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Title: Tascam DR-40 gain question?
Post by: F.O.Bean on February 24, 2017, 05:27:19 AM: Just wondering if you can adjust gain independently Left/Right? I want to run either my VMS02IB->DR-40 or 60v PFA->DR-40 for a super small 2 channel rig, and I need to be able to adjust each channel independently from the other one! If you can ONLY adjust gain with both channels at once like a "ganged" gain setup would be, when one knob applies gain to both channels, then I'm not really interested!

Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I've looked over the DR40 manual on the Tascam website a bunch and couldn't find a definitive answer!

Thanks in advance & Happy Taping!
Bean
Title: Re: Tascam DR-40 gain question?
Post by: Jonmac on February 24, 2017, 09:24:22 AM: Yes you can, it was a feature added in a firmware upgrade.
Title: Re: Tascam DR-40 gain question?
Post by: F.O.Bean on February 26, 2017, 12:50:49 AM: Quote from: Jonmac on February 24, 2017, 09:24:22 AM
Yes you can, it was a feature added in a firmware upgrade.

Excellent! Thanks for the reply! Is it easy to adjust the gain on each channel separately when recording? Also, once the levels ARE adjusted independently to where Left & Right are pretty evenly matched db-wise, is it possible to THEN gang the channels together and adjust both channels at the SAME time?

Sorry for all of the questions but the Tascam DR-40 page isn't exactly the most descriptive website page ever lol!
Title: Re: Tascam DR-40 gain question?
Post by: Jonmac on February 26, 2017, 08:24:22 AM: To select independent level control, you press the 'Rec Mode' button, select 'Source' and change it to EXT INDEP.

You use the 1/2 SOLO button to toggle between left and right level control.

As far as know, you can't gang the level controls while in independent mode.
Title: Re: Tascam DR-40 gain question?
Post by: F.O.Bean on March 01, 2017, 05:19:43 AM: Quote from: Jonmac on February 26, 2017, 08:24:22 AM
To select independent level control, you press the 'Rec Mode' button, select 'Source' and change it to EXT INDEP.

You use the 1/2 SOLO button to toggle between left and right level control.

As far as know, you can't gang the level controls while in independent mode.

Thanks for the info! I just read the whole manual and the FW Updates and figured that out lol! So now, I need to choose between the DR-40 and the DR-05 ;D
Title: Re: Tascam DR-40 gain question?
Post by: jcable77 on March 03, 2017, 05:26:56 AM: I love my lil dr-40. Sturdy, flexible, sounds decent. Good to leave at a board if your running somewhere else. And I've made some nice lil matrix's with the internals and board. My buddy has a dr-5 and it's great, def a lil smaller but the extra inputs are helpful for idk how much$ more but just an 1/8" input is limited.