Sony PCM-R500 Things You Should Know Before Recording, Lead-in area, Absolute time codes, 12EN

Advanced Recording Operations

Things You Should Know Before Recording

The difference between a blank section and a sound-muted section

The deck distinguishes between two kinds of silent sections, which are respectively called a “blank section” or “sound-muted section”.

For accurate recording of absolute time codes

•If the tape is blank, make sure to start recording from the beginning of the tape.

•Use the Record Muting function (see page 14) to insert spaces between tracks. Do not advance the tape with the PLAY ( or FF ) button.

•To start recording from the middle of a tape, use the End Search function (see page 14) to locate the end of the recorded portion. This will prevent the creation of blank sections.

Lead-in area

Blank section

This is a section on which no signal has ever been recorded.

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Sound-muted section

This is a section on which a signal has been recorded but at a level that is not audible.

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When the deck is loaded with a new cassette tape and it detects the leader tape, the deck can create a lead-in area depending on the menu setting as shown in the figure below. “BB” appears in the display for about 1 second at this time. The lead-in area can be inadvertently erased on another DAT deck if you press the REC rbutton to start recording from the beginning of the tape without closing the cassette holder first. To prevent this, press the OPEN/CLOSE

6button to close the cassette holder before you start recording.

For details on selecting the automatic creation of the lead-in area and the frequency of the signals to be recorded, see “BB-WRT” and “BB-FS”on page 25.

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Important

Make sure no blank sections are created while you are recording. The existence of blank sections within recorded material will make search operations using the PREVIOUS =/NEXT + buttons impossible or destroy the continuity of the absolute time codes.

Absolute time codes

The absolute time indicates the elapsed time from the beginning of the tape. Once recorded, the absolute time codes cannot be re-written.

If “EMPHASIS” appears in the display

The deck is recording a digital signal with emphasis (in the higher frequencies). The recording will also contain the same emphasis.

If the deck is left in recording pause for more than 10 minutes

Recording pause will be released automatically and the deck will stop for the sake of tape protection. “SOURCE” will appear in the display of the PCM- R500.

To resume recording, press the REC rbutton. The deck will change to recording pause.

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