2 Parts of the Porta02

1.3

What you need to make recordings

Apart from the Porta02 itself, you will

Some monitoring equipment (some 

need:

kind of amplifier and speaker system). 

Some kind of stereo mastering 

Headphones, if you intend doing any 

recorder to produce the stereo record 

work with microphones. These will 

ings. This can be a cassette recorder 

avoid acoustic feedback ( howl 

such as the TASCAM 102Mk II or an 

round ) when recording. Additionally, 

MD recorder such as the TASCAM 

headphones are sometimes useful 

MD301. A recorder which does not 

when panning tracks on mixdown, as 

have recording level controls is not 

you can hear the precise position of 

suitable for use as a master recorder.

each track. 

You will also need RCA (pin or 

Of course, you will also need some 

phono) cables to connect the Porta02 

kind of sound source to record (instru 

to other equipment.

ment or microphone, etc.).

1.4

Connecting the Porta02

1) Make sure all the equipment is 

You can listen to the Porta02 by selecting

turned off.

the amplifier's input source to be from the

terminals to which you connected the

2) Connect the 

LINE OUT

 terminals of 

Porta02 (

AUX

 or 

VIDEO

, etc.).

the Porta02 to the amplifier, using 

a pair of terminals on the amplifier 

When you have mixed down and you

such as 

AUX

 or 

VIDEO

.

want to listen to the mixed tape, you

should select the mastering recorder as

NOTE

the amplifier's input source.

Do not use any terminals marked 

PHONO

 or 

intended for record decks. These are connected 

to a special circuit inside the amplifier which 

Left

Right

makes them unsuitable for anything except 

speaker

speaker

record decks.

3) Connect your mastering recorder 

to a set of four 

TAPE

 terminals on 

To AUX IN

the amplifier (two for 

REC

 and two 

Amplifier

for 

PLAY

). 

TAPE OUT

PLAY OUT

to

You may be using an integrated system in

to

REC IN

LINE OUT

TAPE IN

which the mastering recorder and ampli 

Porta02

fier are built into one enclosure. In this

Mastering recorder

case, you do not need to follow step 3.

2   Parts of the Porta02

This section gives an explanation of the

they do.

different parts of the Porta02, and what

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