Fostex FD-8 owner manual Digital and analog simultaneous recording, Starting the recording Program

Digital Recording

Digital and analog simultaneous recording

While you are recording S/P DIF digital signals (except for adat digital signal) on some tracks, you can record analog signals on other tracks. In this way, you can record two S/P DIF digital inputs (L and R) and two analog signals on four tracks.

This section explains how to record S/P DIF digital signals from CD, MD, or DAT to tracks 1 and 2, and record analog signals from a guitar and vocal to tracks 3 and 4. Before recording, initialize the FD-8.

Note: This type of recording is possible on removable disks (such as an EZ disk, zip disk), fixed disk, or optional 2.5-inch internal hard disk. You cannot perform this type of recording if you are using an MO disk as the recording media.

CD, MD, DAT etc.

	INPUT 8	INPUT 7
MONO/L	8 INSERT 7
	SCSI	DATA	DATA	PUNCH	MIDI	MIDI	RECORDER IN
		IN	OUT	IN/OUT	IN	OUT	R	L

FD-8 rear panel

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

FD-8 front panel

Monitoring headphone

Electric guitar Microphone

Connecting an external digital device and musical instruments

1.Connect the DATA IN jack of the FD-8 with the OPTICAL OUT jack of an external digital device

using an optical cable.

If the digital device has only the COAXIAL (RCA pin) jack

Starting the recording Program

1.If multiple Programs exist, first select the desired recording Program.

Setting a recording track

as a digital output, use a Fostex COP-1.

2.Connect the guitar to input jack 1 (or to an empty channel).

3.Connect the microphone to input jack 7 or 8.

Set the LEVEL switch to L.

1. In the “Setting digital input tracks” menu in SETUP mode, set [L-1] and [r-2], then exit SETUP mode.

Now inputs L and R from the external digital device are assigned to tracks 1 and 2.

When you finish setting the parameters in SETUP mode, be sure to press the EXIT/NO key or the STOP key to exit SETUP mode.

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