Tascam Digital Mixing Console TM-D4000 Owners Manual

4 - Module operations—Fader and cut groups
4–9
4.9Fader and cut groups
In shifted mode, this key brings up the 
GROUPING screen, allowing input channels to 
be assigned to fader and cut groups.
In this screen, each column represents an input chan-
nel (from 1 through 32). The two stereo input chan-
nels are also shown here.
There are eight fader groups and eight cut groups, 
shown as rows on the display. Each channel may be a 
member of one of each type of group (i.e. a channel 
can be a member of one...

4 - Module operations—Buss delay
4–10 
of modules in layers other than the currently active 
layer.
•to view Aux send and buss levels (see below).
Press the FADER POSITION key:
Note that there are two screens available. Press the 
FADER POSITION key to cycle between them.
Both screens also contain an on-screen representa-
tion of the stereo meters. This allows metering of the 
stereo output, even if the main hardware meters are 
being used for another purpose.
4.10.1Resetting faders to 0 dB
An easy way...

4 - Module operations—MODULE screen (miscellaneous)
4–11
4.11.1Global delay setting
Use POD 1 of the last row to set the value and copy it 
to all busses (right switch of POD 1) for the “global” 
buss delay:
Confirm the setting with the 
ENTER key or cancel 
with a cursor key.
4.12 MODULE screen 
(miscellaneous)
In the MODULE screen, a meter is shown to the 
right of the screen:
4.12.1Meter pickoff point
Immediately below the meter is a description show-
ing the “pickoff” point for the meter (
POST-EQ 
in...

 
 
 
5–1
 
5 - Monitoring
 
The monitoring facilities on the TM-D4000 allow the 
connection of both a control room (
 
CR
 
) and studio 
(
 
STUDIO
 
) set of monitor systems as well as the con-
nection of a 2-track analog recorder through dedi-
cated connections (digital 2-track recorders may be 
connected through the 
 
D IN1
 
 and 
 
D IN2
 
 inputs).
An integral talkback microphone is also provided, as 
is a line-up oscillator. The talkback may be routed to 
the slate or to the Aux 1-2 busses...

 
5 - Monitoring—2-track monitoring
 
5–2 
 
–10 dBV) corresponds to a reading of  –16 dB 
(relative to full-scale), which is represented 
here as  –16 dBFS). This factory value may be 
changed by authorized TASCAM service per-
sonnel only to either  –20 dBFS or  –9 dBFS. 
 
Contact your TASCAM dealer for details.
 
The top of the scale represents overload (over full-
scale). Unlike an analog meter reading of 0 or a 
“plus ” value, which are relative to a nominal signal 
level, digital overload results...

 
5 - Monitoring—SOLO 
5–3 
5.4.3 PFL level 
The level of the PFL signals is determined by the  
PFL LEVEL 
, controlled by the fourth POD 
rotary control. The maximum signal level is 10 dB, 
relative to full-scale. 
5.4.4 To clear all soloed channels 
Press and hold down the  
CLR 
 key of the numeric 
keypad  
[41] 
 and press any  
SOLO 
 key to clear the solo 
status of all currently soloed channels. 

 
6–1 
6 - Surround modes 
Because the TM-D4000 is capable of mixing to sev-
eral different surround modes, some of the operations 
and display screens are slightly different from the 
“normal”, stereo mode, as explained here.
Some of these operations are also explained in other 
parts of the manual, but are gathered here for easy 
reference.
In all cases where a surround mode is selected, the 
output busses are used to control the levels of the sig-
nals sent to the different channels of the surround...

 
6 - Surround modes—Monitoring issues 
6–2 
This facility allows the selection of a fader pattern 
that suits an individual way of working. 
6.2 Monitoring issues 
The main issue that affects surround mixing is that of 
monitoring. 
Because the TM-D4000 uses the buss outputs as the 
sources for the surround mix, and these busses are 
output in parallel to all the interface cards fitted in the 
expansion slots, it is possible to use an IF-DA4000 
analog interface card in one slot, and an appropriate...

 
6 - Surround modes—Modules in the surround mix 
 6–3 
ments are not shown, but it is possible to assign the 
modules to the surround channels:
The four buss pairs are replaced by two buttons:  
SRND 
 and (optionally)  
SUB 
. 
NOTE 
The  
SUB 
 button only has any meaning when  
the 5.1 surround option is chosen. 
When the  
SRND 
 button is “pushed” (on), the chan-
nel is routed to the busses for surround output.
When the  
SUB 
 button is “pushed” (on), the channel 
is routed to the sub channel.
In...

 
6 - Surround modes—Modules in the surround mix 
6–4 
screen. The screen below shows a stereo input in sur-
round mode:
Note that the “image” control is unavailable for these 
stereo inputs in surround mode, but either of the two 
stereo inputs may be selected as a mono input (using 
the on-screen buttons in the  
MODULE 
 screen).
To change the module to be edited, use the  
SEL 
 key 
of the channel to be edited.
Each channel is shown as a “dot” cursor on a plan of 
the current surround mode.
The...