TEAC 2488neo 2488neo Owner's Manual - Page 55

7 − Recorder 6 When you change a value, the values on the top line will start to blink and will continue to blink for a few seconds. 7 Press YES/ENTER while the values are blinking to set the value, or PLAY to start immediate playback at that value. Also, if you do not press any keys or turn the dial for a few seconds, the values stop blinking, and the new time value that has been set becomes the current playback position. Repeat You can repeat playback between the IN and OUT points by pressing the REPEAT key so that the indicator lights. Repeat recording is handled using the auto punch facility (see "Auto punch operations" on page 55). Setting the repeat interval On a tape recorder repeating a section, there is a delay while the tape rewinds. The "instant rewind" of a disk recorder can give you no time to prepare your fingers, take a breath, etc. ready for the next take. The 2488neo allows you to set a time between reaching the OUT point and starting to replay from the IN point again: from 0 seconds to 9.9 seconds. If you press the NO/EXIT key (or the STOP key) while the values are blinking, the time value will be reset to the previous value before you started to edit it. 1 Press and hold the REPEAT key so that a pop-up screen appears. Auto punch operations Punch operations allow you to start and stop recording at predefined points, and these can be automated, as described here. When auto punch recording begins, playback starts at preroll point some time before recording is due to start, the punch-in point is reached, and recording starts. When the punch-out point is reached, recording stops, and playback continues until the post-roll point. In addition, when you perform an auto punch recording, during the pre-roll period, you hear what has previously been recorded, together with the signal source; during the punch recording itself, you hear the signal source alone; and for the post-roll period, you hear the previously recorded material and the signal source together. The 2488neo allows all of this to happen in rehearsal mode as well as in an actual recording mode. The rehearsal mode allows you to simulate the punch recording, both to practise the actual take, and also to check punch points before recording actually begins. 2 Use the dial to set the interval. Pressing YES/ ENTER returns to the home screen. You can also use the repeat function together with the auto punch operations, allowing you to make repeated rehearsals of a punch section, as well as repeated takes of the same section (multi-takes) or when you are recording, repeated recordings can be used as multi-takes. With multi-take recording, you can choose the best recording after recording many takes, one after the other. 55 TASCAM 2488neo