Tascam DM-24 manual

TASCAM TEAC Professional Division DM-24 Digital Mixing console The DM-24 Basics[...]

DM-24 SIGNA L FLOW ........................................................................................ 3 INPUTS ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 RETURNS ........................................................................[...]

DM-24 SIGNA L FLOW The first 24 cha nnels of the DM-24 can accept “INPUTS” or “RET URNS.” These assignmen ts are made on the I/O page. Us e the curs or keys to hig hlight th e virtual patc h cable t hen use th e data wheel to mak e the proper assignme nt. In this ex ample M /L 1 is an “input” an d TDIF1-1 is a “retur n.” Channels 25[...]

TDIF 3 or ADAT Once the pr eferred “ return” in terfaces h ave been selec ted, they can be assig ned to channel s 1-24 in gr oups of ei ght. For instanc e: Slot 1 to c hannels 17-24 TDIF 2 to cha nnels 1-8 ADAT to channels 9- 16 OPTIONS • IF-TD/DM ( TDIF I/O) $249 ( supported in versi on 2.0) • IF-AD/DM (ADAT ligh tpipe I/O w/ ADAT Sync (AD[...]

• The IF-CS/DM is a cascade car d. To casc ade two DM -24s, you must p ut one cascade car d in “SL OT 1” o f each DM-24. S ee the secti on on “cascadin g two DM-24s” f o r more inf o . • The MU-24 h as 26 meter s (24 c hannels pl us the stereo buss) and a large time code display . There i s a meter menu in the DM-24 th at prov ides acce[...]

avail able to use as ta pe returns. This pres ents a probl em. Her e are a few ways to deal w ith this scenario: Using AU X 1&2 as the tap e return path The DM-24 ca n use AUX 1&2 as the tape ret urn path for the first 16 channel s in a tracking si tuation for just this r eason. The way to handle this i s to link Aux 1 and Aux 2. This prov [...]

plugging this signal into the MX -2424 will register 6dB less th en if a “bal anced” signal w ere sent to it. To use this solution w ith other r ecorders w e recomm end that t he manu facturer is consulted as to w hat cable to use w ith thei r product. For a DA-78H R or DA-3 8 use ¼” to R CA cables : CU/SU302 6ft. CU/SU303 10ft. CU/SU304 13f[...]

AUTOM A TION The DM- 24 features v ery powerful, inter nal auto mation. No computer required . The inter nal autom ation of the DM-24 i s actually more powerful and easier to use then many large frame consoles used in pro fessional studi os. The follow ing mi x controls o f the DM -24 can be a utomated: • Fader lev els • Mutes • EQ settings: [...]

The idea b ehind t he automation is “pow er w ithout interfer ence.” W hen you’r e mixi ng, you w ant to be thinki ng about your mix not try ing to rem ember the 28 steps it takes to mak e the autom ation functi on. W ith the D M-24, as so on as the basic mix settings are made, a utomation c an be acti vated. When automati on is enabled, all [...]

On channel s 1-32 you can program a differe nt MIDI chan nel and MID I controller number for the fader , mute k ey and pan k nob. O n the mas ter lay er you can do this for faders and m utes only . This allow s the DM -24 to contr ol other d evices or other dev ices to contr ol the DM -24 vi a MIDI. Agai n, this uses the “audi o faders.” There [...]

output si multaneously . The control room an d studio out puts on the cascade slave coul d be used t o feed di fferent moni tors systems . Use the cascade mas ter for your standard near field monitors a nd studio s peakers, w hile the casca de slave coul d feed mid field speak ers and s mall comp uter speaker s. It is al ways nice to re ference w i[...]

• AES/EBU can be input or output i n DUAL LINE (HI SPEED w ill be supported in a future v ersion of firmware.) The IF-AE /DM AES/EBU o ption card supports HI SP EED in v ersion 1.1 1. HIGH SPEED c an send 2 c hannels of data at 9 6K on one A ES/EBU cabl e. The DM-24 has two AE S/EBU I/Os built in. DUAL LINE requires both jacks t o send two channe[...]