Yamaha MT2X Owner's Manual - Page 19

n MULTITRACK RECORDING PLAN YOUR RECORDING A clear plan is essential before you begin multitrack recording. If you begin cold, without regard to all the steps involved, you may "record yourself into a corner" by running out of available empty tracks, missing the chance to add effects at the proper points, losing control over the final stereo positioning of the instruments, and creating the need for more ping-pong and mixdown recording operations than really necessary. Although you can perform ping-pong and mixdown operations without limit, a certain amount of noise and sound degradation results during these operations. It's best to hold pingponging down to 1 or 2 operations in order to achieve good sound quality. So before you start, plan your recording carefully - what order the parts will be recorded in, what instruments will go on which tracks, how and when effects will be used, when recorded tracks will be ping-ponged, and what sort of end result is desired. The recording process of the example we will explain in this section is illustrated on page 16. - Signal route when recording drums - RECORDING THE DRUMS The drums will be recorded on track 1. In recent years, drum machines and rhythm machines have made an appearance, with Yamaha coming out with the highperformance RX-series. In this example we'll use an RX-series Digital Rhythm programmer to record a high-quality drum track. The "L" and "R" stereo outputs from the rhythm programmer are fed to input channels 1 and 2 of the MT2X, and these are mixed down onto track 1 of the tape. The Yamaha SPX90 Multi-effect processor is an ideal way to add live-sounding reverb to the drums. The SPX90 is connected between the MT2X AUX SEND and stereo AUX RTN jacks. Input signal Effect signal Recording signal Signal displayed by the meter Monitor signal Meter 1 Output L q Output R 1 ST OUT AUX RTN Effect OUT 1-1 IN 17