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D00410300A
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DA-45HR
Digital Audio Tape Deck
OWNER’S MANUAL
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Important Safety Precautions IMPORTANT (for U.K. Customers) TO THE USER DO NOT cut off the mains plug from this equipment. This equipment has been tested and found to comply If the plug fitted is not suitable for the power points in your with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to home or the cable is too short to reach a power point, then Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed obtain an appropriate safety approved extension lead or to provide
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS CAUTION: "Note to CATV system installer: …Read all of these Instructions. This reminder is provided to call the CATV system installer’s attention to …Save these Instructions for later use. Section 820-40 of the NEC which provides guidelines for proper grounding …Follow all Warnings and Instructions marked on the audio and, in particular, specifies that the cable ground shall be connected to t
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Table of Contents Table of Contents 2.5 Rear panel..........................................16 [33] DIGITAL (AES/EBU) INPUT/OUTPUT.16 1 - Introduction to the DA-45HR [34] DIGITAL COAXIAL...............................16 1.1 Features.............................................6 [35] WORD IN and THRU (AUTO TERM)...16 1.2 Unpacking and inspection ...............6 [36] CONTROL I/O.......................................16 1.3 Installation of the tape deck ...........
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Table of Contents 4.8.2 Writing the title to tape......................27 [60] SINGLE PLAY ...................................... 28 4.8.3 Checking a title ..................................27 [61] REPEAT ............................................... 28 4.8.4 Deleting a title ....................................27 5.1 Remote control transport keys ....... 28 4.8.5 Copying and pasting a title...............27 [62] SKIP keys............................................. 28 [63] MEMO
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1 - Introduction to the DA-45HR The DA-45HR Digital Audio Tape (DAT) deck is 1.3 Installation of the tape deck referred to throughout this manual as “the tape deck”. The tape deck may be installed in most studio-type Please make a note of the different sections of this environments, but to maintain optimum performance manual to assist you in locating the function you and to maximize the life of the tape deck, the envi- need. The index should also be of use in helping you
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1 - Introduction to the DA-45HR Fingerprints on the tape may cause wear and damage tions using the DISPLAY [24] key or the error dis- to the tape deck heads. play menu (3.19, "Viewing points at which block errors have occurred"). DAT cassettes can only be loaded and unloaded when the tape deck is switched on. Do not leave cas- 1.5 Making connections settes in the deck when the deck is switched off. Always store DAT cassettes in their plastic cases to p
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1 - Introduction to the DA-45HR the word clock master for a digital audio WARNING setup, any word clock slaves should receive the clock through the digital audio signal. Do not attempt to use the tape deck with any remote control unit except one designed especially for use with this tape deck. 1.5.4Making control connections The optional RC-D45 remote control unit may be The CONTROL I/O connector is for use with suit- connected to the REMOTE IN jack, using the 5 m ably
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TASCAM DA-45HR 9
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2 - Parts of the tape deck Above the tape counter in the display are two bar- NOTES graph peak level meters which show either the level of the input signals, or the level of the signals As well as providing details of the settings recorded on tape, depending on the current status of made with switches, etc., this section also the transport. provides the information necessary for basic operations of the tape deck. Although the Other
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2 - Parts of the tape deck When the tape deck is in record ready mode, as men- [5] RECORD MODE switch tioned above, turning the DATA dial [20] allows the Use this switch to choose between HR(24BIT) and selection of a program number other than 01, STANDARD. The HR(24BIT) setting records with meaning that this recording will start at the selected 24 bits of resolution. The STANDARD setting will number, and subsequent programs will be wr
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2 - Parts of the tape deck [9] ANALOG INPUT selector switch Repeated presses of these keys will move the tape forwards or backwards by the appropriate number of When the INPUT switch [7] is set to ANALOG, this programs (pressing the skip forward key once will switch is used to select between UNCAL and CAL. move the tape to the beginning of the next program, etc.). UNCAL means that the analog signal source works at an uncalibrated nominal level which is neither While the tape is locating
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2 - Parts of the tape deck If all clock connections are in order, the display will [15]PLAY key show ANALOG in, AES/EBU or Use this key to start playing when the tape is stopped COAXIAL. The peak level meters will show the or paused, or to start recording when the tape is in signal levels received through the selected inputs. record pause mode (see below). In the case of the latter two digital options, the sam- The indicator above the key will light when the tape pling frequency (either 44
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2 - Parts of the tape deck the RECORD indicator will flash, and all input to NOTE the tape will be muted. After a number of seconds (defined in the menu RecMut function—see 3.4, If the DATA dial is turned by mistake, either "Record mute time"), the tape deck will enter the leave the tape deck alone for five seconds to record ready mode (the record and pause indicators cancel the operation, or press the STOP key. will both be lit). Pressing and holding the key for a few seconds will 2.4 Comm
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2 - Parts of the tape deck • If titles have been recorded on the tape (see 4.8, [22]CHAR "Character editing (titling)"), CHAR is shown on If characters have been recorded on the tape as a tape the display, and the characters comprising the title or program title, pressing this key will allow the tape are shown on the display (here, the word “TAS- deck to display these characters, scrolling across the CAM” is used as the title): display, as the START ID containing the title is ABS played b
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2 - Parts of the tape deck [29]LOC 1 the menu system (see 3.7, "Digital out word length"). The format of data received (AES/EBU or SPDIF) is Pressing this key will locate the tape to the first mem- automatically detected. ory location (set with this key in shifted mode). If the tape is playing when this key is pressed, the tape will [35]WORD IN and THRU (AUTO TERM) resume playing when the location is reached, other- wise it will stop. These BNC connectors provide an input for an exter- nal wo
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2 - Parts of the tape deck [37]REMOTE IN [40]UNBALANCED ANALOG inputs This 3.5 mm jack is used to connect the optional RC- These RCA connectors provide unbalanced inputs at D45 remote control unit. a nominal –10 dBV level. The nominal impedance of these connectors is greater than 50 kΩ . Do not use this jack to connect any remote control unit other than one designed especially for use with [41]UNBALANCED ANALOG outputs the tape deck. These RCA connectors provide unbalanced outputs [38]~ IN
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3 - Menu functions The menu facilities on the tape deck allow common 3.3 Auto ID time settings to be made. Repeated presses of MENU [28] will cycle through the different menu items listed here in the order pre- AtID-T 2.0sec sented here. When the AUTO ID function is enabled (AUTO ID Repeated presses of the DISPLAY [24] key when [26]), signals which exceed the level set in 3.2, the tape deck is in menu mode will display the differ- "Auto ID level" will automatically start the recording ent
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3 - Menu functions In the STANDARD mode, any dither settings made 3.6 Digital output format are applied to the signal as it is recorded. The triangular (Tri.) setting reduces noise more Format AESEBU 2 effectively than the rectangular (Rect.) , but both reduce the signal-to-noise ratio compared to the Sets the format of the digital audio data output from off setting, triangular more than rectangular. both digital audio outputs (the AES/EBU XLR con- There is no rule for using dither—differe
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3 - Menu functions The values available are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 3.11HR time display seconds. The default value is 0 seconds. HR-TM TapeTM 3.14End tally signal When recording or playing back in the HR(24BIT) mode, the tape moves at twice the normal speed. The tape counter can use the subcode recorded on the EndTLY T-End tape as its reference, meaning that the displayed time passes twice as fast as real time, or it can display real Controls the timing of the tape end tally signal trans- time
