Kolpak DA-98 manual Track delay, Crossfade times, Press the Enter key

Section 8 – Advanced operations

If the tape is rewinding to the first location point when the REPEAT key is pressed, it will stop.

NOTES

•The two location points must be at least 5 seconds apart for the repeat facility to be operational.

•If you have only set one location point, the repeat will be between “00:00:00:00” and the location point.

•Pressing any transport control while repeat play is in progress will stop the replay, but will not cancel the repeat mode. To restart the repeat playback, locate to either location point, and while the tape is winding, press PLAY. Alternatively, press PLAY while the tape is before the second location point.

8.3 Track delay

The DA-98 allows you to delay tracks relative to the other tracks, either when recording or playing back. You can use this function for post-produc- tion “slip”, compensate for delays caused by external processing equipment, allow for propaga- tion delay in multi-microphone sessions or add special effects.

The track delay can be set from –200 samples to +7200 samples. A negative number means that the track on which the “delay” setting is made is advanced in time relative to the other tracks. How- ever, this does not mean that the DA-98 includes a time machine! Since the monitoring head is a “vir- tual” head, made of a composite of delayed off- tape and input source signals, the “position” of the recording head can be adjusted in both directions.

The track delay, expressed in seconds, is between –4 toTr+150acmillisecondskDelayT. At a typicalimesound propa- gation r te, the maximum value corresponds to about 50 meters (about 160 feet) of distance.

8.3.1 ToTrack1set the track000delay:0Sample

1) DelayS lect menu group 0, and move the cursor to

. Press the ENTER key:

2)To select the track whose delay time you want to change, move the cursor to the number t the bottom left of the screen and use the UP and DOWN keys to select the track.

If the function keys are in number entry mode (see 5.2.2, “Using the function keys as number keys”), you can use keys F 1 through F 8 to s lect tracks 1 through 8 directly.

You can select tra ks 1through 8or all(all can be selected using function keys 9 or 10).

3)By moving the cursor to the bottom right parameter (shown here as “ Sample”), and using the UP and DOWN keys, you can display and set the track del y in either samples or milliseconds (msec).

4)Move the cursor to the central number. The UP and DOWN keys will change the delay value for the selected track(s).

Remember that you can reset the value to zero by pressing and holding the UP key and then pressing the DOWN key. If “ all” has been selected for the track, then all track delays will be reset to zero.

You can also use the function keys to enter the value directly, as described in 5.2.2, “Using the function keys as number keys”.

NOTE

When any track is set to be delayed, the DELAY indica- tor by the tape counter [2] will light.

8.4 Crossfade times

As we mentioned earlier (see 6.6, “Punch-in and punch-out”), digital punch recording requires that the original and new signal be crossfaded over a short period of time.

The factory default crossfade time for the DA-98 is 10 ms, and this can be adjusted in 10 millisec- ond steps to a maximum of 200 ms.

For the most part, 10ms is an adequate value and will produce seamless punches, but there may be times (matching reverb settings, etc.) when a longer crossfade is required.

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