Sony MXD-D1 manual Digital Recording and Analog Recording, Track Marking

Recording on MDs Recording on MDs

Notes on Recording

The MD allows you to digitally record and play back music with the excellent audio quality that approaches the digital sound of CDs. In addition, because MDs are opto-magnetic discs, they are free from problems such as stretching or becoming tangled like ordinary cassette tapes. The recording method is also different from that used with cassette tapes, so you can write track numbers and edit the recordings.

Digital Recording and Analog Recording

This unit uses the following recording methods, depending on the sound source to be recorded or how the unit is connected to the sound source.

Digital recording

When recording from the CD player section, the MD deck section records a digital signal in the form of a digital signal.

However, if you select sound sources to be recorded with REC SOURCE SELECTOR, the recording method will automatically become analog recording.

Analog recording

If you select sound sources to be recorded with REC SOURCE SELECTOR, the MD deck section converts an analog signal into a digital signal and records the

Track Marking

Track marking is essentially the writing of track numbers while recording. By writing track numbers at specified points, you can quickly locate those points afterwards using the Automatic Music Sensor function. The method of writing track numbers differs, depending on the sound source being recorded. You can also write track numbers manually.

MD track numbers (TOC)

In an MD, all of the information on track numbers (track sequence), the starting and ending points of tracks, etc., are recorded in an area called the “Table Of Contents” (TOC) that is managed apart from the music. As a result, not only can you instantaneously find the start of a track, but you can also quickly edit recorded tracks simply by changing the TOC information (see pages 30 to 37).

For example, with a cassette tape, erasing a track entails re-recording the track with no sound from the start. With an MD, you can delete a track simply by overwriting the information in the TOC.

When recording from a CD digitally

The MD deck section automatically marks track numbers in the same sequence as the original CD. However, if recording is paused, the portion recorded up to that point is counted as one track, so if recording is started again, the track number increases by one.

digital signal. Even if you record from the CD player section, the signal is converted to an analog signal and is then converted back into a digital signal.

For example:

•When recording from audio equipment (a cassette deck, DAT deck, etc.) connected to the LINE (ANALOG) IN jacks (LINE is selected.)

•When recording from the CD player section, and CD is selected with REC SOURCE SELECTOR (CD is selected.)

•When recording the sound through a microphone (MIC is selected.)

•When recording while mixing sounds from a microphone and CD, etc. (CD and MIC are selected.)

MD recording and the Serial Copy Management System

Since the MD deck section uses the SCMS (Serial Copy Management System), MDs recorded through the digital input jack cannot be used to make copies digitally onto other MDs (see page 42).

Track number

Original

Track number

Recorded

MD

1	2	3	4
A	B	C	D

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1	2	3	4
A	B	C	D

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