6 – Basic Operations–Punch-in and punch-out
38 TASCAM DA-98HR
Any punch operation from now will take your setting
for pre-roll and use it when locating the tape to the
punch-in point. For example, if your preroll time has
been set to 10 seconds (00:00:10:00), and
the punch-in point is at 00:06:03:12, the
tape will locate to 00 05 53 12 when starting
rehearsal or punch-in.
3Postroll is set in the same way. Use the Ó and
Á keys until the cursor is by the Post field,
and repeat the steps above.
The minimum value for postroll is 3 seconds.
6.6.6 Rehearsing the punch-in
After you have set the punch points, and you have
located the tape to the pre-roll point, as described
above, you can rehearse the punch process.
1Press the RHSL key L so that the indicator
lights steadily, indicating that you are now in
rehearsal mode.
2Press PLAY. The tape starts playing from the
pre-roll point.
3At the punch-in point, monitoring changes to
source.
The RECORD key flashes, and the REC FUNC-
TION indicator of any armed tracks lights
steadily. However, recording is not carried out.
4At the punch-out point, monitoring changes
back to tape monitoring.
The tape continues playing to the post-roll
point and then rewinds to the pre-roll point.
NOTE
If the
AUTO PL AY
mode is active (press the
AUTO
PLAY
key
I
so that the indicator lights), playback starts
again as soon as the pre-roll point is reached.
5Repeat the rehearsal process until you are sat-
isfied with the performance.
6.6.7 Interrupting a rehearsal or punch recording
Very often while rehearsing a punch-in, you will not
want to run the tape all the way to the punch-out
point (an entry is missed, or a mistake is made early
on in the take). In these cases, the fo llowing proce-
dure applies to both rehearsal and punch recording:
1While the tape is running, press the PREROLL
key H. There is no need to press STOP first.
The tape returns to the punch-in point, minus
the value specified in the punch-in offset (6.6.5,
“Editing the preroll and postroll times”).
NOTE
The location pre-roll time (7.1.3, “Setting the location pre-
roll time”) is not used here.
2Pressing PLAY re-starts the rehearsal or
punch-in process.
6.6.8 Recording the punch-in
1Make sure the tape is at the pre-roll p oint, and
press the AUTO PUNCH key M once.
The indicator flashes, showing tha t the DA-
98HR is in auto-punch mode.
2Press PLAY. The tape starts playing.
At the punch-in point, the RECORD indicator
lights steadily, as do the REC FUNCTION indi-
cators of any armed tracks. Monitoring
changes from off-tape to source and the INPUT
MONITOR of any armed tracks light.
Actual recording now takes place. Any
recorded material which was previously on the
armed tracks between the punch points is
replaced by the new recording.
3At the punch-out point, the monitoring returns
to tape monitoring (the INPUT MONITOR indi-
cators of armed tracks go out), and when the
post-roll point is reached, the tape rewinds to
the pre-roll point.
NOTE
If the
AUTO PL AY
mode is active (press the
AUTO
PLAY
key
I
so that the indicator lights), playback starts
again as soon as the pre-roll point is reached.
4The AUTO PUNCH indicator lights steadily,
showing that the DA-98HR is now in “revi ew”
mode.