Tascam DA-78HR User Manual

5 - Basic operations

TASCAM DA-78HR

Press the

CLEAR

(

PRE ROLL

) key once more

so that the display shows

PO 0003

(

PO 0003

i.e. the post-roll time.

Since there is little point in setting pre- and post-roll
times to frame accuracy, you can only set these val-
ues to second accuracy.

The minimum values you can set are 5 seconds (pre-
roll) and 3 seconds (post-roll) and the maximum
value is 59 minutes 59 seconds for both.

Any punch operation from now will take your setting
for pre-roll and use it when locating the tape to the
punch-in point. For example, if your pre-roll time has
been set to 10 seconds (00:00:10.00), and the punch-
in point is at 00:06:03.12, the tape will locate to
00:05:53.12 when starting rehearsal or punch-in.

5.6.5 Rehearsing the punch-in

After you have set the punch points, and you have
located the tape to the pre-roll point, as described
above, you can rehearse the punch process.

Press the

RHSL

key so that the indicator lights

steadily.

This indicates that you are now in rehearsal
mode.

Press

PLAY

. The tape will start playing from

the pre-roll point.

At the punch-in point, monitoring will change
to source.

The

RECORD

key will flash, and the

REC

FUNCTION

indicator of any armed tracks will

light steadily. However, recording will not be
carried out.

At the punch-out point, monitoring will change
back to off-tape monitoring.

The tape will continue playing to the post-roll
point and then rewind to the pre-roll point.

Repeat the rehearsal process until you are sat-
isfied with the performance.

5.6.6 Interrupting a rehearsal or punch

recording

Very often while rehearsing a punch-in, you will not
want to run the tape all the way to the punch-out
point (an entry cue is missed, or a mistake is made
early on in the take). In these cases, the following
procedure applies to both rehearsal and punch
recording:

While the tape is running, press the

LOC 1

key

(there is no need to press

STOP

first).

The tape will return to the punch-in point,
minus the value specified in the punch-in offset
(5.6.4, “Editing the pre-roll and post-roll
times”).

Pressing

PLAY

will then re-start the rehearsal

or punch-in process.

• Pressing the

LOC 2

key will locate the tape to the

punch-out position minus the punch-in pre-roll
time.

• These functions are only operative when the

RHSL

AUTO IN/OUT

indicators are lit or flashing.

When they are off, the

LOC 1

and

LOC 2

keys

will

act normally.

5.6.7 Recording the punch-in

Make sure the tape is at the pre-roll point, and
press the

AUTO IN/OUT

key once.

The indicator will flash, showing that the DA-
78HR is in auto-punch mode.

Press

PLAY

. The tape will start playing.

At the punch-in point, the

RECORD

indicator

will light steadily, as will the

REC FUNCTION

indicators of any armed tracks. Monitoring
will change from off-tape to source and the

INPUT MONITOR

of any armed tracks will

light.

Recording will now actually take place. Any
recorded material which was previously on the
armed tracks between the punch points will be
replaced by the new recording.

At the punch-out point, the monitoring will go
back to off-tape (the

INPUT MONITOR

indica-

tors of armed tracks will go out), and when the
post-roll point is reached, the tape will rewind
to the pre-roll point.

The

AUTO IN/OUT

indicator will light steadily,

showing that the DA-78HR is now in replay
mode.

5.6.8 Replaying the punched material

To replay the punch-in, press the PLAY key.

Playback will start (the

REC FUNCTION

indi-

cators of the armed tracks will continue to
flash).

At the post-roll point, the tape will automati-
cally rewind to the pre-roll point.