Bus recording Tascam 424 MK2

[briggsy]

Could some one please tell me what and when to use a bus recording.
Sorry I'm a bit of a newbie

Regards
Steve

[SN]

1) When you have stuff lpugged in all the inputs and you want to record a specific channel on another track without unplugging an replugging anything. eg. channel one on track 2. Then channel one on track 3, then channel on track 4. You pann channle one according the the bess of each track and record with the buss function.
this way channel one's input does not need to be unplugged and replugged into channels 2,3,or 4. Especially useful when other stuff are plugged into channels 2,3 and 4.

2) When you want to record many sources onto one track. ie. channels 1,2 and 3 onto track 1. ie2. channels 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and submix RCA inputs 10 and 11, onto tracks 1 and 2 (straight to L-R stereo).

What the Buss feature does that the Direct feature does not, is dissassociate the mixer's channels from the recorder's tracks.