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The first thing that I need to do with the machine is obviously, to turn it on. There's
a power switch in the back here; now you're on. You've got a lot of different options,
as far as playback, and recording, and whatnot. The first thing, for any kind of vocals or
acoustic guitar you're going to need a microphone and an XLR cable, which we have here. The
machine itself has two XLR inputs on the back; a left and a right, so you can just plug that
in, beginning with the left. If you look here at each track; one, two, three, and four,
each track is designated to a left and a right. Track one would be a left, Track two would
be a right, track three would be a left, track four would be a right. So, there's that portion.
For monitors, what I've brought with me... You need RCA, which are your video cables
to a quarter inch RCA connector, which run back into the back of the monitors here. There's
a splitter on this one, so you got a left and a right. The other apparatus that I brought
here is just a CD burner. That would be for after everything is recorded, and you want
to mix down, and dump it to another medium. If you want to do that, you can do it to a
CD, you can do it to a computer, you can do it to pretty much anything. The one thing
is when this tape is recorded, and you pop it into a tape machine, it actually records
and runs at a faster rate than a normal cassette. So once it's recorded on here if you try to
listen back on a normal tape player, it's just going to be too fast. You have to actually
mix it down, and then it gets into the right time and speed for playback where you can
listen to everything.