SOURCE

FILE

STEREO

R

0dB

-20dB

 

L

 

MONITOR

AUDIO OUT

MIC ATTEN

 

OFF

ON

SINGLE

ALL

 

FLAT

 

OFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANC

11

PRE REC

REPEAT

 

12

 

 

 

 

LIMITER

OFF

ON

OFF

ON

ALC

MANUAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

INPUT LOCK

EDL PLAY

LEVEL CONT.

 

14

 

 

 

EDIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INPUT

A-B REPEAT

 

MARK

 

 

FLAT

 

11.

ANC switch

 

 

 

 

The ANC (Ambient Noise

 

 

 

Cancel) switch lets you

ANC

 

 

reduce ambient noise

before recording on the internal microphone or MIC inputs.

Ambient Noise Cancel positions do not change the memory used in recording. Examples of low ambient noise sources include: traffic, air conditioning hum and wind noise.

: Band pass position reduces the lows and highs and passes (records) the center (voice level) audio frequencies. This reduces the recording of high and low frequency ambient noise.

FLAT: No filtering applied.

: High pass position reduces low frequency ambient noise only.

 

OFF ON

 

12. EDL PLAY switch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The EDL PLAY switch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

turns EDL PLAY off or on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDL PLAY

 

MARK switch at OFF, or no marks were placed manually), playback is not available. Switch to OFF for playback.

Factory default: EDL PLAY switch at OFF.

 

 

 

LIMITER

13. LEVEL CONT. switch

 

ALC

 

MANUAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The LEVEL CONT(rol)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

switch lets you select the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEVEL CONT.

 

 

type of input level control.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MANUAL: At MANUAL, you control the input level with the REC LEVEL controls.

LIMITER: At LIMITER, peak sound levels that would distort the recording are limited.

ALC: At ALC (Automatic Level Control = Automatic Gain Control), the PMD671 automatically responds to changes in input level. If recording is quiet, the input level is increased. If recording is loud, the input level is decreased. This is a desirable feature when recording a meeting with several speakers. A speaker close to the microphone and/or with a loud voice will be automatically recorded at a reduced level and a quiet speaker will be recorded at an increased level. Both will be less likely to have their input missed.

ALC is usually undesirable when recording music (voice or instrument) because the transitions in input level may be audible in the recording. ALC can also make the recording ‘hissy’ by raising the level during quiet passages and recording ambient noise.

The REC LEVEL controls do not work when the LEVEL CONT. switch is set at ALC.

OFF: When the EDL PLAY switch is at OFF, PMD671 playback does not respond to EDL mark instructions.

ON: When EDL PLAY is ON, PMD671 playback follows EDL mark instructions regarding play-

INPUT

14. INPUT button

The INPUT button lets you select the audio input and audio channels for recording.

back order, skipping sections of recording on the memory card, or repeating a section of recording on the memory card.

Note:

If the EDL PLAY switch is at ON and there are no EDL marks on the CF card (recording was done with the AUTO

When the INPUT LOCK switch (a) is at OFF, press and release the INPUT button to tab through the input choices. When the desired input is displayed, switch the INPUT LOCK switch (a) to ON.

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