Sony PCM-800 - Setting a Park Position

5-10 Setting a Park Position
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You can have the slave PCM-800 transport park (pause) at the desired
point for it to start playing to optimum timing with respect to the
master.
Pre-setting procedure
First, have the slave PCM-800 lock to the master transport as follows:
1 Play the master.
2 Play the slave PCM-800.
3 Press DISPLAY on the slave as many times as necessary to active
its frame accurate DIFF mode.
See page 2-3 if necessary.
4 To capture the current difference between the master and slave
time code numbers, use the Auto Offset Entry feature by holding
either the down (W) or the up (A) key and pressing the other.
5 Press CHASE on the slave.
6 When the slave locks to the master, stop both machines by .
pressing STOP on the master.
Measuring the current park position
7 Hold down the up (A) key and press DISPLAY on the slave PCN-
800, then press either the up (A) or the down (¥) key to activatea
park position measurement mode.
“tESt On” will appear in the display window.
(Each time you activate the park position measurement mode, all
previously set points are reset to 00.)
8 Press DISPLAY to activate the frame accurate DIFF mode as
before. °
9 Play the master.
About 2 seconds later, the time numbers in the display will
stabilize. The numbers show the time the slave takes to settle down
in play mode. That is to say, a tight play start of the slave will be
ensured by setting the park position of the slave the displayed time
ahead of the current park position.
With the RM-D800
00:00 Test On
The current relative difference between the master and slave is
displayed instead of the current park position time when you change
the “On” to “Off” with the plus (+) key or the minus (—) key.
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