English 5 Battery indication Operating Instructions Shows approximate battery condition. While charging the rechargeable battery, this indication shows the charging condition. Looking at the controls 6 Sound indication The numbers are keyed to the illustrations Lights up when Digital Sound Preset is in the Japanese text (pages 11 to 13).
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The display window of the remote menu functions control SOUND Selecting “SOUND1”, 1 Track number display “SOUND2,” or “SOUND 2 Character information display OFF” (Digital Sound 3 Disc indication Preset) (page 84). 4 Alarm indication 5 Play mode indication PERSONAL Entering or erasing the 6 Battery indication disc information in the...
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BPreparing How to use the control on the remote control Getting started! See the illustrations in the Japanese text See the illustration in the Japanese text (page 15). (pages 16 and 17). Play/AMS/FF/REW: Turn or turn and Charge the rechargeable battery before hold the control towards .
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BMD recording Notes on rechargeable battery • If you press x/CHARGE immediately after charging has completed, charging will begin Recording an MD right away! again. In this case, press x/CHARGE to stop the recorder because the battery is See the illustrations in the Japanese text already fully charged.
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To stop recording, press x. Notes After you press x, the recorder will • If the power supply is disrupted (i.e. the automatically turn off in about 10 seconds battery is removed or becomes exhausted or (when using batteries) or about 5 minutes the AC power adaptor is disconnected) (when using AC power adaptor).
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BMD playing Remove the Press x, then slide OPEN to open the lid. Playing an MD right away! You can turn off the beep sound. To go backwards or forward quickly See the illustrations in the Japanese text without listening, press X and flip and hold (page 21).
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BVarious ways of Recorded Same as the Adjusted sound level source. automatically. recording You can also You can also adjust it adjust it Connecting digital (optical) manually manually. and analog (line) inputs (Digital REC The recorder selects digital or analog input level according to how the sound source is control).
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Note Before synchro-recording, be sure to make If you temporarily stop a recording operation digital connection and insert a recordable by pressing X, a new track mark will be MD. Note that track marks are added at that point where you pressed X automatically marked at the same positions again to resume recording.
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To start recording from the current Adding track marks point. automatically at specified Select “From Here” in step 2. intervals (Auto Time Stamp) Notes See the illustration in the Japanese text • If you start recording while the recorder is in (page 28).
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Adjusting the recording level Setting the clock to stamp the manually (Manual recording) recorded time See the illustration in the Japanese text See the illustrations in the Japanese text (page 29). (page 32). To stamp the date and time on the MD When you record, the sound level is when you record, you first need to set the adjusted automatically.
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(pages 33 and 34) operation ends. “NO TEXT” appears at this time if no By connecting the recorder to a Sony disc name information exists in the portable CD player that supports Joint Text CD. In this case, the operation ends (the CD text copying function) (D-E990, without copying the disc name.
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BVarious ways of Creating a Program (Program play) Press the jog lever (L) while “PGM” playback flashes in the display at step 2 of “Selecting a play mode.” Changing the playback order Flip the jog lever (L) to select a track. Press the jog lever (L) to enter a track See the illustrations in the Japanese text number.
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Notes on program setting. Factory settings of the Digital Sound Preset • All program settings are lost when the disc is removed from the recorder. Factory settings of the Digital Sound Preset • If the recorder is stopped and left inactive are the followings: for 5 minutes in the middle of a •...
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Notes Storing the settings for indi- • The settings for up to 20 discs can be stored. vidual discs (Personal Disc Any settings stored afterwards will replace Memory) the settings for the least used disc among the See the illustrations in the Japanese text •...
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BEditing recorded tracks Erasing a whole disc You can edit your recordings by adding/ See the illustration in the Japanese text erasing track marks or labeling tracks and (page 44). discs. Premastered MDs cannot be edited. You can quickly erase all the tracks and data of the MD at the same time.
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Erasing a track mark Moving recorded tracks See the illustrations in the Japanese text See the illustrations in the Japanese text (page 45). (page 46). When you record with analog (line) input, You can change the order of the recorded unnecessary track marks may be recorded tracks.
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Repeat step 4 and enter all characters Labeling recordings of the label name. Press down the jog lever (L) for 2 See the illustration in the Japanese text seconds or more. (pages 47 and 48). The track or disc is labeled. You can name tracks during playback, Labeling a track during playback discs during stop, and both during...
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Labeling a track or a disc during Turn the control towards . or towards N> to select a letter and recording press x to enter. Press DISPLAY for 2 seconds or longer The selected letter stops flashing and during recording, turn the control the cursor moves to the next input towards .
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Press X repeatedly until the first Storing phrases frequently phrase stored in the phrase bank used in labeling (Phrase Bank) appears in the display. Flip the jog lever (L) repeatedly. See the illustration in the Japanese text Flipping the jog lever (L) causes the (pages 50 and 51) phrases stored in the phrase bank to appear one by one in sequential order.
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On the remote control Searching by the first letter of a phrase When labeling a track or disc, pull and Storing phrases while labeling turn the control towards VOL + or Do the procedure “Labeling on the towards – to move the cursor to the remote control”...
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BOther operation Turn the control towards . or towards N> until “ON” flashes in the display, and then press x. Setting the alarm (Melody , lights up in the display. Timer) Turn the control towards . or towards N> to select the elapsed See the illustrations in the Japanese text time.
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It is preferable to use the recorder on house When using a 100% fully charged recharge- current when recording for a long time. able battery. When using a Sony LR6 (SG) “STAMINA” Battery life alkaline dry battery (produced in Japan). When recording (JEITA (Unit: approx.
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BAdditional information MEM OVER : You started recording with the recorder receiving continuous vibration. Put the Messages recorder on the stable place and start recording again. If the recorder cannot carry out an NO COPY : operation, error messages may flash in the You tried to make a copy from a disc that display window as follows.
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TR FULL: You tried to record more than 254 tracks. TrPROTECT : You tried to record over or edit a track which has been protected from being recorded over*. * Track-protected MiniDiscs — Some MD recorders will let you protect individual tracks from being recorded over.