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D00414800A
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MD-801R@#/
MD-801P@#
MD Recorder/Player
OWNER’S MANUAL
CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT
REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS
INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.
The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert
the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure
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that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric s
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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 If the plug fitted is not suitable for the power points in your comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, home or the cable is too short to reach a power point, then pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These obtain an appropriate safety approved extension lead or limits are designed to p
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS CAUTION: "Note to CATV system installer: ÉRead all of these Instructions. This reminder is provided to call the CATV system installer’s attention to ÉSave these Instructions for later use. Section 820-40 of the NEC which provides guidelines for proper grounding ÉFollow all Warnings and Instructions marked on the audio and, in particular, specifies that the cable ground shall be connected to
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SAFETY INFORMATION This product has been designed and manufactured according to FDA regulations "title 21, CFR, chapter 1, subchapter J, based on the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968", and is classified as class 1 laser product. There is not hazardous invisible laser radiation during oper- ation because invisible laser radiation emitted inside of this product is completely confined in the protective housings. The label required in this reguration is shown
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Table of Contents (10) PGM NO................................................. 2-6 1 - Introduction (11) Dot-matrix alphanumeric display ....... 2-6 1.1 About the MiniDisc format ................1-1 (12) TOC EDIT indicator .............................. 2-6 1.1.1 ATRAC compression.......................... 1-1 (13) EOM ....................................................... 2-6 1.1.2 Buffer memory .................................... 1-1 (14) Peak level meters.....................
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Table of Contents 4.2.1 Playing back a whole disc.................. 4-1 5.6.1 Normal A-B erase.................................5-4 4.2.2 Playback outputs ................................ 4-1 5.6.2 Erasing to the end of a track ..............5-4 4.2.3 Monaural playback.............................. 4-1 5.6.3 Erasing from the start of a track ........5-4 4.2.4 Playing back a single track ................ 4-2 5.6.4 Erasing more than one track at a 4.2.5 Entering the A and B location points 4-2 tim
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1 - Introduction This manual covers the two models of the MD-801 Full explanations of the principles of magneto-opti- Mk II product line: the MD-801R Mk II, which is cal recording may be found in a number of excellent capable of recording and playing back on MiniDisc reference works, but briefly, during the recording media, and the MD-801P Mk II, which is for play- process, the disc is exposed to a strong laser beam back only of such media. Apart from the recording which heats
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1 - Care of MD media disk from the user, and a file appears as one contigu- 1.3 About the MD-801R/P Mk II ous block of data (even though it may be spread over many tracks and sectors of the disk), the MD player allows separated audio data to appear as a continuous The MD-801R/P Mk II, based on the TASCAM MD- audio track. 801 series of MD recorder/players, and designed to meet the requirements of audio professionals, The MD-801 allows the creation and reading of a include
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1 - About the MD-801R/P Mk II to be conveniently carried out using a standard key- 1.3.2Rack-mounting the unit board The MD-801 is equipped with integral rack-mount • Remote control possible from dedicated TASCAM ears, and may be installed in any standard vertical remote control units (RC-801, RC-FS10/20, and 19” rack. RC-8), or through industry-standard parallel or Remove the feet from the MD-801 using a Phillips serial interfaces screwdriver before installing the unit. • T
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1 - About this manual 1.3.4Backup memory When characters are shown on the unit’s dot-matrix display, the following typeface is used: Input When the unit is powered down, the following set- Mon. Alternatively, the alphanumeric display itself tings are memorized. may be shown: • AUTO READY status (see [20]) TITLE ? • AUTO CUE settings and status (see [21]) • The last used PLAY mode (see [22]) If a “preset” word or phrase is shown on the display, this is s
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1 - Hookup Examplel 1.5 Hookup Examplel TASCAM MD-801R/P Mk II 1–5
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2 - Front and rear panel features 2–1 TASCAM MD-801R/P Mk II
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2 - Front and rear panel features This section, as well as giving a description of the [4] TRACK keys controls and features of the MD-801, also provides These keys are used to move the playback position many descriptions of basic operations. backwards or forwards a track at a time. Their use is detailed in 4.2, "Playback of discs". The section on the rear panel also contains advice on setting up and co
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2 - Front panel To start recording, press the PLAY key [6]. To stop continuous. recording, press the STOP key [5]. After the STOP The further the shuttle wheel is turned from the cen- key has been pressed, the words TOC EDIT will flash ter position, the faster the shuttle playback speed. on the display, which will also show UTOC When the unit is in menu mode, this wheel is used in Writing as the U-TOC
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2 - Front panel • REMAIN—the total time remaining on the disc for to display the following: further recording (the length of the blank portion of • aay bbm ccd—where aa is the year, the disc) bb is the month, and cc is the day of the date • TOTAL—the total elapsed time from the start of the according to the MD-801’s internal clock. disc • eeh ffm ggs—where ee is the hour (in • TOTAL REMAIN—the total ti
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2 - Front panel these edits cannot be committed to disc using • SINGLE/SINGLE MODE—Single-track play- the TOC WRITE function (see below). back mode is selected • (blank)/CONTINUE—Continuous play of a disc, from the start to the end [19]TOC WRITE key and indicator • A-B/A-B MODE—If the A and B points have After an edit operation has been selected and per- been set (see [24]), playback will loop between formed from the EDIT
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2 - Display mode, the REPEAT indicator will be shown on the dis- neither boosted nor attenuated, and a nominal signal play. See 4.2.9, "Repeat playback" for further details will be received at the standard level of either +4 dBu of this mode. (balanced, [36]) or –10 dBV (unbalanced, [37]). A signal at the nominal analog level (0 dB) will show [27]INPUT LEVEL controls R as a reading of –16 dB on the u
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2 - Rear panel (6) TRACK TITLE indicator NOTE R Lights when track titles are being entered or dis- The OVER indicator indicates digital clipping. played. See 5.11, "Track and disc title entry" for Digital clipping is a harsh-sounding form of details. distortion, unlike, say, analog tape saturation, (7) DISC TITLE indicator and should be avoided. Lights when the title of the disc is being entered or displayed. See 5.11, "Track
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2 - Rear panel ital outputs [33] and [35] without passing through [38]ANALOG OUTPUTS (MONITOR) the frequency converter. These RCA unbalanced connectors provide output signals at the –10 dBV level. [33]DIGITAL OUTPUT (AES/EBU) This XLR-type connector outputs digital audio data The nominal impedance is 220 W . in AES3-1992 format. [39]Analog output function DIP switch The output sampling fre
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2 - Rear panel The wiring is, as marked on the rear panel: OFF ON 1=ground, 2=hot (+), 3=cold (–). (up) (down) When OFF, digital signals received The nominal impedance is 11 W . at either [32] or [34] are not The trimmer potentiometers by each connector may directly retransmitted. be turned counterclockwise or clockwise to cut or When the switch is set to ON, received digital signals are retrans- boost respectivel
