Timer-Controlled Playback and Recording

Connecting a commercially available timer to your audio setup lets you wake up to your favorite cassette tape, or start recording at specified times.

Refer to the illustration below, and connect your audio components.

AC concent

Timer

Audio source

(To make a timer-controlled recording of a radio program, set your tuner as required.)

Amplifier

(Set the input/output selectors and others to the proper positions.)

 

At

At

Signal flow

playback

recording

 

time

time

This cassette deck

 

 

Timer-Controlled Playback

1.Connect this unit and stereo system to a commercially available audio timer.

2.Set the power switch of all components to ON.

3.Load a prerecorded cassette tape in TAPE I or ll.

<You can also insert tapes into both decks. In this case, TAPE I starts first.

4. Set the REV MODE switch to the required position.

<To let both decks play continuously, set the REV MODE switch to the “p” (CONT PLAY) position.

5.Set the DOLBY NR switch.

6.Set the TIMER switch to the PLAY position.

7.Set the audio timer to the required start (power on) and stop (power off) times. When this setting is completed, the power to all components will be switched off.

When a preset start time is reached, power will be supplied and playback will start automatically.

<Playback automatically starts also by simply pressing on the POWER switch of this deck. When you don’t use the timer, set the TIMER switch to the OFF position.

<Playback always starts from side “A”.

Timer-Controlled Recording

(Example: Recording a broadcast program)

1.Connect this unit and stereo system to a commercially available audio timer.

2.Set the power switch of all components to ON.

3.Load a recordable cassette tape(s) in TAPE I or ll (or both decks for continuous recording).

4.Set the REV MODE switch to the required position.

<For continuous recording on both decks, set the REV MODE switch to the “p” (CONT PLAY) position.

5.Set the DOLBY NR switch as required.

6.Tune in a broadcasting station to be recorded.

7.Press the RECORD button of the deck to be recorded to set the deck to the record-pause mode.

8.Adjust the recording level.

9.Set the TIMER switch to the REC position.

10.Set the audio timer to the required start (power on) and stop (power off) times. When this setting is completed, the power to all components will be switched off .

When the preset start time is reached, power will be supplied and recording will start automatically.

<Recording automatically starts also by simply pressing on the POWER switch of this deck. When you don’t use the timer for a while, be sure to set the TIMER switch back to the OFF position to prevent accidental erasure of your important tape.

<Recording always starts from side “A”.

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