Tascam Professional Digital Surround Monitor Controller DS-M7. 1 Owners Manual

Professional Digital Surround Monitor Controller
OWNER’S MANUAL
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Important Safety Precautions
IMPORTANT (for U.K. Customers)
DO NOT cut off the mains plug from this equipment.
If the plug fitted is not suitable for the power points in your home or
the cable is too short to reach a power point, then obtain an
appropriate safety approved extension lead or consult your dealer.
If nonetheless the mains plug is cut off, remove th
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of the plug
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…Follow all Warnings and Instructions marked on the audio
equipment.
1) Read Instructions — All the safety and operating instructions should
be read before the product is operated.
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Table of Contents
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1 – About the unit
Installing the DS-M7.1.................................6
2 – Parts of the DS-M7.1
Front panel...................................................8
Function keys .................................................. 9
Rear panel ....................................................11
3 – Connections
Connecting the console ..............................13
Connecting the tracking recorder ..............13
Connecting the mastering (stem) recorder14
A note on...

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1 – About the unit
The TASCAM DS-M7.1 is designed to help you 
manage the monitoring of mixes of surround sound 
projects.
All major surround formats are supported, from 
LCRS to 7.1.
Providing flexible switching and routing facilities 
between a digital recording console such as the TAS-CAM DM-24 and digital multitrack (tracking) 
recorders as well as the multitrack recorder being 
used to master the surround mix (the stem recorder), 
the DS-M7.1 can be used for monitoring of the mix...

1 – About the unit
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allowing almost every common industry format to be 
supported by the DS-M7.1.
Full calibration facilities are provided, with a built-in 
pink noise generator, to allow for quick, easy and 
accurate setup of the unit. Channel delay is provided 
to compensate for acoustic delay when surround 
speakers are used in a large space.
An analog or digital insert can be placed in the moni-
toring path, in order to hear the surround mix through 
a surround encoder. This is useful...

1 – About the unit
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Using the front panel as a remote control 
unit 
When you use the front panel as a remote con-
trol unit, you have the choice of using either the front 
or rear 9-pin D-sub connector. If the DS-M7.1 is to 
be installed in a machine room some distance from 
the mixing location, we suggest using the rear con-nector, where the cable may be routed more conve-
niently.
Follow the instructions given here (“Making up a 
remote control cable” on page 38) when making up a...

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2 – Parts of the DS-M7.1
Front panel
The part of the front panel of the unit which houses 
the display and controls can be removed and con-
nected via an appropriate cable, up to 20 m (60 ft.) in 
length by turning the captive thumbscrews at the top 
of the panel counterclockwise. Note that the front panel is retained by the thumb-
screws, and when it is removed from or replaced on 
the main unit, care must be taken to match the retain-
ing hole on the front panel with the retaining...

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Function keys
These keys all have two functions: the unshifted 
function, as shown by the label above the keys, and 
the color-coded (to match the 
SHIFT key) shifted 
function, as shown by the lower label. The shifted 
function is enabled when the 
SHIFT indicator is lit.
4STATUS/INPUT The STATUS key brings up 
the Status screen, where the settings relating to the 
master status of the system can be viewed (but not 
changed).
As the 
INPUT key, it is used to...

2 – Parts of the DS-M7.1
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ITEST Used in setup to turn the internal pink 
noise generator on and off. See the Setup Guide for 
details.
JDOWN MIX/MONO Switches between the 
selected surround format and the currently-selected 
downmix mode (the downmix mode is selected using 
the 
SYSTEM function key).
When pressed together with the 
SHIFT key, this key 
downmixes directly to mono from any surround for-
mat.
KBASS MGT Turns the bass management 
function on and off (settings are made with...