Pioneer PDR-609 manual

Operating Instructions COMPACT DISC RECORDER PDR-609[...]

2 En 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. IMPOR T ANT The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of [...]

3 English En [For Canadian model] This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. [Pour le modèle Canadien] Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada. CAUTION: ¶ Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified herein hazardous radiation exposure. ¶ The[...]

4 En IMPORT ANT FOR USE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM The wires in this mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code: Blue : Neutral Brown : Live If the plug provided is unsuitable for your socket outlets, the plug must be cut off and a suitable plug fitted. The cutoff plug should be disposed of and must not be inserted into any 13 amp soc[...]

5 English Cont ents 1 Before Y ou Start Feature of the PDR-609 CD recorder ...................................... 6 Checking what’ s in the box ..................................................... 6 Using this manual ................................................................... 6 Hints on installation ......................................[...]

6 En 1 Befor e y ou st ar t Hints on inst allation We want you to enjoy using the PDR–609 for years to come, so please bear in mind the following points when choosing a suitable location for it: Do... ✔ Use in a well-ventilated room. ✔ Place on a solid, flat, level surface, such as a table, shelf or stereo rack. Don’ t... ✘ Use in a place[...]

7 En 1 Befor e y ou st art English Car e and maint enance Cleaning e xt ernal surfaces T o clean the compact disc recorder , wipe with a soft, dry cloth. For stubborn dirt, wet a soft cloth with a mild detergent solution made by diluting one part detergent to 5 or 6 parts water , wring well, then wipe off the dirt. Use a dry cloth to wipe the surfa[...]

8 En 1 Befor e y ou st ar t About CD, CD-R and CD-R W discs The PDR–609 is compatible with three types of compact disc: Pla yback -only CDs This unit will playback any ordinary audio CDs carrying the Compact Disc Digital Audio mark shown right. CD-R ecor dable discs Recordable CDs, or CD-R, carry the mark shown right, and are 'write once&apo[...]

9 En 1 Befor e y ou st art English R ecor ding copyright mat erial The price of a consumer -use disc includes a copyright fee that has been paid to the copyright owner (in countries where the copyright fee collection system has been established based on their respective copyright laws). This means that you can use these discs to record music and ot[...]

10 En 2 Connecting up cable around sharp corners as this can damage the cable. Likewise, when storing optical cable, coil loosely (as shown on page 8). If you’re using one of the coaxial-type digital connectors you’ll need a lead with an RCA/phono plug at each end (the same type of connector as the Video cable). Using the digital input s T o ma[...]

11 En 2 Connecting up English PO WER -CORD CAUTION Handle the power cord by the plug part. Do not pull out the plug by tugging the cord, and never touch the power cord when your hands are wet, as this could cause a short circuit or electric shock. Do not place the unit, a piece of furniture, or other object on the power cord or pinch the cord in an[...]

12 En 3 C ontr ols and Displa y s 1 2 FINALIZE (p.2 6) Press to start the disc finalization process (to make recordable CDs playable on ordinary CD players). Indicator lights up during finalization. 1 3 A UT O/MANU AL (p.3 3–3 4) Switches between automatic and manual track numbering when recording a disc. 1 4 INPUT SELECT OR (p.1 9–2 4,3 7) Swi[...]

13 En 3 C ontr ols and Displa y s English 1 5 SKIP PLA Y (p.2 8) Press to switch skip play on and off. 1 6 SKIP ID SET (p.2 9) Instructs the player to skip a particular track on playback. 1 7 SKIP ID CLEAR (p.2 9) Clears the above setting. 1 8 S YNCHR O (p.1 9–2 1) Press to start recording on detection of an input signal. 1 9 A UT O/MANU AL (p.3 [...]

14 En 3 C ontr ols and Displa y s Displa y 1 CD t ext indicat or s(p.1 6) DISC Lights up when disc information is displayed. TRA CK Lights up when track information is displayed. AR TST Lights up when artist information is displayed. 2 T O T AL / REMAIN / TIME (p.1 7) Indicates whether the current displayed time is elapsed, remaining, or total time[...]

15 En 4 Get ting Start ed English Switching on for the fir st time The next few pages take you through switching on the PDR–609, playing discs, and doing some basic recording. Before proceeding with this section you should have at least connected your recorder to an amplifier . (If you haven't, turn to pages 10–11 for more on connecting th[...]

16 En 4 Get ting Star t ed Selec ting tr acks dir ec tly If you want to start directly from a track other than the first, just enter the track number from the remote control. If you do the same thing during playback, the recorder immediately jumps to that track on the disc. • While a disc is st opped, paused or playing, ent er the track number yo[...]

