Fostex X-12 Using a tape recorded on a boom box or cassette deck

Model X-12 Owner's Manual

<Note>

You can position the sound on tracks 1-4 anywhere in stereo image on

mixdown.

This is where your creatively is important. Try for a sound that is pleasing

to you!

You can record your favorite music on a boom box or cassette deck and overdub your

performance or vocal, accompanying your musician's performance to make your own

original tape. Follow the procedure below to make this type of tape.

Track 4

Track 3

Track 2 (R channel)

Track 1 (L channel)

Record your favorite song to Tracks 1 and 2 on the

boom box or cassette deck.

Do not record now. Later, you will record your

performance or vocal here on the X-12.

2. Insert the recorded tape in the X-12, and follow the "Overdubbing"

procedure described previously to record your performance or vocal

to Tracks 3 and 4.

<NOTE>

Note that the law prohibits recording copyrighted or broadcast music, except forrecordings intended only for personal use.

After finishing the level adjustments, rewind

the tape to the "000" point.

Now you can begin mixdown.

First start recording on the master recorder,

then press the [PLAY] button on the X-12 to

start playback.

After mixdown is complete, stop the X-12 and

the master recorder.

Play back the tape on the X-12.

While monitoring the sound via the headphones,

use the playback fader and the playback [PAN]

knob of each track to adjust the output level

and balance of the tracks.

Gradually raise the headphone volume using

the [LINE OUT/PHONES] knob. This knob also

adjusts the output level at the X-12's [LINE OUT

L, R] jacks. Set the level so that the level meter

of the master recorder will respond moderately.