Tascam DR-40 Owner's Manual

13 Press the . button to return to setting item 

MS 

DECODE

, and press the ENTER/MARK or / button. 

MS DECODE

ON

OFF

 (HOME) [8] 

  Press the RECORD [0] button to start dual recording. 

During dual recording, the recording screen appears as 
follows. 

In the input source display area of the recording screen, 
the input levels of the current input source and the dual 
recording are shown.

Dual recording allows two files to be recorded simultaneously. 
The name of the second file created by dual recording has 

“DXX” added to the file name of the ordinary recording. “DXX” 
shows the amount that the input level has been lowered.

1

: Set with the 

WORD

 item on the 

FILE NAME

 screen

2

: Recording file base number

3

: “S” is the source file  

4

: Assigned channels (“12” is channels 1/2 and “34” is 

channels 3/4)

5

: This dual recording file was recorded with the input level 

set to −12 dB. (This would be “D06” if recorded at −6 dB or 
“D10” if recorded at −10dB, for example.)

If the input level is less than –24 dB, dual recording might 

• 

not have the expected result. 
If 

• 

LVL CTRL

 is set to 

AUTO LVL

 or 

PEAK REDUCTION

, then 

the 

DUAL LVL

 cannot be changed.