Optimus - Katadyn Products Inc. High-Speed Dubbing Stereo Cassette Deck SCT-56 - Manual (Page 8)

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Special Features
Fast-Forward/Rewind To rapidly advance or rewind the tape, press or . To stop the tape,
press STOP ( ). When the tape reaches the end, the cassette deck auto-
matically stops.
Pause To temporarily stop Deck 2 during playback or recording, press PAUSE
( ). To restart, press , , or .
Note: You cannot pause while fast-forwarding or rewinding.
Blank Skip To have the cassette deck automatically fast-forward through blank
spaces on the tape, set
REV MODE to RELAY/SKIP . If the cassette deck
encounters 15 seconds of silence, it fast-forwards to the end of the
blank section and resumes normal play from that point. If the tape
reaches the end, it reverses and plays the other side.
Tape Counter As you play or record a tape, the tape counter advances for the tape side
facing you or decreases for the tape side facing away from you. At the
beginning of a tape or selection, press
RESET to reset the counter to
0000. You can then use the tape counter to quickly locate a specific sec-
tion on the tape.
The deck can also show the elapsed playing time (in minutes and sec-
onds) since you reset the time. To switch between displays, press
TIME/
COUNTER on the deck you are using. (The time does not advance when
you fast-forward or rewind 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.
ASMS operates only during play. If the cassette deck is stopped, first
press
or .
• To skip to the beginning of the current (or an earlier) selec-
tion:
Press or —whichever points in the opposite direc-
tion of the or indicator.
To skip to the beginning of an earlier selection, repeatedly press
the button.
• To skip to the beginning of the next (or a later) selection:
Press or —whichever points in the same direction
as the or indicator.
Note: If you press (or ) more times than the number of selections
on the side you want to search, and have not set REV MODE to , the
search continues to the other side.
ASMS might not operate as expected if:
• The pause between selections 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.