Contents
04
Contents
Usage and Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05
Names of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
Connecting mics/other devices to Inputs 1–6 . . . . . . . . 08
LCD display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Prepar ations
Supplying power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Loading SD cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
T urning the power on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Set ting the date and time (Date/Time (RTC)) . . . . . . . . . 18
Set ting the power supply used (Power S ource) . . . . . . 20
Recording
Recording process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Set ting the SD card used for recording and
recording file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Selecting inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Adjusting the input levels and monitoring balance . . . 27
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Set ting the sampling rate (Sample Rate) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Set ting W A V file bit depth (WA V Bit Depth) . . . . . . . . . . 31
Set ting MP3 file bit depth (MP3 Bit Rate) . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Recording two trac ks at different levels
(Dual Channel Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Capturing audio before recording starts (P re Rec) . . . . 35
Set ting the maximum file size (File Max Size) . . . . . . . . 36
Folder and file structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Moving the previously recorded take to the
FALSE T AKE folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Recorded tak e settings
Changing the note for the next take recorded (Note) . . 40
Set ting how recorded scenes are named and
numbered (Scene) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Set ting the take reset condition and numbering
format (T ake) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Changing the trac k name of the next tak e recorded
(T rac k Name) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Playbac k
Playing recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Mixing takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Changing the playbac k mode (Play Mode) . . . . . . . . . . 51
T ak e and folder operations
T ake and folder operations (Finder) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Overview of take metadata stored in files . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chec king and editing take metadata (Metadata Edit) . . 60
Writing a sound repor t (Create Sound Report) . . . . . . . 67
Input settings
Input and output signal flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Adjusting the L/R trac k volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Monitoring the input signals of specified trac ks
(PFL/SOL O) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Set ting the monitoring volume on the PFL screen
(PFL Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Cutting low -frequency noise (HPF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Input limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Inver ting the input phase (Phase Inver t). . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Changing the phantom power settings (Phantom) . . . . 80
Changing the plugin power setting (Plugin P ower) . . . 83
Applying delay to input signals (Input Delay) . . . . . . . . 84
Conver ting mid-side input to stereo
(Stereo Link Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Adjusting multiple trac k input levels together
(T rim Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using Input 5/6 as a return (RTN) input . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Adjusting the side mic level of a mid-side mic capsule
(Side Mic Level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Output settings
Set ting signals sent to the output jac ks (Routing) . . . . . 90
Disabling outputs (Output On/Off) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Set ting the standard output level (Output Level) . . . . . 95
Set ting the output level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Applying delay to the output (Output Delay) . . . . . . . . . 97
Output Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Outputting aler ts through headphones
(Alert T one Level) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2
TIMECODE
Timecode overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3
Making timecode settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5
Set ting the frame rate for internal timecode (FPS) . . . 10 9
Jamming internal timecode (Jam) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 0
Restar ting internal timecode with a specified value
(Restar t) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Set ting the automatic timecode recording delay
(Auto Rec Delay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2
Set ting the user bits for internal timecode (Ubits) . . . 11 3
Set ting how timecode is initialized at star tup
(Start Timecode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5
Slate t ones
Using slate tones (Slate T one) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6
Using USB functions
Exc hanging data with a computer (SD Card Reader) . .11 9
Using as an audio interface (Audio Interface) . . . . . . . 12 0
Audio interface bloc k diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Audio interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Using an
R
Using an
R
as a controller (Connect) . . . . 125
Set ting the
R
connected keyboard type
(Keyboard type) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6
Set ting user keys for the
R
(User Key) . . . 12 7
Set ting the power supply used by the
R
(Power S ource) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Powering the
R
with USB bus power
(USB Bus Power) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9
Set ting the
R
LED brightness
(LED Brightness) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Updating the
R
firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
V ar ious settings
Set ting the level meter display (Level Meter) . . . . . . . 133
Making display settings (LCD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Set ting the LED brightness (LED Brightness) . . . . . . . . 138
Set ting how marks are added manually
(PLA Y K ey Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Other functions
Chec king SD card information (Information) . . . . . . . . 141
T esting SD card performance (P erformance T est) . . . . 142
Format ting SD cards (Format) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4
Chec king the F shortcut list (Shor tcut List) . . . . . 145
Restoring default set ting values (Factory Reset) . . . . . 14 6
Chec king the firmware version (Firmware Version) . . 14 7
Updating the firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 8
Appendix
T roubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 9
Detailed product diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 0
Metadata list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
List of shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157