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HOW TO

An Introduction 

to Multitrack 

Recording from

Summary of Contents for US-122

Page 1: ...HOW TO An Introduction to Multitrack Recording from...

Page 2: ...you have no prior ex perience with recording We know what it s like becauseTASCAM has introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the world of multitrack recording over the last thirty years And you...

Page 3: ...dea for a new pattern of chords comes up You simply plug your guitar intoTrack 1 hit record and play the pattern for a few min utes represented by the notes in track 1 of the drawing below This is cal...

Page 4: ...tracks Don t worry if you don t com pletely understand these differences yet it will become clear when we explain each product What route should you take TASCAM pioneered the concept of the personal...

Page 5: ...ed TASCAM Portastudios combine the mixer and multitrack in a single unit A Pocketstudio adds MIDI instruments and a microphone plus effects processors Computer systems may add a built in CD recorder E...

Page 6: ...rtastudios have better sound quality because of dbx noise reduction and faster tape speeds If you plan on getting together with friends to record several instruments at once the 414 mkII or 424 mkIII...

Page 7: ...tice because there is a lot of potential built into this little under 500 device From the outside it looks some what like a small 4 track recorder POCKETSTUDIO 5 4 track digital Pocketstudio Up to 9 s...

Page 8: ...vides a headset mic and can run on batteries so you can work on lyrics and melodies while you re walking down a country road New songs don t always fit into pre established beats keys and arrangement...

Page 9: ...multitrack recorder mixer Let s look at that next The Pocketstudio has 100 built in preset backing arrangements selectable by category in this case Rock 1 and style 60s Hrock an abbreviation of 1960s...

Page 10: ...start recording When you need no com promise sound quality OftheTASCAMproductsdescribed sofar the788leadsthepackinsound 788leadsthepackinsound 788 quality OurcassettePortastudiosare good and thePocke...

Page 11: ...ng in a personal computer That s where the next category ofTASCAM gear comes in comes in This LCD screen shows how you change the EQ tone on a channel of the 788 There are 3 bands of EQ Low Mid and Hi...

Page 12: ...rectly from the keyboard itself live If you re not a keyboard player but you do understand basic harmo nies and music theory a computer sequencer will let you enter notes one at a time placed exactly...

Page 13: ...a way of connecting between two different things Need to get audio into or out Steinberg s Cubasis a basic digital audio workstation sequencer program that ships free with theTASCAM US 122 US 224 and...

Page 14: ...esponding faders on the top panel of the US 224 and US 224 and US 224 428 For ex ample up to 8 with CubasisVST and as many as 64 with some DAW programs It doesn t matter that the US 428 has only 8 phy...

Page 15: ...assles that not everyoneenjoysdealingwithsuchas optimizingtheharddrive software conflicts crashes viruses updates etc When you first start out it may take a while before you get all the bugs out of a...

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