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Step Four: To prepare for a recording, press the Record Button 7r. The Record Indicator P will flash, and the word BUSY will briefly appear in the Information Display Y. When the display returns to the track and
Step Five: Once the source material is playing, start the actual recording by pressing the Play/Select Button Ój. The Record Indicator P will stop flashing and the Information Display Y will begin to show the running time of the recording and the track data. Depending on which mode of track increment has been selected as described above, track numbers must be increased manually or they will be added automatically. Regardless of which mode has been selected, a track may be added at any time by press- ing the Track Increment Button !n.
NOTE: If there is a pause in the playback signal for more than five seconds for digital recordings or 10 sec- onds for analog recordings, the CDR 26 will stop the recording. Also, when the Pause button is pressed during a recording, the track number will increase by one num- ber and the recording will stop and must be restarted by pressing the Play/Select Button Ój. When the recording is finished, press the Stop Button (v.
Unlike conventional analog tape recorders, the
CDR 26 does not require level setting when record- ings are made from a digital source. Although the Level Indicator J will operate, this is only informa- tive and the level may not be changed or adjusted. However, when you are making a recording from an external analog source such as a cassette recorder or the analog output of a receiver or preamp, you should adjust the input levels using the Record Level Control *. Adjust the levels so that the blue/white segments of the display are almost all lit, and the red segments flash only occasionally. If the OVER Indicator J is constantly lit, the recording will be distorted and produce unacceptable quality.
To stop the recording, press the Stop Button ( v. The recording will automatically stop if it takes more space than is available on the
Step Six: At the end of a recording, a BUSY message will appear briefly. The unit will then return to normal operation. Remember to finalize the disc after recording so that it may be used in other players.
Finalizing CD-R and CD-RW Discs
Finalizing is a simple process that completes the recording of a disc so that it may be used in other players. When a recording is finished, a disc must be finalized. Once that is done, a
Once all recording is completed on a disc, make cer- tain that it is placed in the Record Deck % to be finalized. If the disc has just been inserted into the deck, the CDR 26 will first read the Table of Contents data before displaying the number of tracks and the total time of the disc in the
To finalize the disc, first press the Finalize Button # o. FINALIZE will flash in the Information Display Y and the Record Indicator P will light. Within eight seconds, press the Play/Select Button Ój and the FINALIZE message will stop flashing and immediately be replaced by a TOC WRITE message, followed by a
Unfinalizing and Erasing CD-RW Discs
Unfinalizing a
To keep the material that is already recorded on a CD- RW disc but to add an additional track and erase sin- gle tracks, you must first unfinalize the disc. To do that, place the
To unfinalize a disc, first press the Erase Button @s. UNFINALIZE will flash in the Infor- mation Display Y and the Record Indicator P will light. Within eight seconds, press the Play/Select
Button Ój and a TOC Erase message will appear in the Information Display Y followed by a
Erasing an Entire
To erase the entire contents of a
sso that DISC ERASE flashes in the Infor- mation Display Y and the Record Indicator P lights. Depending on whether or not the disc has been finalized, you may have to press the Erase Button @s a second time to display the DISC ERASE message. Within eight seconds, press the Play/Select Button Ój and a DISC ERASE message will appear in the Information Display Y followed by a
Erasing a Single Track
The individual tracks on a
To erase the last track on a disc (remembering that it must first be unfinalized), first press the Erase Button @s so that 01 TR ERASE flashes in the Information Display Y and the Record Indicator
Plights. Within eight seconds, press the Play/Select Button Ój and the 01 TR ERASE mes- sage will stop flashing and will be followed by a three- digit time indication (e.g., 0:03). The time indication part of the message is the start of a countdown clock that will tell you how much time is remaining in the
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