Sony DTC-57ES - Manual (Page 32)

The end ID indicates the last position of the recording or
playback. While recording on the same tape has been done
several times, you can locate the point where the previous
recording terminates quickly, using the end ID.
When the end ID is detected during playback, the playback
stops and the tape is rewound to the beginning
automatically.
Writing during Recording
1 Press the llPAUSE, OREC MUTE or FADER button.
The button you pressed The mode of the deck
IIPAUSE Record-pause mode
OREC MUTE Record-pause mode after a
sound muted portion is
created for 4 seconds.
FADER Record-pause mode after
the sound fades out.
2 Press the END ID WRITE button.
The END ID WRITE indicator lights.
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3 Press the iiPAUSE or ► (play) button to release the
record-pause mode.
The ’EE* indicator appears on the display.
The end ID is written for about 9 seconds (18 seconds in
the long-play mode). Tape returns to the beginning of the
end ID after the end ID is written.
PSMNO.
After you write an end ID
The portion after the end ID position cannot be played
back. (The *EE‘ indicator appears at the PGM NO. display.)
Erase the end ID (page 33) where you want to play back
the portion after the end ID position.
Writing during Playback (the Rehearsal Function)
a During playback, no end ID can be written on a blank
section.
• To write the end ID just before a blank section with the end
search function, perform *Writing during Recording*
described on the left colums.
• Make sure that the safety tab of the cassette is closed.
^ During playback, press END ID WRITE at the desired
position.
The REHEARSAL indicator lights and the WRITE indicator
flashes, and the portion for 3 seconds to the point where
you pressed the END ID WRITE button, is played back
repeatedly (rehearsal function).
The end of the repeated portion willbethe beginning of the
end ID.
2 Press the or ►► button to adjust the “repeat end”
point
The “repeat end point is shifted backward with the
button or fonward with the ►► button, by 0.3 of a second.
The indicator at the MARGIN display shows how much the
'repeat end* point is shifted from the point where you
pressed the END ID WRITE button.
It can be shifted up to 99 seconds backward or forward.
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When you pressed ^ twice
3 After setting the beginning of the end ID at the desired
point, press the END ID WRITE button again.
The *EE* and WRITE indicators light, and an end ID
is written.
Note on the point where an end ID Is written
During rehearsal function, an end ID is written at the end of
the repeated portion as illustrated.
Repeated portion —■
Selection o
3 seconds
Each time you press
0.3
Point where you pressed
END ID WRITE
Selection
■ End ID (9 seconds)
Each time you press ►►
0.3
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The repeated portion is played back 8 times, and the tape
stops.