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Tascam DV-RA1000 Owner's Manual
Summary of DV-RA1000
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High definition audio master recorder owner’s manual d00828701a.
Page 2: Important Safety Precautions
2 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual important safety precautions to the user this equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class a digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the fcc rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference wh...
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Tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 3 important safety instructions 1 read these instructions. 2 keep these instructions. 3 heed all warnings. 4 follow all instructions. 5 do not use this apparatus near water. 6 clean only with dry cloth. 7 do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance wi...
Page 4: Safety Information
4 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual safety information optical pickup: type : sru3532 manufacturer : sankyo laser output : less than 103 mw on the objective lens wavelength : 779–789 nm (cd), 652–660 nm (dvd) this product has been designed and manufactured according to fda regulations “title 21, cfr, ...
Page 5: Contents
Contents tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 5 1 – introduction cd-r and cd-rw ..................................................7 dvd+rw ...............................................................7 about this manual ........................................7 notes and warnings .........................
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Contents 6 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 5 – dvd playback & recording organization of projects and files ............ 31 important note on the file system ....................... 31 shut down ............................................................. 32 recording times and track lengths ..........
Page 7: 1 – Introduction
Tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 7 1 – introduction thank you for choosing the dv-ra1000. This unit provides you with the world’s most advanced method of recording high-resolution stereo audio on low-cost removable, reusable media. Fitted with digital i/o in all common formats, includ- ing sdif-3 (di...
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1 – introduction 8 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual copyright windows, windows xp, windows 2000, windows me, windows 98 and windows 95 are trademarks of microsoft corporation. Macintosh, macos, and macos x are trademarks of apple computer. Note this product is designed to help you record and repro- d...
Page 9: 1 – Introduction
1 – introduction tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 9 the voltage supplied to the unit should match the voltage as printed on the rear panel. If you are in any doubt regarding this matter, consult an electrician. Unpacking the unit when you unpack the unit, make sure that you have, in addition to the u...
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1 – introduction 10 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual handling of optical discs observe the following: • always place discs in the tray with their label fac- ing upward (discs used in the dv-ra1000 can only be played on one side). • to remove a disc from its storage case, press down on the center of t...
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1 – introduction tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 11 • do not use 8cm (single) discs, “business card” discs or any discs which are not the standard 12cm disc for recording, as the dv-ra1000 cannot record on them. Never use a stabilizer or printable discs using commercially available cd stabilizers or...
Page 12: 2 – Connections
12 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 2 – connections analog audio connections the dv-ra1000 can accept and output both bal- anced +4 dbu and unbalanced –10 dbv signals. Use the xlr jacks, wired as 1=ground, 2=hot, 3=cold for balanced connections, and the rca (pin) jacks for unbalanced connections. On ...
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2 – connections tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 13 other connections word sync the dv-ra1000 is fitted with three bnc connectors for standard word sync. Caution there should be one, and only one clock master in a setup. In receives word sync from an external source, and out is used when the dv-ra100...
Page 14: 3 – Basic Principles
14 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 3 – basic principles the “home” screen the dv-ra1000 has two types of “home screen”, depending on whether a cd or dvd disc is being used. Tip these screens are often accessible from other screens by pressing the f5 key (which is then marked as home on the display)....
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3 – basic principles tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 15 clock/calendar the dv-ra1000 contains a battery-powered clock/ calendar which timestamps all files recorded on a dvd disc. These timestamps are not visible from the dv-ra1000, but may be viewed as part of the file metadata when the unit is conn...
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3 – basic principles 16 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual menu operations to enter the main setting menu of the dv-ra1000: 1 press the menu key. The main menu appears. 2 use the wheel (or the f1 and f2 keys on the main unit or rc-ra1000 remote control unit) to move up and down the menu. 3 press enter ...
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3 – basic principles tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 17 the virtual front panel (vfp) the dv-ra1000 allows access to many functions through the virtual front panel, providing a graphical representation of many of the keys and controls that might be hardware switches on other units. Note that many of...
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3 – basic principles 18 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual general preferences there are a number of preferences that can be applied to the dv-ra1000 in order to help adapt the unit to your working style. 1 press the menu key, and use the wheel to select system setup . Press enter . 2 use the wheel to ...
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3 – basic principles tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 19 reference level ( ref.Level )this is the amount of headroom above the nominal 0 db — in other words, what level corresponds to 0 dbfs. This setting applies only to the balanced xlr analog i/o jacks (and not to the unbalanced rca analog connecto...
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3 – basic principles 20 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual remote control unit since the supplied rc-ra1000 remote control unit is a wired unit, no batteries are necessary, and it does not need to point at the dv-ra1000 for operation. The keys on the remote control unit complement those on the main uni...
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3 – basic principles tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 21 timer start the front panel switch beside the transport keys allows the dv-ra1000 to start playback of the loaded disc automatically when power is supplied. Set the switch to the play position to start playback, either from the start of the dis...
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3 – basic principles 22 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual adjusting the input level the input level is adjustable for all inputs (analog or digital), regardless of the current selection. The balance between the left and right channels of the input may also be set. For optimum sonic quality, it is also...
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Tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 23 4 – cd playback & recording basically, the dv-ra1000 works in the normal way as a cd player and in a very similar way to many cd recorder. However, there are a number of features that may not be immediately obvious. Playback the following apply when the dv-ra1000 i...
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4 – cd playback & recording 24 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual repeat playback use the virtual front panel (see “the virtual front panel (vfp)” on page 17) rpt function to change between single-track and whole disc repeat (and off). The remote control unit’s repeat key also allows these choices, but...
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4 – cd playback & recording tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 25 setting the threshold level the threshold level used for synchronized recording (“synchronized recording” on page 28) and also for the auto cue function (“auto cue” on page 24 above) is set by pressing and holding the sync rec key for ab...
