RCA SCT-550 - Manual (Page 7)

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OPERATION
1. To turn on the cassette deck, press POWER .
2. Gently press OPEN on the cassette door ( DECK 1 or
DECK 2 ) and load the cassette tape.
3. Press DOLBY NR and the indicator lights. Press DOLBY
NR again to turn off this feature.
4. Press REVERSE MODE to select the desired reverse mode
(Only DECK 2 ).
The cassette deck plays or records one side of
the tape and stops.
The cassette deck plays or records both side of
the tape and stops.
Note: To play or record both sides, you must press
PLAY (not PLAY ).
The cassette deck plays endlessly.
Note: During recording, the cassette deck automatically
changes the setting and operates the same way as both-
side play.
5. Press the PLAY button.
The indicator lights and play begins.
For forward play.
For reverse play.
6. Adjust the tape speed by turning the pitch control.
7. Press STOP to stop the tape.
AUTOMATIC SEARCH MUSIC SYSTEM
The automatic search music system (ASMS) lets you quickly
locate a desired selection on a cassette tape. It searches for the
blank space before a selection and automatically stops just
before playback begins.
1. Press PLAY to begin playing a tape.
2. To skip to the beginning of the current selection, press
or — whichever points in the opposite
direction of the play direction. To skip to the beginning of
the next selection, press
or — whichever
points in the same direction as the play direction.
ASMS might not operate as expected if:
• The pause between selection is less than 4 seconds long.
• The overall recorded volume level of a selection is very
low.
• The noise level between selections is very high.
USING CONTINUOUS PLAY (DECK 1 TO
DECK 2)
You can set the cassette deck to play one side of the tape in
DECK 1 , then automatically play the tape in DECK 2 .
To turn on the continuous play, press PLAY on DECK 1 for 3
or 4 seconds. DECK 1 starts playing and the PLAY indicator on
DECK 2 flashes.
When the cassette in DECK 1 finishes playing, the cassette tape
in DECK 2 automatically begins playback.
To cancel the continuous play, press STOP or any cassette
button of the deck which is currently playing (either DECK 1
or 2 ).
RECORDING A CASSETTE TAPE
You can only record to a cassette in DECK 2 .
Select the source to record from on your receiver amplifier
(CD, VCR, TUNER or DVD).
1. Gently press OPEN on DECK 2 and insert the tape to
be recorded into the cassette holder.
2. Press DOLBY NR to use the noise-reduction system.
3. Select the desired reverse mode.
• To record on one side only.
• To record on both sides.
4. Press .
The RECORD indicator lights and both the PLAY direction
indicators flash.
5. Turn REC LEVEL between MIN and MAX to adjust the
recording level.
6. To select the direction for recording, press either PLAY
or .
Notes:
• If you want to record both sides of the cassette tape when
the reverse mode switch is in , be sure to press
PLAY . Otherwise, if you press PLAY , only side B
of the cassette tape records.
• When both sides of the tape finish recording, DECK 2
automatically stops.
RECORD
REC/
PAUSE