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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Appendix

Power does not turn on, operation not possible

■Power does not turn on

•Is the power cord connected to an AC outlet of the correct voltage?

•Is the POWER switch turned ON?

•If the power still does not turn on, please contact your Yamaha dealer.

■LCD display is dim or dark

•Use the contrast knob located at the lower right of the screen to adjust the contrast.

■Can’t use the [DATA/JOG] dial to control on-

screen parameters

•The [JOG ON] key may be on.

•Some parameters cannot be operated in certain states, such as while the recorder is running.

No sound

■No sound, or sound is too faint

•Are speakers or headphones connected correctly?

•Is your amp and other external devices turned on?

•Are you using connection cables with built-in resistors?

•Does the stereo output channel meter move?

•Is the stereo output channel fader raised? Is it turned on?

•The EQ gain may be set to an extremely low value.

•The dynamics processor may be set to an extreme thresh- old or ratio.

•Is an electric guitar connected to a MIC/LINE INPUT jack directly?

•Is the attenuator of the EQ screen or CH VIEW screen raised?

→Check the level (meter movement) in the METER screen.

→If you move the cursor to the INITIALIZE button and press the [ENTER] key in the CH VIEW screen View page, that channel will be initialized to default values that allow sound to be output.

→If DIGITAL IN is enabled in the TRACK screen, and no signal is being input to the DIGITAL STEREO IN jack, a message of “WRONG WORD CLOCK” will appear, and sound will not be output.

■Input sound is not output

•Is the signal from the external device being input?

•The connection cable from the external device may be broken.

•Are cables connected to both the MIC/LINE INPUT XLR connector and the TRS phone connector?

•Is the [GAIN] knob set to an appropriate level?

•Is the input channel fader raised? Is it turned on?

•The input channel may have been set to DIGITAL IN.

•When recording, is the recording-destination track fader (which adjusts the monitor level) raised?

→If you are recording, the sound of that input channel will not be heard during playback.

■Recorded sound is not output

•Has audio data been recorded on the recorder?

•Is the virtual track set to the track that was recorded?

•A recorded region shorter than 10 msec will not be played back.

•Tracks 1–24 will not play back if the AW2400 is in Stereo Track, Sound Clip, or Audio CD playback mode.

■Can’t play back the STEREO track

•Is the ST TR MODE turned on in the TRACK screen Ste- reo TR page?

■Metronome cannot be heard

•The metronome sound is normally sent only to the MONI- TOR OUT and headphones.

•The metronome will not sound while the recorder is stopped.

•In Sound Clip mode, the metronome will sound only dur- ing recording.

Can’t record, something is wrong with the recorded sound

■Can’t record

•Is there sufficient free space on the internal hard disk?

→You can check the remaining recordable time in the TRACK screen View page.

•The song may be protected.

•The stereo track may be in playback mode.

•Is the input signal routed appropriately to the recorder?

•Check the recording-source and recording-destination in the RECORD screen.

•Is CD/DAT DIGITAL REC set to ENABLE in the UTIL- ITY screen Preference page?

•Please read and understand the copyright warning (→ p. 7) before using digital input signals.

■Can’t record on the STEREO track

•It is not possible to record on the STEREO track while recording on other tracks.

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