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TASCAM X-9 Owner’s Manual
Playing a song
When you have made connections as described in
“Connections” on page 10, you can start playing a
song.
With the program fader at its lowest level (0) and the
master fader also at 0, load a CD in the player, or put
a record on the turntable connected in the earlier step
(“Record turntables” on page 10 and “CD decks,
etc.” on page 10).
Cue up the CD or record using the cue functions as
described below (use headphones to monitor the
CUE output while the
CUE indicator for the program
with the record is lit).
Adjusting the output volume
Set the amplifier volume to less than full setting.
Bring the MASTER fader up to about the 7 mark, and
slowly bring adjust the program fader until the over-
all level is what you want.
Use the program meter to view the level of the pro-
gram signal, and the stereo
MASTER meters to check
the overall level of the signal fed from the X-9 out-
puts.
If the top segment of a meter ( 14 dB ) is lit for most
of the time, the sound coming out of the X-9 will be
distorted. You should therefore try to keep the level
so that the red segments of the meters are not lit all
the time.
You can set the time that the meters take to fall back,
as well as the time that they hold peak values, using
the
12Mr and 13Mp menus (see “Meter release time”
on page 19 and “Meter peak hold time” on page 19).
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We suggest this way of working to avoid possible over-
loading of the internal amplifiers, and distortion caused
by such overloading.
Cue (previewing sounds)
The X-9’s cue system allows you to preview a pro-
gram through headphones before playing it back
through the main amplifier system.
Use the controls as described in
“Headphones (connecting and
using)” on page 12 to select the
cue output to the headphones.
Press any of the program CUE
keys, the microphone CUE key,
the sampler CUE key or the MASTER cue key to lis-
ten to the cue signal for that source.
When one of these keys is active (that is, the source is
routed through the cue mix to the headphones), the
key is lit.
Remember that no monitoring of the cue signals is
possible if none of the
CUE keys is lit.
The programs and samplers, are monitored done pre-
fader (that is, moving the program fader or adjusting
the sampler
LEVEL controls has no effect on the
monitor signal level). On the other hand, the master
cue output is monitored post-fader (moving the mas-
ter fader affects the monitoring volume).
The microphone is monitored after the LEVEL con-
trol.
Use the CUE/MST headphone control to adjust the
balance between the cue and master signals in the
headphones.