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Cantar-X User Manual v2.26 (r13) 2009 April 27
p.17
p.17
The value of the longest delay is applied to all channels
except for the one being set; example: a digital wireless lava-
lier (3.8ms processing delay) feeding line1 must be in-phase
with a boom at 6m distance (18ms sound propagation time)
feeding mic5: set mic5 at 18ms and line1 at 3.8ms. All ana-
log inputs are buffered by 18ms, line1 by (18 – 3.8) 14.2ms,
and mic5 by 0.0ms.
Since the delays can go up to 85ms (two film frames), the
TC stamp in each audio file is corrected accordingly; for this
reason, each input delay is noted in the iXML chunk and the
CSV Sound-Report file.
Gain values
Set TECHSE
T.06 'Display dB'
to ‘ON’; whenever you adjust
a fader, all inputs for that type (line/mic) are displayed (in dBFS)
on the rectangular screen.
Mic links
The links are preselected in AUDIO/TC.08 'Mic Links'
(p.31),
Stereo-pairs:
pre-select
1 > 2 & 3 > 4
Surround sound:
pre-select
1 > 2.3.4.5
Double M/S:
pre-select
3 > 4.5
(p.44).
To active the preselection, press the [shift] [link-lock] button
to the right of the master fader;
a (
IIIII
) appears between the
linked mic figures in the bot-
tom of the circular screens.
Phantom, Limiter and Highpass filters are applied identically
to the linked faders. Phase inverters remain independent.
The slave tuning range 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,
(
II
) for each slave
((coming soon))
.
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.07 'BalanceLock' to 'Locked'; balance modifica-
tions will be unlocked while press-
ing the [so-fil-tom] button (2). The
slaved gain value is displayed
with (
<
) (
I
) (
>
) signs showing in
which direction you should rotate the fader to avoid any sud-
den level change when unlocking the balance key.
Line links
The links are selected and armed in AUDIO/TC.09 '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 (
I
) 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
Xa
(left), and
Xb
(right).
Pan-pots
Each recorded iso track can be sent to Xa or Xb or both.
Push the [SoloMix
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.05 '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,
Lo
,
Fb
and
Do
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
So
position of the [monitor] crown; their level is
displayed on the central circular
screen.
note:
when the Xa Xb mix-
er outputs are recorded on
T7T8, their levels are dis-
played on the rectangular screen bargraphs (p.8).
TEST 2,
MIXER
* line X *
-dB
14
IIIII
14
I
14
I
22
* MicX lokd*
-dB 22
I
14
IIIII
16> 21< 15
I
AUDIO/TC 08
Mic Links
1>2.3.4.5
AUDIO/TC 09
Line links
1>2.3