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—Owner’s Manual
Advanced Recording Techniques
This chapter introduces you to various advanced recording techniques using the MT400.

Simultaneous Multi-Channel Recording

In addition to recording four tracks individually as explained earlier, you may sometimes wish
to record multiple sound sources to a track or two. (For example, you may wish to record
drum, bass, and rhythm guitar sounds to two tracks in stereo.) To do this, you can mix input
channel signals into a stereo mix via the Stereo bus, and record the mix to two tracks. The
following procedure explains how to mix four sound sources connected to MIC/LINE
INPUTS 1–4 into stereo and record the mix to Tracks 1 and 2.
1Connect sound sources to MIC/LINE INPUTS
1–4.
You can also mix the sound of a line-level instrument,
such as a synthesizer, connected to STEREO INPUTS
5L/6R or 7L/8R.
2Set the [INPUT–FLIP] switches on Input
Channels 1–4 to “MIC/LINE ( )”.
3Set the [REC SELECT] switches on Tracks 1–2
to “L” and “R” respectively.
Tracks 1 and 2 REC SELECT indicators flash.
With the [INPUT-FLIP] switches set to “MIC/LINE
( )”, Input Channels 1–4 signals are sent to the
Stereo bus. Setting the [REC SELECT] switches to “L”
and “R” selects the L channel and the R channel of the
Stereo bus signal respectively as recording sources. In
this example, the L channel signal is selected for Track
1, and the R channel signal is selected for Track 2.
4Set the [METER SELECT] switch to “ ”.
–+
STEREO
+6
+3
0
–5
–10
+6
+3
0
–5
–10
POWER
AUX SEND
STEREO INPUT
METER SELECTREC SELECT
MONITOR/PHONES
ZERO STOP
PITCH
NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM
TAPE SPEED CONTROL
RL
REC
PLAY REW FF STOP PAUSE
OFF
R
OFF
L
OFF
R
OFF
L
ON
OFF
ON
OFF
SYNC
MULTITRACK CASSETTE RECORDER
MIC/LINE INPUT
INSERT I/O
INSERT I/O
12
1
2
345L6R8R7L
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LEVEL
7L–8R
010
LEVEL
5L–6R
010
LEVEL
MIN MAX
GAIN
HIGH
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
LINE MIC
–12 +12
MID
–12 +12
LOW
–12 +12
AUX
1
010
AUX
2
MIX CUE MIX CUE MIX CUE MIX CUE
010
010
PAN
INPUT-FLIP
TAPE
TAPE
MIC/
LINE
MIC/LINE
to L
LR
1GAIN
HIGH
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
LINE MIC
–12 +12
MID
–12 +12
LOW
–12 +12
AUX
1
010
AUX
2
010
010
PAN
INPUT-FLIP
TAPE
TAPE
MIC/
LINE
MIC/LINE
to R
LR
2GAIN
HIGH
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
LINE MIC
–12 +12
MID
–12 +12
LOW
–12 +12
AUX
1
010
AUX
2
010
010
PAN
INPUT-FLIP
TAPE
TAPE
MIC/
LINE
MIC/LINE
to L
LR
3GAIN
HIGH
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
LINE MIC
–12 +12
MID
–12 +12
LOW
–12 +12
AUX
1
010
AUX
2
010
010
PAN
INPUT-FLIP
TAPE
TAPE
MIC/
LINE
MIC/LINE
to R
LR
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REC
1
4

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7
STEREO
ST+CUE
CUE
STEREO
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
6
8
9
2
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