Kolpak DA-98 manual Front Panel controls

2 – Front Panel controls

[1]Power switch

Turns the power to the DA98 on and off. When the DA-98 is turned off, settings will be retained in memory (see 14.2, “Memory backup”).

[2]Tape counter and status indicators

The tape counter gives the time in hours, minutes, seconds and frames.

The status indicators show the current status of various DA-98 functions. The legends of these indicators are abbreviated for reasons of space.

Here is a list of their full meanings, together with the pages on which the functions are more fully described:

Legend	Meaning	Page
PB CONDITION	Playback condition	14-1
ABS	Absolute tape time is being	10-1
	used as the time reference
REC INHI	Recording is inhibited (the	6-2
	cassette’s write-protect tab
	is set)
TC	Timecode time is being	10-1
	used as the time reference
OFFSET	Machine offset is in opera-	9-2
	tion
TRACK COPY	Shows that the DA-98 is in	8-9
	TRACK copy mode
PULL UP/DN	Shows pull up or down for	10-4
	drop-frame synchronization
TAPE TC	Lights when the DA-98 is	10-2
	reading timecode from the
	tape
TC GEN	Lights when the internal	10-6
	timecode generator is gen-
	erating
DELAY	Lights when one or more of	8-4
	the tracks is delayed
VARI SPEED	Lights when the DA-98’s	8-5
	vari speed function is
	enabled
SHTL MUTE	Shows that the shuttle mute	8-6
	function is in operation
EXT TC	Lights when the DA-98 is	10-2
	receiving external timecode

Section 2 – Front Panel controls

[3]Tape loading slot

Only use Hi8 ME or MP tapes as specified on page 1-4. The DA-98 will automatically eject all other tapes.

WARNING

Do not use a tape which has been used for record- ing video. Always use either new tapes or tapes which have been used in a DTRS recorder.

[4]EJECT key

Ejects any loaded cassette. A cassette can only be ejected when the transport is stopped.

[5]Display screen

This 20-character by 4-line LCD screen shows the menus and the parameters that can be set in the menus.

[6]FORMAT/Fs indicators and switch

The FORMAT indicator shows that a tape is being formatted. The 44.1KHz and 48KHz indicators show the sampling frequency currently in use.

The FORMAT/Fs switch controls the formatting of tapes and allows selection of the sampling fre- quency used for recording (see 6.1, “Formatting a tape” for full details).

[7]REF LEVEL (reference level indicators)

These LEDs are used to indicate three standard reference levels: –16dBFS, –18dBFS and –20dBFS. For full details of this, see 8.7, “Refer- ence levels”.

[8]Peak meters

These 15-segment peak meters show the input level or the recorded signal level, depending on the monitoring mode currently in operation (see 7, “Monitoring modes”).

NOTE

When using digital recording equipment, there is no headroom above the 0dB mark and no tape sat- uration is possible. Any signal which causes the “OVER” segment to light will cause audible dis- tortion. For this reason you should take care not to let recording levels exceed this level.

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