Page 2 - IMPORTANT; CAUTION; IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
2 The exclamation point within an equilateraltriangle is intended to alert the user to the presenceo f i m p o r t a n t o p e r a t i n g a n d m a i n t e n a n c e( s e r v i c i n g ) i n s t r u c t i o n s i n t h e l i t e r a t u r eaccompanying the appliance. IMPORTANT The lightning flash w...
Page 3 - Information to User
3 [For Canadian model]T h i s C l a s s B d i g i t a l a p p a r a t u s c o m p l i e s w i t hCanadian ICES-003.[Pour le modèle Canadien]Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conformeà la norme NMB-003 du Canada. Information to User Alteration or modifications carried out without appropriate ...
Page 4 - Features of the PDR-509 CD Recorder; Create your own audio CDs; Before You Start
4 Features of the PDR-509 CD Recorder Create your own audio CDs At last, there's a convenient and affordable way to make your own audio CD s. Create your own original recordings, or put together compilations of favorite tracks from your existing CD s. You might also want to put your vinyl collection...
Page 5 - Contents; Getting Set Up
5 Contents Before You Start ................................................................. 6 Checking What's in the Box .......................................................... 6Using This Manual ........................................................................ 6Putting the Batteries in ...
Page 6 - Checking What’s in the Box; Set Up; Operation; Putting the Batteries in the Remote Control
6 Before You Start Checking What’s in the Box Make sure that you’ve received the following supplied accessories with your PDR–509 CD Recorder: ❖ Also included in the box is your warranty card and this. Two ‘AA’ size R6Pbatteries Two sets of audio cords Remote control unit AC power cord Using This Ma...
Page 7 - Maintaining Your CD Recorder; CD lens cleaner; Hints on Installation
7 Before You Start Getting Set Up ✔ Cleaning external surfaces To clean the compact disc recorder, wipe with a soft, drycloth. For stubborn dirt, wet a soft cloth with a milddetergent solution made by diluting one part detergent to5 or 6 parts water, wring well, then wipe off the dirt. Use adry clot...
Page 8 - About CD, CD–R and CD–RW Discs; Recording and finalizing discs; Recording copyright material
8 Before You Start The PDR–509 is compatible with three different types ofcompact disc: Playback-only CDs This unit will playback any ordinary audio CD s carrying the Compact Disc Digital Audio mark shown right. CD-Recordable discs Recordable CD s, or CD - R , carry the mark shown right, and are 'wr...
Page 10 - Connecting Up for Digital Playback & Recording; Connecting Up; About optical and coaxial jacks
10 Connecting Up for Digital Playback & Recording Connecting Up The diagrams on this and the following page showpossible connections with various other components inyour system. Before you start connecting your system,make sure that all the components are switched off anddisconnected from the wa...
Page 11 - Connecting Up for Analog Playback & Recording; Connecting Other Pioneer
11 Getting Set Up Connecting Up for Analog Playback & Recording Connecting Up Before you start, make sure that all the components areswitched off and disconnected from the wall outlet. Next, connect this unit to your amplifier/receiver using thetwo sets of supplied audio leads — one set for play...
Page 12 - What’s What; Front Panel; d f
12 What’s What Front Panel ◊ÛB - .?/ COMPACT DISC DIGITAL RECORDER MONITOR DIGITAL REC LEVEL ANALOG REC LEVEL INPUT SELECTOR TIME REPEAT 3 8 a p ; o s 2 4 5 7 9 q 6 1 u i d f g y t r e w 1 POWER switch (p.15) Switches power to the unit on and off. 2 INPUT SELECTOR (pp.20-25) Switches between the ana...
Page 13 - Basic Playback and Recording; Remote Control
13 Basic Playback and Recording What’s What Remote Control 1 FINALIZE (p.33) Press to start the disc finalization process (to makerecordable CD s playable on ordinary CD players). 2 FADER (p.27, 30) Press to fade in or fade out during playback or recording. 3 ERASE (CD-RW discs only) (pp.34–35) Pres...
