Fostex PD-6 operation manual Making recording, To start recording, slide the REC key

PD-6DVD Location Recorder (Chapter 5: Recording/playback)

Making recording

After making the necessary switch/level settings for recording, you can start recording.

<Note>

By default, you can make recording of analog input signals of all mixer channels if each channel receives only an analog signal. If a channel receives both an analog and digital signals, the digital signal takes priority and the analog signal of this channel is not recorded.

If you want to make recording of analog signals for some channels and digital signals for the other channels simultaneously, use the “Digital in” menu in the Setup mode to select the analog or digital inputs for each two-channel pairs.

See “Digital input channel setting” on page 91 for details about the “Digital in” menu.

1.To start recording, slide the [REC] key.

With a Normal mode disk, the PD-6 creates a “New File” and starts recording to it.

By default, the real-time clock time data is given as the file name when an audio file is created. (Example: “B19h 00m 30s 06jan 2003.wav”)

<Note>

Using the “Default file name” menu in the Setup mode, you can set the default file name given when an audio file is created to “desired scene name + take number” instead of the real-time clock time data. See “Chapter

7:Setup mode” on page 99 for details.

2.To stop recording, press the [STANDBY] key.

During recording, only the [STANDBY] key is effective. To stop the recorder completely, press the [STOP] key after pressing the [STANDBY] key.

Note that the recorder automatically stops completely after a certain period of time since it enters the pause mode. This period is set to three minutes by default, but can be changed to a desired period between 0.1 and 9.9 minutes in 0.1 minute steps or infinity using the “Pause time” menu in the Setup mode. See “Chapter 7: Setup mode” on page xx for details.

If you press the [LOCATE] (or [STOP] + [REW]) key after stopping recording, the recorder locates to the beginning of the newly created audio file. Therefore, you can check the recording by pressing the [PLAY] key in this condition.

<Note>

With a Normal mode disk, every time you start recording after stopping recording, a new audio file is created and recording is made from the beginning of the new file. With a Tape mode disk, every time you start recording after stopping recording, recording is made from the current position.

[PRE REC] switch

[REC] key

[SLATE] switch [STANDBY] ley

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