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AW1600 Owner’s Manual
Troubleshooting
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Appendix
■ Power does not turn on
• Is the AC adaptor connected to an AC outlet of the correct
voltage?
• Is the POWER switch turned ON?
• If the power still does not turn on, please contact your
Yamaha dealer.
■ LCD display is dim or dark
• Use the contrast knob located at the lower right of the
screen to adjust the contrast.
■ Can’t use the [DATA/JOG] dial to control on-
screen parameters
• The [JOG ON] key may be on.
• Some parameters cannot be operated in certain states,
such as while the recorder is running.
■ No sound, or sound is too faint
• Are speakers or headphones connected correctly?
• Is your amp and other external devices turned on?
• Are you using connection cables with built-in resistors?
• Does the stereo output channel meter move?
• Is the stereo output channel fader raised? Is it turned on?
• The EQ gain may be set to an extremely low value.
• The dynamics processor may be set to an extreme thresh-
old or ratio.
• If you are connecting an electric guitar, is it connected to
the Hi-Z jack?
• Is the attenuator of the EQ screen or VIEW screen raised?
→ Check the level (meter movement) in the METER page of
the VIEW screen.
→ If you press the [SEL] key in the MONITOR screen INIT
page, that channel will be initialized to default values that
allow sound to be output.
→ If DIGITAL IN is set to other than DISABLE in the UTILITY
screen D.IN HDD page, and no signal is being input to the
DIGITAL INPUT jack, a message of “WRONG WORD
CLOCK” will appear, and sound will not be output.
■ Input sound is not output
• Is the signal from the external device being input?
• The connection cable from the external device may be
broken.
• Are cables connected to both the MIC/LINE INPUT 8
XLR/TRS connector and the HI-Z connector?
• Is the [GAIN] knob set to an appropriate level?
• Is the input channel fader raised? Is it turned on?
• The input channel may have been set to DIGITAL IN.
• When recording, is the recording-destination track fader
(which adjusts the monitor level) raised?
→ If you are recording, the sound of that input channel will not
be heard during playback.
■ Recorded sound is not output
• Has audio data been recorded on the recorder?
• Is the virtual track set to the track that was recorded?
•A recorded region shorter than 10 msec will not be played
back.
•Tracks 1–16 will not play back if the AW1600 is in Stereo
Track, Sound Clip, or Audio CD playback mode.
■ Can’t play back the STEREO track
• Is the stereo track turned on in the MONITOR screen
ST.TRACK page?
■ Metronome cannot be heard
• The metronome sound is normally sent only to the MONI-
TOR OUT and headphones.
• The metronome will not sound while the recorder is
stopped.
• In Sound Clip mode, the metronome will sound only dur-
ing recording.
■ Can’t record
• Is there sufficient free space on the internal hard disk?
→ You can check the remaining recordable time by setting the
counter display to REMAIN in the SONG screen SETUP
page.
• The song may be protected.
• The stereo track may be in playback mode.
• Is the input signal routed appropriately to the recorder?
• Check the recording-source and recording-destination in
the QUICK NAVIGATE page RECORD screen?
• DIGITAL REC may have been turned OFF in the UTIL-
ITY screen D.IN•HDD page.
• Please read and understand the copyright warning (→ p. 6)
before using digital input signals.
■ Can’t record on the STEREO track
• It is not possible to record on the STEREO track while
recording on other tracks.
Troubleshooting
Power does not turn on, operation not
possible
No sound
Can’t record, something is wrong with
the recorded sound