Page 14 - Display
14 What’s What 30 30 23ft. (7m) Keep in mind the following when using the remote control unit: ❖ Make sure that there are no obstacles in between the remote andthe remote sensor on the unit. ❖ Use within the operating range and angle, as shown in the diagram left. ❖ Remote operation may become unrel...
Page 15 - Switching On for the First Time; Switch the POWER to
15 Basic Playback and Recording Basic Playback and Recording ◊ÛB - .?/ MONITOR INPUT SELECTOR TIME 1 Switching On for the First Time The next few pages take you through switching on the PDR–509, playing discs and using the basic playback controls, as wellas basic recording. Before proceeding with th...
Page 16 - Repeating Tracks; REPEAT; Choosing a Track to Play; REPEAT
16 Basic Playback and Recording FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER REPEAT DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10/0 > 10 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î Repeating Tracks Using the repeat play function you can repeat either the current track over and...
Page 17 - Showing Disc Information; or; TIME
17 Basic Playback and Recording Basic Playback and Recording Showing Disc Information The PDR-509 can display various kinds of disc and track information in both playback and recording modes. The TIME button switches between the different display modes. Additionally, in stop mode, individual track i...
Page 18 - Introduction to CD Recording; Recording modes
18 Basic Playback and Recording Introduction to CD Recording The PDR-509 is designed to let you make extremely highquality digital recordings onto recordable compact discs.For flexibility, you can use either rewritable discs ( CD – RW ) or write-once discs ( CD – R ). For more general information on...
Page 19 - Digital recording from DAT; Digital signal interruptions
19 Basic Playback and Recording Basic Playback and Recording Digital recording from DAT If you’re recording a DAT tape that was recorded using the DAT machine's auto ID function, the ID s on the tape are slightly after the beginning of the actual recording. Thiscan cause problems for the CD recorder...
Page 20 - Recording One Track from a Digital Source; Load a CD–R or CD–RW disc.
20 Basic Playback and Recording Recording One Track from a Digital Source If you want to record just a single track, or a few selected tracks, from a CD , MD , DCC or DAT , this mode is ideal. The recorder starts and stops automatically, and there's no need to worry about recording levels — you'll g...
Page 21 - Recording All Tracks from a Digital Source
21 Basic Playback and Recording Basic Playback and Recording Recording All Tracks from a Digital Source If you want to copy all the tracks from a CD , MD , DCC or DAT , use this mode. Like the 1-track synchro recording mode, the recorder starts and stops automatically. When recording from MD or CD ,...
Page 22 - Automatically Recording and Finalizing a Disc
22 Basic Playback and Recording Automatically Recording and Finalizing a Disc This is a variation on all-track synchro recording on the previous page. After all tracks on the source material has beenrecorded, the recorder automatically finalizes the disc. If you’re recording onto a CD – R , this mea...
Page 23 - Manually Recording a Digital Source
23 Basic Playback and Recording Basic Playback and Recording Manually Recording a Digital Source If you are recording from a digital source other than CD , MD , DCC or DAT — digital satellite, for example — synchro recording is not possible since there are no track numbers or start ID s to signal th...
Page 24 - Setting the Digital Recording Level; Turn the jog dial or press
24 Basic Playback and Recording Setting the Digital Recording Level One of the advantages of digital-to-digital recording is that you don't have to set recording levels—and risk distortion byoverloading the disc. If you're recording commercial material from CD s or other MD s, the digital level has ...
Page 25 - Recording an Analog Source
25 Basic Playback and Recording Basic Playback and Recording FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î Recording an Analog Source Recording through the analog inputs follows much the same proc...
Page 26 - Additional Playback Features; Programming the Track Order; During playback or stop mode, press PROGRAM.; Press; Checking what's in the program; Replacing a track in the program
26 Additional Playback Features Programming the Track Order Programming the track order means telling the player precisely which tracks, and in what order, you want played. You canprogram a sequence of up to 24 steps (each step can contain either a track or a pause in the program), playing tracks mo...
