Fostex manual Multitrack Recording and Mastering to a DAT, VM200 is word clock Slave

Digital Connections

Mixing a CD Source and Recording to a Digital Multitrack Recorder

In this example, a signal from a CD player is mixed with a signal from an ADAT-compatible digital multitrack recorder, such as the Fostex VR800, and recorded to the digital multitrack recorder.

The CD player serves as the word clock master, and uses a sampling frequency of 44.1kHz. The VM200 and the digital multitrack recorder are word clock slaves, both syncing to the CD player word clock.

Set the Master Word Clock parameter on the VM200 to “SPDIF44.”

The VM200 is word clock SLAVE.

Word Clock Master

VM200

DIGITAL RECORDING MIXER

	S/PDIF OUT
S/PDIF IN
ADAT OUT			Digital in
ADAT IN			Digital out
WORD IN		WORD OUT

CD player

Digital MTR

Multitrack Recording and Mastering to a DAT

In this example, an audio signal is recorded to an ADAT-compatible digital multitrack recorder, such as the Fostex VR800, while also being mixed from the digital multitrack, and sent to a DAT master recorder.

The digital multitrack recorder is the word clock master. The VM200 and the DAT machine slave to it.

Set the Master Word Clock parameter on the VM200 to “ADAT44” or “ADAT 48,” depending on the sampling frequency of the digital mul- titrack recorder.

(If you are using the Fostex VR800 digital multitrack recorder, set this parameter to “ADAT44.”)

The VM200 is word clock SLAVE.

S/PDIF OUT		DAT
	S/PDIF IN
VM200
DIGITAL RECORDING MIXER
ADAT OUT	Digital in
ADAT IN	Digital out	Digital MTR

WORD IN WORD OUT

Word Clock Master

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