About This Manual - Akai DD1500 User Manual

1 - INTRODUCTION

ABOUT THIS MANUAL

This owner's manual has been written to provide you with the information to get the best
from the DD1500. Although it hoped that the DD1500 is easy enough to use without
constant reference to this manual, please take the time to read it in order to understand
the system fully. The manual takes you through the machine from scratch, assuming you
have just installed it and you are using it for the first time.
This manual covers all basic functions and operation and, wherever possible, gives hints
and tips and application notes. However, because of the diversity of applications in which
the DD1500 can be used, it is not always possible to cover every application specifically.
As such, most descriptions of functions are fairly general unless, however, a certain
function has a specific use in a particular application.
It is assumed that the DD1500 is being used in recording, editing and syncing audio to
picture, the main application for which it was designed and it is assumed you have some
experience of the techniques involved in this field. Throughout the manual, we will use the
phrase "... to picture". This will refer to video or film with no particular bias. Of course, we
also realise that the system will be used without reference to picture (in radio drama for
example) but the functions described are equally applicable.
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