Page 27 - Additional Features; Fading In and Fading Out; Press FADER during playback to pause the disc.; Playing Tracks at Random; FADER; Playing a Disc with Skip IDs
27 Additional Features Additional Playback Features RANDOM FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER REPEAT CHECK PROGRAM CLEAR DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10/0 > 10 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î COMPACT DISC RECORDERREMOTE CONTROL UNIT RANDOM F...
Page 28 - Additional Recording Features; Skipping Unwanted Tracks; Setting skip
28 Additional Recording Features RANDOM FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER REPEAT CHECK PROGRAM CLEAR DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10/0 > 10 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î COMPACT DISC RECORDERREMOTE CONTROL UNIT Skipping Unwanted Tracks Af...
Page 29 - Clearing skip
29 Additional Features Additional Recording Features RANDOM FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER REPEAT CHECK PROGRAM CLEAR DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10/0 > 10 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î COMPACT DISC RECORDERREMOTE CONTROL UNIT 1 2,3 C...
Page 30 - Numbering Tracks; Recording Fade Ins and Fade Outs; Recording a fade in
30 Additional Recording Features Numbering Tracks If you're recording from CD , MD , DCC or DAT , you can usually let the recorder number the tracks as they change on the source material. Although automatic track numbering is the default mode of the recorder, you can number tracks manuallyas recordi...
Page 31 - Checking What's at the End of a Disc; Recording Blank Sections
31 Additional Features Additional Recording Features FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î 2 1 Checking What's at the End of a Disc You don't have to record a whole disc at once. Until you finaliz...
Page 32 - Monitoring a Source; Start the source component playing.; Checking for Digital Copy Protection; Start playing the digital source.
32 Additional Recording Features ◊ÛB - .?/ MONITOR INPUT SELECTOR TIME Monitoring a Source If you have a set up like the figure below or like that on page 11, you can monitor the source without changing the inputfunction of the amplifier from the PDR–509 (you could also monitor through a pair of hea...
Page 33 - Finalizing a Disc; Load the CD–R or CD–RW you want to finalize.
33 Additional Features Additional Recording Features ◊ÛB - .?/ MONITOR INPUT SELECTOR TIME 2 Finalizing a Disc Before you can play a CD – R on an ordinary CD player, the disc must go through a process called finalization. Once finalized, a CD – R disc is no longer recordable, nor will you be able to...
Page 34 - Erasing a CD–RW Disc; Use the jog dial or press
34 Additional Recording Features FINALIZE ERASE TIME FADER DIGITAL SYNCHRO INPUT SELECTOR SKIP PLAY SET SKIP ID CLEAR AUTO/ MANUAL TRACK NO. WRITE REC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 3 1 ¡ 4 ¢ Î 1 3 2 ◊ÛB - .?/ MONITOR INPUT SELECTOR TIME Erasing a CD–RW Disc Although more expensive than CD – R discs, the great...
Page 35 - When a finalized disc is loaded:; ERASE
35 Additional Features Additional Recording Features COMPACT DISC DIGITAL RECORDER ◊ÛB - .?/ MONITOR INPUT SELECTOR TIME When a finalized disc is loaded: 1 Press ERASE. The display shows ERASE and TOC ? and the recorder function indicator blinks to indicate erase standby mode. ❖ Press 7 (stop) to ca...
Page 36 - Additional Information; Understanding Display Messages
36 Additional Information Understanding Display Messages Below is a list of messages you’ll see during normal operation of the PDR–509 together with a brief explanation of what theymean. If you need more information, turn to the page indicated. Message OPEN CLOSE SET UP TOC READ 1-SYNC AL-SYNC CAN N...
Page 37 - Troubleshooting
37 Additional Information Additional Information Troubleshooting Below is a list of messages mainly related to playback and recording problems, together with a brief explanation and a pagereference where you can find more information: Cause The input signal is digital-copy pro-tected with SCMS . The...
Page 39 - Specifications
39 Additional Information Additional Information 1. General Model ......................................................................... Compact disc audio systemApplicable discs .............................................................. CDs, CD-Rs and CD-RWsPower supply ........................
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