User manual SONY ICD-UX523

[. . . ] You can direct jump Table of contents Recording files Utilizing your computer Troubleshooting Index GB  Table of Contents WARNING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Notice for users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Table of Contents Recording via Other Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Recording with an external microphone. . . . . 39 Recording from other equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Preparing the recorder Checking the Parts and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the Display Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Preventing Unintentional Operations (HOLD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Maintaining the Moderate Volume Level (AVLS) (For European models only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Recharging the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Index Playing Files Basic Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Stopping playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Other operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Display when playing back a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Changing the Playback Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Recharging the battery using a computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Recharging the battery using a USB AC adaptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Inserting a Memory Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Turning the IC Recorder On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Setting the Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Reducing noise in the playback sound and making the human voice clearer – the noise cut function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adjusting the playback speed – the DPC (Digital Pitch Control) function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Selecting the sound effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Selecting the playback mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Convenient playback methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Turning the power on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Turning the power off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Setting the clock after recharging the battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Setting the clock using the menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting a Recording Date from the Calendar and Playing Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Playing Back a File at a Desired Time with an Alarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Playback via Other Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Recording with other equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Setting the Language to Be Used in the Display Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Selecting a Folder, File, Tab, and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Erasing Files Erasing a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Erasing All Files in a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Selecting a folder and a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Selecting a tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Selecting the memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Editing Files Arranging Files in a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using a Track Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Moving a file to a different folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Copying a file to the other memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Recording Files Basic Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Monitoring the recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Stopping the recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Other operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Selecting a recording scene for each situation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Tips for better recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Changing the Scene Select settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Changing the Scene Select setting to the default values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Changing the Recording Settings. . . . . . . . . . 34 Adding a track mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Erasing a track mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Erasing all the track marks in the selected file at one time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Dividing a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Dividing a file at the current position. . . . . . . . . . 64 Dividing a file at all the track mark positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Changing a folder name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Changing a file name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Starting to Record Automatically in Response to Sound – the VOR Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Renaming a Folder and a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Protecting a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68  Listening to the FM Radio (ICD-UX522F/UX523F only) Tuning in an FM Radio Station. [. . . ] System Information Displays the IC recorder model name and the version number of the software. 93 About the Menu Function Tabs Menu items Settings (* : Initial setting) Table of Contents (FM radio)*1 FM Radio*1 ( p. 69) The IC recorder enters the FM radio mode. Notes  While the FM radio is activated, you cannot change memory media or select a folder. Before starting FM radio recording, select the memory media and folder you want to use to record the FM broadcast in advance.  You cannot record an FM broadcast in LPCM mode. When “REC Mode” is set to “LPCM 44. 1kHz/16bit, ” an FM broadcast is recorded in “MP3 192kbps. ”  During recording an FM radio broadcast, the Mic Sensitivity, VOR, LCF (Low Cut Filter), and noise cut functions are disabled. 72) Scans automatically for available frequencies. Execute: The automatic presetting is executed. Cancel: The automatic presetting is canceled. Sets the receiver sensitivity when listening to the FM radio. LOCAL: When there is interference or collapsing caused by a intense electric field around the transmitting antenna of the broadcasting station, etc. , select this setting. Note Index DX/LOCAL*1 ( p. 75) Select “DX” when the IC recorder reception status is not good due to a weak signal. *1 for ICD-UX522F/UX523F only 94 About the Menu Function Tabs Menu items Settings (* : Initial setting) Table of Contents (FM radio)*1 Scan Sensitivity*1 ( p. 76) Sets the scanning sensitivity when presetting FM radio stations. High(SCAN H)*: The scanning sensitivity is set to high. Low(SCAN L): The scanning sensitivity is set to low. During FM reception or recording, switches between the sound from the speaker and the sound from the headphones. Headphones*: The sound comes out from the headphones. Speaker: The sound comes out from the speaker(s). Index Audio Output*1 ( p. 77) *1 for ICD-UX522F/UX523F only 95 Utilizing Your Computer Utilizing Your Computer Using the IC Recorder with Your Computer When the IC recorder is connected to your computer, you can transfer data between them. Table of Contents Copying files from the IC recorder to your computer to store them ( p. 101) Copying music files from your computer to the IC recorder to play them back ( p.  102) Using the IC recorder as USB memory ( p. 104) You can store image data or text data stored on the computer temporarily in the IC recorder. Managing and editing files using the Sound Organizer software ( p. 105) The supplied Sound Organizer software allows you to transfer the files that you have recorded using the IC recorder to your computer to manage and edit them. [. . . ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 83 N Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Noise cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Noise cut level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 79, 84 P Pause recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]