The 25-pin balanced I/O connectors on the ADDA card exactly match those on
the back of Tascam's DAx8 recorders. This means you can buy readily-available
snakes, usually available with TRS or XLR ends. The Tascam decks use Japanese
ISO threads on the connector hold-down screws; I haven't checked the ones on the
DA7, but they're probably ISO too. Hosa provides two types of hold-down screws
with their DA88 snakes: ISO and SAE (US) threads.
Analog inputs 9-16, which have TRS jacks, also can accept mike-level signals.
You just need an XLR-TRS adapter: a simple connector change is all you need, so
don't bother with one of those transformer-based XLR-to-unbalanced adapters.
They cost more and might affect the sound.
If you choose to feed line-level signals into Analog inputs 1-8, be sure
to turn off Phantom Power! Having 48VDC coming back into some device's output
isn't nice at all.
Don't use Scene Memory 00 to store a scene you want to keep.
It's overwritten with the
Start Scene when you begin recording automation.
Plugging in headphones doesn't mute the monitor outputs.
The meter bridge display matches the screen.
When you change the metering position in the circuit (pre-eq, pre-fader,
post-fader), the bridge and screen displays agree. The bridge also usually
follows the fader-layer selection made on the mixer---or you can manually
choose a layer on the bridge.
Word Clock settings are not part of Scene memory.
It appears that the automation doesn't record AUX Send on/off events, only
level changes. I think you can get around this by using the Event Edit window
to change the event type from something else to an AUX on/off.
The automation only records Delay on/off and Dynamics on/off events, not the
actual parameters (e.g. delay time, threshold, ratio, etc).
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