17 En 4 Get ting Start ed English Elapsed pla yback time of current tr ack Remaining pla ying time of all tr acks Remaining pla ying time of current tr ack O2 O1 O2:16 O2 O1–O3:2O ALL –46:4O Remaining r ecor ding time a vailable* Elapsed r ecording time O2 O1 O7:46 REC –56:14 Sho wing disc information The PDR-609 can display various kinds of [...]

4 Get ting Star t ed 18 En This generally allows just one generation of digital recording. In other words, you can make a digital recording from an original source (such as a commercial CD), but you can’t then make further digital recordings from that copy . Most digital recording equipment uses the SCMS system, including CD and MD recorders, and[...]

19 En 4 Get ting Start ed English R ecor ding one tr ack fr om a sour ce If you want to record just a single track, or a few selected tracks, from a digital (CD, MD, DCC or DA T) or an analog source, the recorder can start and stop automatically . With digital recording, there's no need to worry about recording levels—you'll get a perfe[...]

20 En 4 Get ting Star t ed Synchro recording won't work if the source is already playing! The recorder goes into all-sync record pause and the S YNC indicator starts to blink. SYNC–ALL SYNC CD-R The display shows the all-track sync mode, with the S YNC indicator blinking to show that recording can start. 4 Play the sour ce. The recorder star[...]

21 En 4 Get ting start ed English SYNC–1 SYNC-1 SYNC–ALL SYNC SYNC–FINAL SYNC CD-R CD-R CD-R O1 O1 OO:OO FINALIZE CD-R 1-tr ack s ync All-tr ack s ync All-tr ack s ync w/ finalization Recor d-pause (no s ync) Aut omatically r ecor ding and finalizing a disc This is a variation on all-track synchro recording on the previous page. After all tra[...]

22 En 4 Get ting start ed 6 Re st art playback of the sour ce mat erial. If the AU T O TRACK indicator is lit in the display then the recorder will start a new track each time it detects a sound after at least two seconds of continuous silence. (T o switch off auto track numbering see Manually numbering tracks on page 33.) 7 When y ou're done,[...]

23 En 4 Get ting start ed English Se t ting the digital r ecor ding le v el One of the advantages of digital-to-digital recording is that you don't have to set recording levels—and risk distortion by overloading the disc. If you're recording commercial material from CD or MD, the digital level has already been optimized and you don&apos[...]

24 En 4 Get ting start ed Se t ting the analog r ecor ding le v el Compared to analog tape, the distortion that you get from overloading a CD is much less tolerable, and something you’ll definitely want to avoid. What you want to aim for is a level where the loudest sound from your source material is recorded onto the CD at a level just below the[...]

25 En 4 Get ting start ed English ◊ÛB - >?/ MONI TOR INPUT SELECTO R AUTO MANUAL AUTO MANUAL TRACK N O. WRITE TIME FINA LIZE ERA SE SCR OLL 2 1 DIGI TA L REC LEVE L ANALOG REC LEVE L MENU/ DELETE TEXT SYNC HRO PUSH ENT ER R L ANAL OG REC BAL ANCE Lega to L ink Conv ersi on CD TEXT 4,6 5 4,6 3 ENTER CURSOR MENU/ DELETE NAME MARK SET CLEAR DISP[...]

26 En 4 Get ting start ed For a CD-R W , the finalize indicator lights in the display . None of the controls on the player or the remote have any effect during finalization. If, however , the recorder hasn't managed to finalize the disc within 10 minutes, you can abort the operation by pressing 7 . If you do this, the disc won't be playab[...]

27 En 5 Mor e pla yback featur es English DIGITAL REC LEVEL ANALOG REC LEVEL MENU/ DELETE TEXT SYNCHRO PUSH ENTER R L ANALOG REC BALANCE Legato Link Conversion CD TEXT 3 Pr ogr amming the tr ack or der Programming the track order means telling the player precisely which tracks, and in what order , you want played. Y ou can program a playlist of up [...]

28 En 5 Mor e pla yback featur es Pla ying a disc with skip IDs If you're not sure whether a disc has skip IDs programmed, look for the SKIP ON indicator in the display when you load a disc—it will light automatically if one or more are present. 1 Load a disc. The SKIP ON indicator lights up if there are any skip IDs on the disc. This means [...]

29 En 5 Mor e pla yback featur es English Clearing skip IDs 1 Pr ess SKIP PLA Y t o switch off skip play mode. The SKIP ON indicator in the display disappears. • If the SKIP ON indicator did not light up when you loaded the disc then there are no skip IDs present on that disc. 2 Pr ess SKIP ID CLEAR during pla yback (or paused playback) of the tr[...]

