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Bookie man

Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 09:44 am:

I want to know how i manipulate my recording.I've just got a Tascam portastudio 424,and play bass,guitar and ive got a drum machine. But i really havent got a clue on how i change/mix/manipulate the sounds.

Can I do this by using a boss delay pedal or do i need them big rackmounted things?

Theres an 'effects send' and 'effects' knobs but i dont know how to use this.Im an absolute beginner to the whole recording world. I read the basics page, but there isnt an 'aux' on my recorder, there is an 'effects send',but im still confused about everything .Could someone tell where i put the effects in and how it all works. Any comments on how to record some good dub on a 4-track portastudio are very welcome.

Thanks very much.

Neil C

Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 04:47 pm:

I'm not going to try to answer everything you might want to know - but you would just need to connect the effects send on your Tascam to the input of an effects unit (eg a boss delay) and the output of the effects unit to the effects return on the Tascam.
Your Tascam I expect will have an effects (FX) control for each channel (it will need to have if you want to dub)- that will determine how much much of whatever effect/s you are using will be mixed in with the original sound coming from that channel.
The effects send/return is basically the same thing as an aux.

Doing as I describe above, I think, would be a good first step to dubbing it up on your Tascam.
You don't need a big expensive fancy delay - a guitar pedal would do fine for you in your current situation (and may remain fine even in a more upmarket setup).

boofnpeng

Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 02:12 am:

The Tascam does not seem to have dedicated fx returns, so you will have to return your echo to one of the spare inputs, 5 or 6. I think you can also use the `effect to tape` to send a signal to a next effect, reverb, and you can return that into one of the spare inputs too.

Neil C

Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 02:11 pm:

I see, I've just looked at the manual. Boofnpeng is right.
The effect 1&2 knobs on each channel determines how much of that channel's signal goes out of the corresponding effects send output.
I would output from effect 1 send and you would need to return to channel 5 (or to channels 5&6 if you have and want to use a stereo output from your effect/s).

So to put it very plainly- You need to connect the effect 1 send to the input on your effect unit and connect the output from your effect unit to the '5/mono' input. Thus your connections are made.

There are other routing possibilities, but thats what I'd do if I just wanted to add delay.

Bookie man

Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 05:52 am:

thanks very much,i got it all working.

THANK YOU

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