Tascam PORTA02 Making your first recording, Setting up, Getting ready, Making your first recording

3 Making your first recording

3 – Making your first recording

This section describes how to make a 4-track recording using the Porta02. For this, we will assume that you are making a recording of your voice on two tracks (1 and 2), using a microphone, and recording a part of a stereo CD or cassette on the other two tracks (3 and 4). Make sure you know what you are going to say.

Start by making sure that you have all the equipment listed in 1.3, “What you need to make recordings”.

3.1Setting up

1)Make sure all equipment is turned off.

2)Connect the LINE OUT jacks of the Porta02 to the AUX IN jacks of the amplifier.

3)Connect the mastering recorder REC IN and PLAY OUT jacks to the appropriate jacks of the amplifier. See 1.4, “Connecting the Porta02” if you are not sure what you should be doing here.

4)With the INPUT 1 fader at the 0 position, plug the microphone into the MIC/LINE 1 jack. Do not plug anything into the MIC/LINE 2 jack.

If the microphone has a switch, make sure this switch is off.

5)Plug the stereo headphones into the PHONES jack of the Porta02.

6)Turn on the Porta02, the mastering recorder, and the amplifier (in that order).

7)Set the amplifier’s input source to AUX (or the name of the jacks to which the Porta02 is connected).

3.2Getting ready

1)Clean the heads and pinch roller (see 1.2.4, “Cleaning the heads” and 1.2.5, “Cleaning the pinch roller”).

2)Insert a Type II (chrome) cassette.

The tape should be towards the front of the Porta02, and the full spool should be on the left side. Put the non-tape part of the cassette in first, and then push the tape (front) down into place

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