Teac HS-P82 Quick Start Guide - Manual (Page 30)

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Use the Aux Outs as a means of grouping these “excess” microphones.
Generate reference tone in your mixer to zero VU level on an analog board, or appropriately lower on a
fully digital unit; and read the corresponding levels on the TASCAM. They should read around –20dB.
If the line level input to the TASCAM reads too low, you can adjust it using the trim knobs on the
recorder or by going to the System Setup screen and selecting a different Ref Level.
Use the Channel Setup screen to rename your TASCAM tracks for easy identification, such as: Mix,
Boom1, Boom2, Sink (location of a planted mic), Joe, Mary, and so on.
On Channel 1, which represents the live mixdown, you want to send its output over to the 2MIX master
LR tracks. If it is a dual mono mix, go ahead and adjust the pan pot so that the single track mixdown can
be recorded at slightly offset levels on both master LR tracks. If you are recording a discreet 2-track
mixdown from your mixing panel, then go ahead and send each of them respectfully to only L100 or
R100.
Otherwise, use your external mixing board as you normally would. Connect your boom operator to an
Aux Out or Comm Out, connect your wireless monitoring system (for the Director, Script, et al) to their
Aux Out, and so on.
Remember, use the trim/gain pots on your mixer to adjust the output level for the iso’s being sent to
the TASCAM. Use the faders to open, close, and adjust the levels of each mic in your live mix. Very often,
an actor’s lavalier might not be used in the mix, but will still be present in its entirety on the iso track,
should the editors want to access it in the future.
Note that it is beyond the scope of this users guide to explain to the novice all of the basic
functions of portable mixing panels and how they are used for film and video production. This
guide assumes that you are already familiar with the workings of whichever make and model of
the particular external mixing board that you intend to use with the TASCAM recorder.