button. Also the monitoring of linear files is carried out
from memory only, not from the PCMCIA disk.
During recording, simply hold the MONITOR key down and what you have
recorded will be played back to you. There are two points to note about monitoring
audio :
•
To be able to use the MONITOR key, you must have recorded a certain amount
of audio to disk beforehand. Currently, the amount of audio to be recorded
varies depending on the sample rate, bit rate and recording type specified, with
a minimum of ½ second and a maximum of several minutes (for very low bit-
rate mpeg compressed audio).
•
For all recordings, the audio which is played back is in delay, with the delay
varying as above.
Release the MONITOR key to stop the playback.