30 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s If the disc is already named, the character display shows the name (or the first 12 characters if it is too long to be displayed completely), with a blinking cursor under the first character . 4 Select/change the character a t the curr ent cursor position b y turning the jog dial. See below for the complete list[...]

31 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s English • Erase the character at the current cursor position by pressing MENU / DELETE . The characters on either side of the current cursor position close to fill up the gap. 7 Pr ess NAME again t o enter the t e xt and r eturn t o the title selection display . If you are inputting a track title, you must ass[...]

32 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s 7 Use the jog dial t o select one of the pre vious three names st or ed, then pr ess the jog dial (ENTER). On the remote, use the 4 and ¢ buttons to select a name, then press ENTER . The display flashes Name Insert briefly and the selected name is inserted at the point you chose. • Edit the name further if ne[...]

33 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s English Aut omatically numbering tr acks If you're recording from CD, MD, DCC or DA T , you can usually let the recorder number the tracks automatically as they change on the source material. When recording other digital or analog sources, the recorder will start a new track if it detects more than 2 second[...]

34 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s DIGI TAL REC LEVEL ANA LOG REC LEVEL MENU/ DELETE TEXT SYNC HRO PUSH ENTE R R L ANAL OG REC BALA NCE Legat o Link Conv ersion CD TEXT 2,3,4 1 St ar ting tr acks in time incr ement s If you aren't able to set track numbers automatically during recording (a radio program with interviews, for example), you mig[...]

35 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s English ENTER CURSOR MENU/ DELETE NAME MARK SET CLEAR DISPLAY /CHARA 7 1 ¡ 8 3 4 ¢ ABC DEF GHI MNO JKL PQRS TUV WXYZ REC SYNCHRO REPEAT RANDOM NAME CLIP I NPUT SELECTER FADER SKIP PLA Y SKIP ID PROGRAM CHECK CLEAR AUTO / MANUAL 123 4 56 78 9 10/0 >10 SCROLL TIME Î • 2 1 DIGI TAL REC LEVEL ANA[...]

36 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s Monit oring a sour ce When recording, or in record-pause mode, the source signal is always available for monitoring through a connected amplifier or through a pair of headphones plugged into the PDR–609’ s phones jack. Even if you’re not recording, you can still monitor—useful for cueing up for the next [...]

37 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s English Er asing a CD-R W disc Although more expensive than CD-R discs, the great advantage of CD-RW is that the discs can be erased and reused. V arious erase options are available depending on whether the disc has been finalized. A third, special option, erases (re- initializes) the whole disc. This process ta[...]

38 En 6 Mor e r ecording fea tur e s When a finalized disc is loaded Be careful: When you erase the TOC, the CD text information for the disc is also copied to memory for editing purposes, erasing the oldest text information stored (as explained on page 30). 1 Pre ss ER ASE. The display shows ERASE TO C ? . Press 7 to cancel erase here. 2 Use the j[...]

39 En 7 Additional informa tion English Under st anding displa y message s Below is a list of messages you’ll see during normal operation of the PDR–609 together with a brief explanation of what they mean. If you need more information, turn to the page indicated. Not e: In the table below , ** indicates a track number . e g a s s e M n o i t p [...]

40 En 7 Additional informa tion y a l p s i D e s u a C y d e m e R K C E H C C S I D r o d e g a m a d s i c s i d e h T . y t r i d e d i s p u d e d a o l s i c s i d e h T . n w o d . y r a s s e c e n s a n a e l C . c t e , s e h c t a r c s , t r i d , t s u d r o f k c e h c d n a c s i d e h t t u o e k a T d e y a l p s i d s i e g a s s [...]

41 En 7 Additional informa tion English y a l p s i D e s u a C y d e m e R Y P O C t ' n a C y p o c - l a t i g i d s i l a n g i s t u p n i e h T . S M C S h t i w d e t c e t o r p . s t u p n i g o l a n a e h t h g u o r h t e c r u o s e h t d r o c e R C N Y S t ' n a C e h t n e h w s r a e p p a s i h T O R H C N Y S t u p n i [...]

42 En 7 Additional informa tion It’ s often easy to mistake incorrect operation for trouble and malfunction of the unit. If you think there is something wrong with the component, check the points below first. If the problem persists, contact you nearest Pioneer -authorized service center and have them check over the unit. m o t p m y S e s u a C [...]

43 En 7 Additional informa tion English Specifications 1 Gener al Model ..................................................... Compact disc audio system Applicable discs ......................................... CDs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs Power supply ............. AC 120 V , 60 Hz (U.S and Canadian models) AC 220-240 V , 50/60 Hz (U.K model) Power consu[...]

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