Antares TASCAM TA-1VP - Manual (Page 5)

TASCAM TA-1VP
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Contents
IMPORTANT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ..............2
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ............3
Safety Information .........................................4
1 – Introduction ..............................................6
Included items .....................................................................6
About this manual ..............................................................6
Trademarks ............................................................................6
Precautions for placement and use ..............................6
Beware of condensation ...................................................6
Cleaning the unit .................................................................6
2 – Introducing the TASCAM TA-1VP Vocal
Producer ....................................................7
How to use this manual ....................................................7
The contents of this manual............................................7
TASCAM Vocal Producer Overview ...............................7
Auto-Tune Pitch Correction .............................................8
A little bit about pitch ................................................8
Some pitch terminology ............................................8
How Auto-Tune detects pitch ..................................8
How Auto-Tune corrects pitch ................................9
Scales ................................................................................9
Speed ................................................................................9
An example ....................................................................9
Antares Microphone Modeling ......................................9
About the technology ..............................................10
So what exactly does it do? ....................................10
Understanding Compression .......................................10
Threshold and Ratio ..................................................10
Limiting ..........................................................................11
Dynamic Expansion and Gating ...........................11
Compression and Expansion Combined ...........11
Hard Knee/Soft Knee ................................................12
Attack and Release Times .......................................12
What is a De-Esser? ...........................................................13
Equalization ........................................................................13
Low Pass - High Pass Filters ....................................13
Shelving Filters ............................................................14
Peaking Filter ...............................................................14
Band Pass and Notch Filters ...................................14
3 – Setting Up the TASCAM Vocal Producer 15
4 – Names and Functions of Parts ...............16
Front panel ..........................................................................16
Rear panel ............................................................................18
5 – Operation ................................................19
Live or mixdown? ..............................................................19
Patching the TA-1VP into your system .......................19
As an insert effect using your mixer’s channel
insert jack(s) ..................................................................19
As an insert effect using two mixer channels ..19
With an instrument....................................................20
Live, Direct Microphone connection ..................20
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MONITORING ...20
Controls and Display Screens .......................................20
MASTER MODULE ......................................................20
MICROPHONE MODELER MODULE .....................26
AUTO-TUNE MODULE ..............................................28
Why set Scale notes to “Blank”? ...................................28
COMPRESSOR/GATE MODULE ..............................29
DE-ESSER MODULE ....................................................30
EQUALIZER/OUTPUT MODULE .............................31
6 – Get Creative .............................................34
Using the Auto-Tune Module .......................................34
Using Auto-Tune in Double Track Mode ...................34
Using the Microphone Modeler Module ..................34
7 – Appendix .................................................35
TA-1VP Factory Presets ....................................................35
The Presets ..........................................................................35
Realistic Mic Modeling Expectations .........................36
8 – Specifications ..........................................38
Dimensional drawing ......................................................40
Block diagram.....................................................................40
Level diagram .....................................................................41