Special Features
Fast-Forward/Rewind
To rapidly advance or rewind the tape, press 
or 
. To stop the tape, press STOP (
). When the tape reaches the end, the cassette deck auto- matically stops.
Pause
To temporarily stop Deck 2 during playback or recording, press PAUSE (
). To restart, press 
, 
, or 
.
Note: You cannot pause while
Blank Skip
To have the cassette deck automatically
Tape Counter
As you play or record a tape, the tape counter advances for the tape side facing you or decreases for the tape side facing away from you. At the beginning of a tape or selection, press RESET to reset the counter to 0000. You can then use the tape counter to quickly locate a specific sec- tion on the tape.
The deck can also show the elapsed playing time (in minutes and sec- onds) since you reset the time. To switch between displays, press TIME/ COUNTER on the deck you are using. (The time does not advance when you
Automatic Search Music System
The automatic search music system (ASMS) lets you quickly locate a desired selection on a cassette tape. It searches for the blank space before a selection and automatically stops just before playback begins.
ASMS operates only during play. If the cassette deck is stopped, first press 
or 
.
•To skip to the beginning of the current (or an earlier) selec- tion:
Press 
or 
—whichever
or 
indicator.
To skip to the beginning of an earlier selection, repeatedly press the button.
• To skip to the beginning of the next (or a later) selection:
Press 
or 
—whichever
or 
indicator.
Note: If you press 
(or 
) more times than the number of selections
on the side you want to search, and have not set REV MODE to 
, the search continues to the other side.
ASMS might not operate as expected if:
•The pause between selections is less than 4 seconds long.
•The overall recorded volume level of a selection is very low.
•The noise level between selections is very high.
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