Teac 2488 - Manual (Page 25)

2 – Mixer
TASCAM 2488 User’s Guide
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2 In this screen, the physical faders are repre-
sented with side-pointing triangles beside
them representing the virtual fader positions. Above each on-screen fader whose position
does not correspond to that of the internal vir-
tual fader, there is an arrow pointing either up
or down, depending on whether the physical
fader must be moved up or down to null it.
A fader which is nulled (faders 15+16 in the
screen above) has no triangle above it.
Mute
The MUTE keys for each channel also serve as solo
keys (see “Soloing and toggle” on page 29).
When a channel’s MUTE key is pressed (when solo-
ing is not active), the orange indicator lights, and the
sound from that channel is not sent to the stereo bus.
The channel’s recording source is also muted.
Linking channels
Stereo linking provides a way of controlling two
channels (usually, but not always, a stereo pair) with
one set of controls.
Controls shared by linked channels are:
• Fader (the left fader of the pair controls the level
for both channels)
• EQ
• Digital pad/gain
• Effect send levels and pre/post position
•
SELECT keys
Record arming, muting and soloing are carried out
separately for each linked pair.
Pan and phase are linked, but these can be changed
independently after linking.
An odd-numbered channel can be linked to the even-
numbered channel to its right. In other words, chan-
nels 1 can be linked to channel 2, but to no other
channel (and channel 2 cannot be linked to any chan-
nel other than 1).
Linking channels is done by pressing and holding
down the
SELECT key of one of the pair of channels
to be linked, and pressing the other.
Unlinking channels is done by pressing the SELECT
key of one of the linked pair (both keys flash) and
pressing the other.
NOTE
It is also possible to link two inputs together in the
same way so that the EQ, etc. for each input is con-
trolled in common.
Stereo bus
The stereo bus may be thought of as a special perma-
nently-linked pair of channels.
The output from this bus can be monitored as the
STEREO selection (see “Monitoring” on page 27)
and is also as the source for mastering and rendering
the final mix (see “Recorder” on page 36).
At the final mastering stage, it is possible to add
equalization and dynamics to the stereo bus.