Yamaha MT3X - RECORDING THE FIRST TRACK; Step 1: Channel-to-Track Assignment

RECORDING THE FIRST TRACK
STEP 1: CHANNEL-TO-TRACK ASSIGNMENT
The first step in making any recording is to assign the channel to which your instrument or other source is connected
to one of the recorder's tracks.
Depending on what you are recording, you might want to record a single instrument or other source to a single track
on the recorder, or you might want to combine several instruments or other sources and record them on a single
track. The MT3X offers two “channel-to-track assignment” methods that can be used individually or combined to give
you the track assignments that you need.
• Direct Channe!-to-Track Assignment
With this method, an instrument or source connected to
one of the mixer’s first four channels is fed directly to
the correspondingly numbered track of the recorder.
You can record a single track like this, or up to all four
tracks simultaneously.
For direct channel-to-track assignment, the REC SE¬
LECT switch of the channel(s) to be recorded must be
set to the “number" position (1, 2. 3 or 4). For example,
if the channel 1 REC SELECT switch is set to “1the
channel 1 signal will be sent directly to track 1 of the
recorder. This applies in the same way to all other
channels and tracks.
• Panned Channei-to-Track Assignment
The panned channel-to-track assignment method
makes it possible to assign several of the mixer’s chan¬
nels to a single recorder track, or single mixer channels
can be assigned to different track numbers.
Each of the REC SELECT switches has either an “L” or
“R” position. These correspond to the left (L) and right
(R) channels of the mixer’s output. If a REC SELECT
switch is set to “L," for example, any of the mixer’s six
channels can be assigned to the correspondingly num¬
bered track by setting its PAN control fully LEFT. You
could assign channel 1 to track 4, for example, by set¬
ting the channel-4 REC SELECT switch to “R” and the
channel-1 PAN control fully RIGHT.
The assignment shown in the diagram below is
achieved by setting the channel-4 REC SELECT switch
to “R,” and setting the PAN controls of channel 1, 2, 3
and 6 fully RIGHT. The channel-4 and channel-5 PAN
controls are set fully LEFT to prevent their signal from
reaching track 4 of the recorder.
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