Section 2.1 - Front panel

This section gives a brief overview of the front and rear panel controls and their functions.

2.1 Front panel

[1]REC FUNCTION keys

These keys with integral indicators allow you to set and view the track arming status of up to six DTRS units attached to the RC-898, or five DTRS units and another recorder.

Tracks 1 through 8 apply to the first unit, 9 through 16 to the second, and so on.

The last eight are used to control tracks 41 through 48 (the sixth DTRS unit) or may be used for the two analog and four digital tracks of a P2 recorder, as marked (A1, A2, and D1 through

D4). These keys are only available for this pur- pose when recording is enabled for the P2 unit (see 9.3.5, “Controlling recording operations on the serial unit”). When used to control the P2 unit in this way, the last two REC FUNCTION keys are unused.

[2]INPUT MONITOR keys

These keys with integral indicators allow you to set and view the input monitoring status of the tracks of any DA-98 units attached to the RC-898. See section 7.1 of the DA-98 manual for details of the operation of these keys, which function in the same way as the keys on the RC-898.

When the RC-898 is used to control DA-88 and DA-38 units, the keys cannot be used, but the indi- cators still reflect the current monitoring status, on

atrack-by-track basis, of the connected units.

[3]ALL SAFE key

This key (with integral indicator) is equivalent to turning off all the REC FUNCTION keys [1]. When all tracks are safed in this way, the ALL SAFE indicator lights. When the ALL SAFE mode is turned off (the indicator goes out), the previous track arming status will be restored.

[4]ALL INPUT key and indicator

This key (with integral indicator) performs the function of the ALL INPUT key on the connected DTRS units. The indicator lights when the func- tion is active.

The INPUT MONITOR keys on a DA-98 also affect the switching between source and tape. Changing the REC FUNCTION status of any tracks while the ALL INPUT function is on will lose the relationship between the REC FUNC- TION and INPUT MONITOR status for individ-

ual tracks when ALL INPUT is turned off again. Start recording or re-set the REC FUNCTION keys to restore this.

[5]AUTO MON key and indicator

This key performs the same function as the AUTO MON key on a DA-98. However, the DA-88 and DA-38 are not equipped with a key with this label, so the function is slightly different when control- ling one of these units.

Pressing this key is the equivalent of pressing the INSERT key on a connected DA-38, and pressing both the AUTO INPUT and INSERT keys on a DA-88. It is used in punch modes to switch auto- matically between tape and source when punching in and out automatically. The indicator lights when this function is active.

Note that the status of the INPUT MONITOR keys on a DA-98 will be overridden by the AUTO MON key. However, when AUTO MON is turned off again, the original status of these keys will be restored.

Changing the REC FUNCTION status of DA-98 tracks while AUTO MON is on will lose the rela- tionship between the REC FUNCTION and INPUT MONITOR status for individual tracks when AUTO MON is turned off again. Start recording or re-set the REC FUNCTION keys to restore this.

[6]CLOCK indicators (INT, WORD and

VIDEO)

These indicators correspond to the indicators with the same names on the currently-selected DTRS unit.

To use the RC-898 to change the clock source on a DTRS unit , see 7.2.6, “Clock selection”.

[7]TC indicators (24, 25, 29, 30, DF)

These indicators correspond to the system time- code type of the currently-selected DTRS unit.

Here, the 29 on the RC-898 panel is an abbrevia- tion for “29.97”. The DF indicator will light if the timecode is in drop-frame format.The supported timecode types are therefore:

2424fps (cine)

2525fps (PAL/SECAM)

2929.97 (NTSC color non-drop)

29 DF 29.97 (NTSC drop-frame)

3030fps (NTSC mono)

30 DF 30fps drop-frame (NTSC color)

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Tascam RC-898 owner manual Front panel