Plug in the AC power cord into a wall outlet and press the POWER switch on the rear panel. The LCD screen should display a time readout at the top, a TRACK section in the top half, and a PLAYLIST section in the bottom half.
Plug in any XLR cables into INPUT 1 or 2, and plug in any ¼" instrument cables into inputs 3 through 8.
Plug in your headphones to the PHONES jack, located in the middle of the rear panel. Adjust the headphone level with the PHONES dial in the upper section of the top panel. A nominal level is usually somewhere between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock.
Hit the PLAY (DISPLAY) button, located just underneath the LCD screen, to the right of buttons F1 through F6. Then hold the Shift button and press F1 (SONG). This brings up the Song menu.
Press F2, which should have the word "NEW" above it on the LCD screen. If it doesn't, press PAGE (just to the left of F1) until it does, then press F2.
Press F1, which has the word "NAME" above it. To stick with the default, just press F5, with the word "WRITE" above it.
Check to make sure the "SampleRate" is 44.1k, the "Record Mode" is MTP and the two options below are set to off. If you need to make a change, use the cursor keys and the dial (both just to the right of the LCD screen) to navigate through and select these options.
Press F4, with the word "Exec" above it. The screen displays "Create New Song, Sure?"---hit the YES/ENTER button. The next screen displays "STORE Current?"---hit the YES/ENTER button again.
Press PLAY (DISPLAY), then hold down SHIFT and use the up and down cursor keys until the bold frame highlights the TRACK section of the screen.
Press F2, which should have the word "LM In" above it on the LCD screen. If it doesn't, press PAGE until it does, then press F2.
Press the FADER/MUTE button until the IN light just below it lights up, and bring up the master fader and all channel faders to the 0 dB position.
Press the FADER/MUTE button until the IN light just below it lights up, and bring up the master fader and all channel faders to the 0 dB position.
Press FADER/MUTE so the TR indicator below it lights up. Hold down the STATUS button above the fader of the track you wish to record to and press CLEAR (on the right side of the top panel).
HOLD down the REC button in the lower right of the top panel and press the same STATUS button from the previous step. This status button will blink red.
Hold down this blinking STATUS button and select the input source for this track by pressing the INPUT SELECT button (row of SELECT buttons just below INPUT dials). The INPUT SELECT button will now also blink.
Repeat the previous three steps until you've routed all of your inputs to tracks. You can double check the routing by pressing and holding any of the STATUS buttons until the INPUT ASSIGN displays on the LCD screen, where lines connect the top row (inputs) to the middle row (tracks).
Hit the REC button, which causes it to blink red. Press PLAY to begin recording.
Play through your song and hit STOP when finished.
Hold STOP and press the STATUS button of each track you recorded onto. They will stop flashing red and light up green.
Press ZERO in the transport controls to return to the beginning of the song, then press PLAY to begin playback. Adjust the fader and headphone levels as desired.