Before You Start Recording on an MD

•It may be unlawful to record or play back copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright owner.

•When you record onto partially recorded MD, its contents are not erased or overwritten. The recording starts from the point following the last recorded track of the MD.

If you want to record on such an MD from the beginning, you have to erase its contents first (see “Erasing All Tracks —ALL ERASE” on page 55).

•When an MD is fully recorded, recording will stops automatically.

•The recording level is automatically set correctly, so it is not affected by the volume level. Thus, during recording you can adjust the sound you are actually listening to without affecting the recording level.

•While recording, you can hear sound mode effect and/or the AHB PRO (Active Hyper Bass PRO) effect through the speakers or headphones. However, the sound is recorded without these effects (see pages 14).

•You can make a digital recording from an audio CD onto an MD.

When selecting FM, AM, TAPE or AUX as the source, you can make an analog recording only.

•You cannot record more than 254 tracks onto an MD, even if there is still enough recording time remaining on it.

About the track marks

When playing an MD, you can move among the tracks. You can do this because there is a mark recorded at the beginning of each track enabling you to locate the track. This mark is called a “track mark” and the portion between two adjacent track marks is called a “track.”

•When using CD synchronized recording, a track mark is recorded at the beginning of each track. You cannot put a track mark manually.

•When recording from an analog source such as FM/AM broadcasts, no track mark is recorded on the MD. This means that, when playing this MD, the MD recorder will regard the entire recording as one track (track 1). You will not be able to select directly a song or navigate through songs.

However, if there is a blank of 3 seconds or more, the MD recorder will consider it as a blank separating 2 tracks and consequently put a track mark.

To put a track mark manually while recording an

analog source, press SET on the remote control at the place where you want to put a track mark.

To add a track mark after recording is over, you can

use the DIVIDE function (see page 52).

To avoid erasing important recordings

The recordable MD has an erasure prevention tab so that important recordings are not accidentally erased. When you finish recording or editing, slide to open the erasure prevention tab on the cartridge side surface. New recording or editing is now no longer possible. (If you try to do, “DISC PROTECTED” appears in the main display.)

To do re-recording or editing, return the tab to the closed position.

Erasure prevention tab

Recording/Editing	Disc protected:
possible	Recording/Editing
	not possible

If “PLAYBACK DISC” appears in the main display when you try to record on an MD

The MD is only for playback use, not for recording (see page 68).

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