424 MKIII question

[chout]

Can somebody describe to me how to record on tracks 5 & 6? This thing is new to me, and the manual doesn't seem to explain it.
Thanks

 

[songsj]

Looks as though the 424 MKIII is only a 4 track recorder so you do not have tracks 5 and 6 to record on. It does appear as though you have 6 input channels however. If you are using inputs 5 and / or 6 you will need to assign them / it, to one of the recorder tracks 1 thru 4. I don't own a 424MKII but my best guess
is that this is done either with an assignment button on the input channel or by panning the input channel left or right with one of the recorder channels 1 thru 4 armed to record.

Hope this helps

 

[Atwork]

songsj is right. The 424 mkiii is a four track recorder. 5 and 6 are channels only. To record through them you assign them to the correct track. There is an assignment button at the top of each channel.

 

[chout]

Thanks for the input. What are these channels most commonly used for?
I mean, if If want to record on track 1, I'll just record through the track 1 input, instead of assigning channel 5 to it, so I honestly don't grasp the concept of these.
Could someone please explain to me an example of when channels 5 & 6 would be useful?

 

[DigitalSmigital]

Easy!

You have 4 tracks to record onto. But you don't have to record all 4 tracks at once.

Let's say you have a four piece garage band with drums, bass, guitar, and keyboard player.

You could record all four onto one track, but what's the point of a 4 track recorder? You can turn the volume of the bass up, the guitar down, eq the keyboard seperatly, if you give each instrument a different track! Cool!

So why do they give you more inputs than tracks?

So that you can record the drum track with six microphones on the kit.

So that you can record the bass player on track 3 (even though he's plugged into channel two) and simultaneously record 5 vocalists to track 4.

That's what multi-tracking is all about.

 

[jaebaeli]

let me see if i get it

so...you play live while other tracks are playing and assign what you play live to one of those tracks--but it does have to be empty, right? This would be the track you're essentially BOUNCING stuff to? the 7 & 8 goes directly to the bounce destination track? do i have a handle on this?

I do have another question--when i mix down to PC through the soundcard, there's that fuzzy hotness on parts of the mixed recording--when i turn down output on the MKIII, i miss out on volume in the mixdown; when i turn it up, i get fuzz--is there a way around that?
thanks,
Jae

 

[DigitalSmigital]

when i mix down to PC through the soundcard, there's that fuzzy hotness on parts of the mixed recording--when i turn down output on the MKIII, i miss out on volume in the mixdown; when i turn it up, i get fuzz--is there a way around that?
thanks,
Jae

It sounds like you are not using the Line In jack on your soundcard, did it have a manual? That distortion you hear is not a good thing.

You must use the Line Outs on the 424, and the Line In on your computer. Accept no substitutes. Digital recording is much less forgiving than it's analog counterpart; too much signal will "clip" (distort, fuzzz) and too little will be unheard. Digital recording has much less headroom than when you record on tape.

"Headroom" is the ratio of the largest (loudest) undistorted signal (measured in decibels) possible through your soundcard and the average, comfortable signal.

First step is to make sure you are not using a mic input instead of the Line In jack.

Your first question was much more difficult to answer. No time now! But no, you didn't quite get that right! Try reading it again.

Later on!