424mkII - don't know how to put 3 tracks down to 1

[Casey Gallagher]

I bought a Tascam 424mkII second hand, and the guy didn't have a manual for it. I have worked out how to record a track on to 1, 2, and 3, but I can not work how to ping-pong them all down to track 4.I have spent ages fidling around but can't work it out.
If you know the solution I would very much aprieciate it. cheers

[Tim Brown]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Casey Gallagher:
I bought a Tascam 424mkII second hand, and the guy didn't have a manual for it. I have worked out how to record a track on to 1, 2, and 3, but I can not work how to ping-pong them all down to track 4.I have spent ages fidling around but can't work it out.
If you know the solution I would very much aprieciate it. cheers<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

While I personally have not used this machine, I've used several Tascam porta studios, and they all essentially worked in the same manner-each just had upgrades.


Put your 3 tracks in tape mode (so you can play and control them with the faders), and not "mic/line/input mode".
Adjust your levels.
Then set track 4 for record mode.
Make sure the other tracks are in the Tape position.
Also make sure that these are in "safe" mode-so that you don't record over these.
Hit play and record.

If the machine is working right-this should put all 3 tracks onto track 4.

Make up some crap tracks to practice with, to make sure that you don't reacord or possibly erase something that you want to keep.

Tim

[MM2]

I'm not sure, but you may also need to pan tracks 1 thru 3 hard right to record properly on track 4. [You may already know that in order to record on tracks 1 and 3, you need to pan the input left, while input to tracks 2 and 4 are panned right].

[england]

Yeah. Pan tracks 1 thru 3 hard right and set the input switches to 'tape' and set the "record function" switch on track 4 to 'buss r'. Have your faders on 1 thru 3 set, then hit play/record.

[El Barto]

Could ping ponging work with stereo recordings too (using an 8 track)? Say I have bass on tracks 1 and 2, panned left and right respectively, and drums on track 3 and 4, again left and right?