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Microphone

The built-in microphone is located on the top of the Gmini™ 402 unit next

to the headphone jack. Make sure that you have selected Microphone

as the input source in the pre-recording Settings screen. The microphone

level is preset.

Analog Line-In

In order to record from a line-level audio source, you will need to use the

multi-connect adapter plug provided. This plug makes it possible to enter

a stereo audio signal (for example, from your stereo system or cassette

player) into the Gmini™ 402 directly. Make sure that you select the Analog

Line-In as the input source in the pre-recording Setup screen. Be careful

that the source audio is supplying a line level and not an ampliﬁ ed signal

(turning down the volume on the player will work if you are using the

headphone out signal of your audio device). An ampliﬁ ed signal will make

for a terribly distorted recording. You can also use a high quality pre-

ampliﬁ ed microphone, such as the one ARCHOS™ sells as an option.

Incremental Recording

While recording, you will notice the center function button labeled Next.

This allows you to create incremental recordings. That is, the current

recording stops and a new recording instantly begins. The

next recording has an additional number appended to its

name. Thus if you create multiple incremental recordings,

you might, for example, have ﬁ les names of REC0000_01, REC0000_02,

etc. This is good for recording old cassettes and old vinyl records. You can

click on the Next button during the blank space between each song. That

way, each song of the vinyl disk or audio cassette will be one single audio

ﬁ le.

5.3 Where is the Recording Saved?

The default location for audio recordings is the folder called Music. If you

click on the Music icon in the main menu, you will go to this folder. Notice

that the right function button is labeled Record. Each time you use this

button to record audio instead of the AudioCorder button on the main

menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder. For

example, let’s say you have a folder called

/Music/Voice/Lectures

. If you

go to this folder and then make a recording using the right function button

Record, you will set the default record location to this folder. Now, each

time you use the AudioCorder icon to start a recording, your recording will

be saved in the folder

/Music/Voice/Lectures.

5.4 Audio Editing

Audio ﬁ les (microphone recordings / analog recordings / FM Remote

Control (optional)) can be modiﬁ ed by deleting the sections you do not

wish included. If you would like to edit an audio recording, you have the

possibility to “crop out” the exact section of the recording you would like

to save. For example, you have recorded a lecture of 33 minutes and 22

seconds in length. You would like to cut out and save just one particular

important section from 12 minutes and 15 seconds to 21 minutes and 5

seconds. The diagram below illustrates the situation.

Desired audio section

00:00 (0min 0sec) 12:15 21:05 33:22

To keep just this section (cropping it), you will:

• locate this ﬁ le from the Browser mode

• Select Edit from the File menu in order to enter the edit mode

• In the edit mode, set the cut-IN point (12:15 in our example)

• Next, set the cut-OUT point (21:05 in our example – note that the

actual position will now be earlier in the ﬁ le as the ﬁ rst12:05 minutes

have been cut!))

• Save the edit