Parts of the Porta02

clockwise to 

MIC

 for any channel which

When the 

PHONES MONO

 switch is

is recording a microphone.

pressed, these controls will have no effect

on the output from the 

PHONES

 jack.

Instruments such as electric guitars pro 

duce a signal which is between 

MIC

 and

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REC FUNCTION switches 

LINE

 levels and the 

TRIM

 control should

(1 and 2)

therefore be somewhere between fully

These switches control where the signals

clockwise and fully counter clockwise.

coming into the 

MIC/LINE

 jacks will be

See 3.3,  Setting the level  for full details

recorded. For both switches 1 and 2, the

of how to adjust the 

TRIM

 controls for dif 

center position is marked as 

SAFE

. When

ferent input sources.

a switch is in this position, no signal will

be recorded on tape. However, you can

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POWER indicator

still listen to the signals coming into the

This yellow light is lit when the Porta02

MIC/LINE

 jacks and view the levels on the

is connected to the power supply and

meters.

switched on.

When set to a number (

1

 or 

3

 for channel

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Tape counter and reset 

1, or 

2

 or 

4

 for channel 2), the signals

button

input to the channel will be recorded on

The tape counter allows you to note dif 

the track whose number has been set on

ferent parts of the tape and locate to

the switch. This is called  assigning  or

them. Press the reset button to reset the

 routing  channels to tracks.

counter to  000  at any time (we suggest

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Channel meters (1 and 2)

that you only do this at the beginning of a

Each channel has a set of four LED indi 

recording).

cators which show the level of the signals

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OUTPUT LEVEL controls

sent to the 

LINE OUT L

 and 

R

 jacks.

Exactly what is metered depends on the

These controls change the levels of the

REC FUNCTION

 switch settings, but gen 

four tape tracks in the 

LINE OUT

 and

erally, they display the signals at the 

MIC/

PHONES

 outputs. When one of these con 

LINE IN

 jacks, and when the input chan 

trols is turned fully counter clockwise,

nels are set to 

SAFE

, the meters show the

the tape track corresponding to that con 

off tape signals, whose levels and pan

trol will not be heard in the 

LINE OUT

 and

positions are set using the 

OUTPUT

PHONES

 outputs.

LEVEL

 and 

PAN

 controls. 

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OUTPUT PAN controls

The best level for any input signal is

These controls change the position of the

when an averagely loud part of the signal

four tape tracks in the stereo 

LINE OUT

lights the red 

0

 indicator, and the 

+6

 indi 

and 

PHONES

 outputs. When one of these

cator (also red) is only lit by the loudest

controls is turned fully counter clock 

parts of the signal. See 3.3,  Setting the

wise, the sound of the corresponding tape

level  for details of how this should be set

track will appear to come from the left,

up.

and when turned fully clockwise, it will

appear to come from the right. When in

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Channel faders (1 and 2)

the center position, the output will appear

These faders are used to adjust the level

equally from both the left and right. 

of the signals coming into the 

MIC/LINE

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