Optimus 740 owner manual Tape Care Tips, Preventing Accidental Erasure, Erasing a Cassette Tape

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TAPE CARE TIPS

Preventing Accidental

Erasure

Cassette tapes have two erase-pro- tection tabs — one for each side. To protect a recording from being acci- dentally recorded over or erased, use a screwdriver to remove one or both of the cassette tape’s erase-protection tabs.

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If you want to record on a tape side af- ter you have removed the erase-pro- tection tab, place a piece of strong plastic tape over that side’s erase-pro- tection hole.

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Notes:

•Be sure you cover only the hole originally covered by the erase- protection tab.

•Removing the erase-protection tabs does not prevent a bulk eraser from erasing a cassette tape.

Erasing a Cassette Tape

If you no longer want a recording, you can record over it or erase it.

To erase a previously recorded sec- tion of a tape, simply record over it.

To erase the entire cassette tape, record silence by pressing TAPE and recording with no tape in TAPE 2.

To quickly erase a tape, use a bulk tape eraser (such as Cat. No. 44-232, not supplied).

Restoring Tape Tension and Sound Quality

After you play a cassette tape several times, the tape might become tightly wound on the reels. This can cause playback sound quality to deteriorate.

To restore the sound quality, fast-for- ward the tape from the beginning to the end of one side, then completely rewind it. Then loosen the tape reels by gently tapping each side of the cas- sette’s outer shell on a flat surface.

Caution: Be careful not to damage the cassette when tapping it. Do not touch the exposed tape or allow any sharp objects near the cassette.

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