[Vintage-Audio] Tascam Porta Ministudio 07?

[Sheldon Daitch]

I am not familiar with this piece of equipment, but I'll try a guess.

The higher end machines had separate play and record heads,
so if you were doing multiple track work, that is, using a track
already recorded and wanted to add an additional audio track,
you set up the machine to use the record head as the playback
head for the track already recorded.  If you used the normal
play back head, the newly recorded track would not be in
time synch with the older track, because of the physical
separation of the play and record heads.

This is assuming you wanted the two (or more tracks) to
remain as distinct tracks.  Obviously, if you are mixing
the old track material with new material to a new track,
then you don't use the synch mode.

Only a guess, tho.

Sheldon

Philip Atchley wrote:

> Roy et al,
> This Portastudio has a single RCA jack on the back labeled "Sync Out" and a
> panel mounted 3 position DBX slide switch labeled Off, On and Sync.  Not
> sure if that means the Sync position really means it's a DBX related
> function.  That's why I was trying to find out some additional information.
> Quite versatile, besides the 4 line/mic inputs it has on the front panel
> additional jacks for Phones, "punch in/out.  Jacks on the back for line
> output (all have this), monitor output, effects send, effects return (two
> returns), sync output and "Sub in".  More functions than I'll probably use
> in my simple guitar work etc.
>
> 73 from the "Beaconeers Lair".
> Phil, KO6BB
>
> > At 01:35 PM 3/23/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > ... a 4 channel high speed (3.75 IPS) DBX cassette recorder.
> > >The function that you refer to is called "Symul-Sync".
> >
> > Chuck,
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation.. I never worked on equipment with that
> system..
> > It makes sense.  In the film sound editing business, they mixed sound from
> > some tracks onto others.. or onto other tape/film altogether. The
> recorders
> > did have controlled ramp-up and ramp-down of bias to allow for smooth
> > pickup of recording..and you could record over a previously recorded track
> > without a click or thump.
> >
> > Roy
>
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