oh please help this brazilian newbie

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Hi guys, my name is Daniel and I'm from Brazil. First of all, I'll ask you to excuse my english, I'm doing the best I can :)

I'm new to the home recording experience, and decided to buy something inexpensive to get used to micing, recording and mixing stuff, and later move on to something more professional equipment, so I bought an used Tascam Porta 07 (and here in Brazil it costs the same as an 424 mkIII in the US), and obviously it came without any user's guide, owner's manual or whatever it could help me learn how to use it. Since there's a lot of very nice people in this bbs helping newbies like me, I tought I could post some of my questions here.

Ok, and now for some questions:

1- Does anyone has info on this deck? I've searched the entire web (trust me) and it seems that some alien organization wiped out anything related to the porta 07. Am I going against God in a 'The Name of the Rose' kinda conspiracy?

2- I tried to mixdown some recordings to my computer (PIII 850, 128 Mb RAM, onboard soundcard) using SoundForge 6.0, but I got a very low volume sample from the track I tried to rec to the computer. Is that happening because my cheap onboard soundcard?
Is it possible to keep using this card, or do I really need to buy another card?

3- Which one is the best software for this kind of mixing and effects? I have the SoundForge 6.0 but it only works with 2 tracks (I guess).

4- The porta 07 has 2 switches labeled 'Record Function'. One of those has another label, 'Buss L', with three possible positions: 1, safe and 3. The other switch, 'Buss R', with 2, safe and 4. What the heck is this 'Buss' thing? I know L and R stands for left and right, but I don't know what is the function of these switches.

5- There's another switch labeled 'Monitor Select', with remix, cue and eff positions. What are those options for?

6- By the way, what does this 'cue' thing ? There's 4 volume-like knobs with labels 'Tape Cue', for each one of the 4 tracks.

7- What is this 'Zero Return' button for?

8- I was testing the deck, and recorded some guitar riffs into track 1, and then recorded an solo into track 2 while listening to track 1. I worked just fine, but it also bounced track 1 into track 2. How can I avoid this from happening?

Well, that's the biggest message I've ever posted on a bbs, excuse me fom my ignorance on the subject. Here in Brazil it's hard to find information on home recording, but I won't let it stop me from doing what I want.

Thank you all for the patience reading this badly written post, and I hope I get some of the answers to the questions above.

You guys rocks!

Daniel Sousa.
 
Que` Paso Sousa?

Check on Muttley's post in the Tascam Forum; he posted a site where you can get a manual for your gear, quite amazing really when I looked at the site.

So, you're beginning? Well, "Begin the Begine" and stumble with the rest of us as you come up to speed.

Green Hornet:p :D :cool: :p
 
Thank you for the tip, Green Hornet, but there is no manual for the Porta 07 in the link Muttley posted. I meant it when I said there is no information about the Porta 07 in the internet. I guess God will strike me with a lightning soon if I don't stop searching it :D

Jokes apart, I know I did a lot of questions in the post above. I believe that there's some gear with similarities to the porta 07, such as the porta 05, I guess.

Is there anywhere I could learn more about the lingo on the multitrackers? If I could know what are those terms I asked before, it would be easier to understand how it works.

Thanks again for the help, Green Hornet, and all the people who did read my answers!
 
As far as I know, Tascam has manuals they will sell you for every thing they ever built. Go to their site (we don't post there anymore) and communicate with their Parts Department.
 
i must've missed something somewhat important... what's with the whole lack of Tascam enthusiasm here now? I mean... the tascam forum's gone, etc etc etc... ?
 
It's just that they shut down their bbs for two months, promising great things to come. They came back with a new ugly website without the bbs and the free downloads of all the manuals for equipment made after 1998. The support they offered their loyal analog fans was gone. Sure, they still will sell you some parts and manuals for older equipment but that's all,
 
Derek, thanks for the tip. I did emailed Tascam a few days ago, and they gave the email for their brazilian representation, wich haven't answered me yet.

About the new Tascam website, they still have an area for the free download, but, as you said, just for equipment made after 1998.
 
just curious, where in brazil do you live? i am moving there in mid-january of 2004. to rio.
 
I live in Campinas, that's in the state of São Paulo. That's 6 hours by car from Rio de Janeiro, in the state of same name. Why are you moving to Brazil? Business? Rio is a great city. A little violent if you turn on the wrong corners, but that's the same in NY.

Hope you have a great time down here!
 
ahahahahahaha I've found it !!!!!!!!
I must be one of ten individuals in the whole world that seems to have this porta 07 manual.
 
my dad got a ministry job, now i think we might move to bellau horizonte
 
That's nice. Belo Horizonte is in the state of Minas Gerais, famous for exporting taxi drivers to NY (there's a lot of them driving cabs there:))
 
Hey Daniel...you are not alone...I also have a Porta 07 complete with manual. Have you found the manual you need? I think this is a pretty good deck for starting out...I am having a lot of fun with mine.....Brian in the middle of Canada
 
bthiesson, I was about to quit searching this manual, when some guy from the Nederlands (or Netherlands, I don't remember how it's spelled, sorry:)) photocopied it and sent me a pdf version.

I'm a complete newbie to home recording, so i guess the porta 07 can fit my needs for now. But when I realized it does not record all 4 tracks at once it disapointed me a little.
 
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