Tascam 424 mkii vs mkiii
I could not find the mkII manual on the site. You might try the mkIII manual which is here. Anyway, I was wondering about pretty basic drum recording techniques with a cassette 4-track.
It's possible it will record to the track's but I cant say for certain. I was re-reading my TapeOp Book from about a decade ago and got super-inspired to record my fuzzpop power trio on a Tascam 4-track, preferably a 424 mkII or mkIII once I get a hold of one (PLEASE answer your Craigslist replies, jerks.). Not exactly sure were the signal is sent but I am assuming it would just be sent through the master. Yes, the sub inputs would just be another set of channel input's. There's a pair of new Sub Input phono jacks that go directly to the master fader these let you hook up an external mixer, such as a submixer that controls a number of MIDI devices. You might end up using what is called an insert cable which take's the 2 1/4" mono connector's and then send's them to a 1/4" TRS connector which you will then need to get an adapter from 1/4" TRS to 1/8" TRS to fit in the headphone jack. The 424 MkII has four balanced XLR input jacks (even more than its big brother, the TASCAM 488 ), which makes hooking up to audio boards a snap. I would definately get an 1/8" stereo to 2 1/4" mono cord though so you can do the track's in stereo. I guess you could try using the headphone out and see what kind of signal you get. But yes youcan just convert the line out RCA's to 1/4" jacks to go into the Tascam for sure. IS the CD player fairly new? IF so that might be what that is, hard to tell but it sound's logical. Which is a digital conntection that supplies both the left and right channel's out of the Cd player. * The tape speed can be increased or decreased with the PITCH CONTROL dial in both playback and record, to match pitch or for special effects.Jame's, the single RAC might be a s/pdif conntection. * Two tape speeds offer HIGH for greater fidelity, and NORMAL for compatibility with standard cassette tapes. * REHEARSAL programs the 424 MKII to repeat a punch-in/out sequence as many times as you wish, and AUTO IN/OUT actually executes it on tape exactly as you "previewed" in REHEARSAL * REPEAT allows a section to played over and over between the MEMO 1 and MEMO 2 points. * A three-point autolocator (MEMO/LOC 1 and 2 and RTZ) lets the tape STOP or PAUSE at, or PLAY from preset points. The transport controls of the 424 MKII are microprocessor operated, allowing highly reliable functions that make the unit easier to use: With proper operating techniques, it is not necessary to leave a guard band between music and sync tone tracks because of the low crosstalk of the TASCAM heads. This ensures that the sync tones/code are recorded and played back without unnecessary processing.
#TASCAM 424 MKII VS MKIII CODE#
A special SYNC feature turns off the dbx on track 4 separately, making it possible to record and play back the MIDI sync tones or SMPTE/EBU time code without being affected by the dbx encode/decode.
The 424 MKII's dbx Noise Reduction virtually eliminates unwanted tape noise. The recorder has 4 tracks while the mixer has a stereo output however, using the DIRECT feature you can record on any or all of the 4 tracks at one time. The 424 MKII records on readily available standard (Philips) Compact Cassette tape, high bias Type II. The Tascam 424 MKII Portastudio is a 4-track "Multitrack Master" cassette tape recorder and a full-function mixer with 8 inputs/stereo outputs combined into a single workstation. You can use the 2 microphones at once or the 2 xlrs at once, no mixing the input types. Track record Tascam have released a large number of digital audio recorders, but like many companies has not been addressing the needs of the field. I have not used this unit, so the following analysis is based on the reference manual and promotional material. Up for auction today is a Tascam Portastudio 424 MKII. The much cheaper Tascam DR5 supports overdubbing as well as the previous MKii 2) While it has 2 microphones and 2 XLR ports it is only a 2 track recorder. Quite a number of people have asked me about the new Tascam DR-100 mkIII recorder.