User manual SONY XR-MD100

[. . . ] The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. PRECAUTIONS Read the Operating Instructions carefully and completely before operating the unit. Be sure to keep the Operating Instructions for future reference. All warnings and cautions in the Operating Instructions and on the unit should be strictly followed, as well as the safety suggestions below. Installation 1 Water and moisture - Do not use this unit near water, such as near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sing, laundry tub, in a wet basement, swimming pool, or the like. [. . . ] To record from a CD, press CD and load the disc. To record from a radio broadcast, press TUNER/BAND and tune in to a station. To record from a connected source, press VIDEO/AUX and play. 4 Press REC/REC MUTE to start recording. When the selected function is CD, playback and recording start simultaneously. To stop recording, press . To pause recording, press (applicable when the source is TUNER or VIDEO/AUX). Sound adjustment during recording The output volume and tone of the speakers or headphones may be freely varied without affecting the recording. INSERTING BLANK SPACE Insertion of 4-second blank spaces may help you to locate the beginning of the track on other equipment. This unit can add 16 blank spaces only when the source is TUNER or VIDEO/AUX. 1 Press REC/REC MUTE during recording or while in recording pause mode. on the display flashes for 4 seconds and the tape runs without recording. After 4 seconds, the deck enters the recording pause mode. · , or MULTI JOG are also available to designate the tape length. 5 Press REC/REC MUTE to start recording The tape is rewound to the beginning of the front side the lead segment is played through for 10 seconds, and recording starts. When recording on the front (side A) ends, recording on the back (side B) starts. Recording and CD play stop simultaneously. To clear the edit program Press twice so that "EDIT" disappears on the display. To check the order of the programmed track numbers Before recording, press MODE to select side A or B, and press · MULTI JOG is also available instead of and . or repeatedly. Time on cassette tapes and editing time The actual cassette recording time is usually a little longer than the specified recording time printed on the label. This unit can program tracks to use the extra time. When the total recording time is a little longer than the tape's specified recording time after editing, the display shows the extra time (without a minus mark), instead of the time remaining on the tape (with the minus mark). · Recording is inhibited if the erasure prevention tab on either side of the tape is broken off. · The AI edit function cannot be used with discs containing 31 tracks or more. RECORDING (cont) pg. 14 PROGRAMMED EDIT RECORDING In the programmed edit recording function, the track can be programmed while checking the remaining time on each side of the tape as the tracks are programmed. The programmed edit recording will not start from a point halfway in the tape. [. . . ] PHONES (stereo minijack): accepts headphones of 32 ohms or more Cassette deck section Track format. . 4 tracks, 2 channels stereo Frequency response. . Normal tape: 50 Hz - 15000 Hz Signal-to-noise ratio. . 50 dB (CrO2 tape peak level above 1 kHz) Recording system. [. . . ]