3 Making your first recording

3   Making your first recording

This section describes how to make a 4 track recording using the

Porta02. For this, we will assume that you are making a recording

of your voice on two tracks (1 and 2), using a microphone, and

recording a part of a stereo CD or cassette on the other two tracks (3

and 4). Make sure you know what you are going to say.

Start by making sure that you have all the equipment listed in 1.3,

 What you need to make recordings .

3.1

Setting up

1) Make sure all equipment is turned off.

2) Connect the 

LINE OUT

 jacks of the Porta02 to the 

AUX IN

jacks of the amplifier.

3) Connect the mastering recorder 

REC IN

 and 

PLAY OUT

 jacks 

to the appropriate jacks of the amplifier. See 1.4, 

 Connecting the Porta02  if you are not sure what you 

should be doing here.

4) With the 

INPUT 1

 fader at the 0 position, plug the 

microphone into the 

MIC/LINE 1

 jack. Do not plug anything 

into the 

MIC/LINE 2

 jack.

If the microphone has a switch, make sure this switch is off.

5) Plug the stereo headphones into the 

PHONES

 jack of the 

Porta02.

6) Turn on the Porta02, the mastering recorder, and the 

amplifier (in that order).

7) Set the amplifier's input source to 

AUX

 (or the name of the 

jacks to which the Porta02 is connected).

3.2

Getting ready

1) Clean the heads and pinch roller (see 1.2.4,  Cleaning the 

heads  and 1.2.5,  Cleaning the pinch roller ).

2) Insert a Type II (chrome) cassette. 

The tape should be towards the front of the Porta02, and the full spool 

should be on the left side. Put the non tape part of the cassette in first, 

and then push the tape (front) down into place

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