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4 – cd playback & recording 26 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual auto track increment when recording, this allows the automatic division of the recorded material into separate tracks when the following conditions occur (this also applies to non- dsd dvd+rw recording): coaxial input the pq code (digita...
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4 – cd playback & recording tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 27 oscillator the oscillator is available from the virtual front panel (“the virtual front panel (vfp)” on page 17). Pressing the on-screen osc button (use f5 ( push )) briefly turns the oscillator on or off (nominal level). Pressing and ho...
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4 – cd playback & recording 28 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual unfinalizing discs this is the opposite of finalizing—removing the toc to allow more tracks to be added (subject to the space available on the disc). This is only possible with cd-rw discs, of course. To unfinalize a disc, press the on-s...
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4 – cd playback & recording tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 29 3 start the source. The first four seconds of the synchronized source after the threshold level is exceeded are recorded to a buffer memory and looped. The screen shows the rehearsal screen ( rehearsal ): 4 use the wheel to delay the rec...
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4 – cd playback & recording 30 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual editing marks • from the locate list, use f3 and f4 to start editing the currently-highlighted mark. • use the cursor keys to highlight the time fields and the wheel to edit these fields, to slip the position of the mark. • press enter w...
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Tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 31 5 – dvd playback & recording when performing high-resolution recording using dvd media with the dv-ra1000, it is important to remember that you are not recording a standard audio disc. The recording process creates an archive of audio files which can be edited and ...
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5 – dvd playback & recording 32 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual shut down in order to shut down the dv-ra1000 safely with a disc loaded, and writing all the udfmi data safely to disc (you cannot do this while playing back or rec- cording a disc): 1 with a disc loaded, press and hold the open/ close ...
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5 – dvd playback & recording tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 33 caution we do not recommend that recording is carried out while the background format is carried out, to avoid the possibility of attempting recording on an unformat- ted part of the disc. We strongly recommend that you use discs exclus...
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5 – dvd playback & recording 34 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual changing the name of a project 1 press menu and use the wheel and enter to select the dvd menu. From there, select the project sub-menu. 2 highlight the open sub-menu to show a list of the names of all projects on the disc, together wit...
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5 – dvd playback & recording tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 35 assemble, the elapsed time of the assembled track is shown. Tip in the same way as when the dv-ra1000 is recording cds, pressing record while recording will create a track division (but not in dsd recording). Also, to create several tra...
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5 – dvd playback & recording 36 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual setting marks as when recording cds, you can use this facility to set location marks which can then be used for loca- tion purposes (see “editing files” on page 36). However, when recording to dvd, these marks are written to udfmi as pa...
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5 – dvd playback & recording tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 37 2 from this sub-menu, select combine . Press enter . 3 press enter to combine the files, or cancel to cancel the operation. Note the maximum size of a file is 2 gb, as explained on “recording times and track lengths” on page 32. If comb...
Page 38: 6 – Effects
38 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 6 – effects the dv-ra1000 incorporates two signal processors: a 3-band equalization stage and a dynamics proces- sor. These can be inserted either before the final recording process (post-ad conversion) or on play- back (pre-da conversion). These effects can be use...
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6 – effects tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 39 dynamics processor the dynamics processor has a number of settings available: • three-band compressor • three-band expander • single-band compressor • single-band expander the frequencies of the two crossover points of the three-band effects can be set ...
Page 40: 7 – Use With A Computer
40 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 7 – use with a computer the dv-ra1000 will work with the following microsoft operating systems: windows me, win- dows 2000, and windows xp. It will work with the following operating systems from apple computer: macos 9.2.2 and above, and macos x 10.2 and above. For...
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7 – use with a computer tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 41 disconnecting from mac os x systems when you are disconnecting the dv-ra1000 from a macintosh system (os 9 or os x), drag the disk icon to the trash, or press command-e (os x 10.3 also has a button in the finder which allows ejecting removab...
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42 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 8 – specifications, etc. Analog i/o digital i/o balanced inputs connector: 3-pin xlr female x 2 (1: gnd, 2: hot, 3: cold) input impedance > 10 k Ω @ 1 khz nominal input level +4 dbu maximum input level +20 dbu, +22 dbu, +24 dbu (switchable) unbalanced inputs connec...
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8 – specifications, etc. Tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 43 other connections dsd inputs (bnc) connector bnc connectors x 2 signal type sony/philips sdif-3 format / dsd-raw signal level 2 v to 5 v (equivalent to 5v ttl) input impedance 75 Ω, ±10% clock synchronization must be synchronized to 44.1 kh...
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8 – specifications, etc. 44 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual audio performance these figures all measure analog-to-analog performance. Physical, etc. Specifications control i/o (serial) connector connector ‘d’-sub 9-pin female control protocol tascam optical disc control protocol a communication prot...
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8 – specifications, etc. Tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual 45 dimensional drawing figure 8.1: dimensions of the dv-ra1000 483 mm (19") 465 mm (18.3") 435 mm (17.1") 76 mm (3") 88 mm (3.5") 95 mm (3.75") 15 mm (0.6") 357 mm (14.1") 331 mm (13") 11 mm (0.5").
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8 – specifications, etc. 46 tascam dv-ra1000 owner’s manual block diagram figure 8.2: block diagram !" #$ $ % & !' ( #$ ") " *" " + , - ./( 0 *$ ' '" +, , 0 , *$ + ( 1- ( 1- + , , + , " , *" 12 , ,3# , 1+ +, 4 1 5 66/ 4786&478&&/!4789%478 , , ( 1- , + , , ( 1- 2 , 2 % * , + " , (" ( #$ ") " " , 1- "...
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