5-1-2 Selecting Audio Signals

This section describes how to select the audio signals for input and monitoring.

Selecting the audio input signals

Proceed as follows to select the audio input signal and channels.

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1 Press the AUDIO button, and in the AUDIO menu press the [F1] (AUDIO IN) button, to access the AUDIO INPUT menu.

2 Make the audio input signal settings for each channel.

SDI: audio signal input from the HD SDI INPUT A/B connector

AES/EBU: audio signal input from the DIGITAL I/O (AES/EBU) connector

To make settings for individual channels with the F buttons

By pressing any of the [F1] (A-IN CH1) to [F8] (A-IN CH8) buttons in the AUDIO INPUT menu, and the [F1] (A-IN CH9) to [F4] (A-IN CH12) buttons in the ALT+AUDIO screen obtained by pressing the ALT button, you can select the type of input signal for each channel.

To make input signal selections for individual channels with the numeric buttons

1 Press the cursor T or t button, to align the cursor with the channel for which you want to make the selection.

2 Press the cursor R or r button, to select the signal.

To return to the default settings

Press the cursor center button.

To select the same input signal simultaneously on all twelve channels

Press the [F9] (A-IN ALL) button.

This changes the input signal simultaneously on all twelve channels.

You can also make this setting using the VTR SETUP menu item 830 “AUDIO INPUT SELECT”.

Selecting audio signals to be monitored

With the MONITOR L or R buttons at the upper left of the control panel, switch the audio signal output from the PHONES jack and MONITOR OUTPUT L/R connectors as follows.

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1 Check the audio level display area in the color display, and make sure that the unit is not in the REC LEVEL/ PB LEVEL setting state (with red or blue vertical lines appearing on the left and right of the audio level meter).

The channels for which the signals are currently being monitored are shown by reverse video characters “L” and “R” below the audio level meter.

2 Press the buttons corresponding to each channel, to light the L/R reverse video indications below the audio level meter, and specify channels 1 to 12 with the MONITOR L or R button (both L and R can also be specified).

This setting can also be made using the VTR SETUP menu items 807 “AUDIO MONITOR-L select” and 808 “AUDIO MONITOR-R select”.

To adjust the audio output level of the PHONES jack

Rotate the PHONES level control on the upper control panel.

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