RCA SCT-550 Cassette Player User Manual


 
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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
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