Audio recording tracks
Analogue camera/recorder audio recording tracks
Many analogue camera/recorders have the facility of recording four audio tracks. Often two of these tracks are recorded on the longitudinal tracks and two tracks are encoded as an audio frequency modulation (AFM) signal and are recorded in the same area of the tape as the video information. These tracks can only be recorded at the same time as the pictures. They are designated as tracks 3 and 4 and are of superior quality to the conventional longitudinal tracks, 1 and 2.
Access to tracks 3 and 4 will depend on the model of the camera in use. The simplest of cameras have only two audio inputs with the signals from track 1 and 2 being automatically routed to tracks 3 and 4 respectively. ...
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