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552 User Guide and Technical Information

Record Mode

The REC LED illuminates solid red while recording. The start of a recording is indicated audibly in

headphones by a single, 440 Hz tone. When a recording is paused, one 220 Hz tone is heard in head-

phones and the REC LED ﬂashes red. See Record Pause for details. When recording is stopped, two 220

Hz tones are heard in headphones. The Setup Menu is locked out while recording.

The 552 can be set to automatically start and stop recordings according to the incoming time code

signal. See Time Code for details.

If the internal batteries drop to extremely low voltage levels while recording, the recorder will au-

tomatically close the ﬁle that it is recording to prevent it from being lost. The recorder is locked out

until the power source is switched to external or the 552 is powered down and batteries are changed.

Record Pause

When Record Pause is enabled in the Setup Menu, the recordings can be stopped then continued

without creating a new ﬁle. Record Pause is useful for reporter interviews or any application that can

beneﬁt by stopping and starting recording without generating a new ﬁle. To use the Record Pause

feature:

1. Enter the Setup Menu. Press and hold the Battery Check button then press the Headphone Controller.

2. Navigate to the Setup Menu Function Record Pause (-18 LED on the Left Meter). Turn the Headphone

Controller to move through Setup Menu Functions. SVEN announces each function as you step through

the menu.

3. Enter the Setup Menu Function Record Pause (-18). Press the Headphone Controller to select a function.

4. Navigate among the available options. SVEN announces each available routing as you step through the

available options.

5. Select On (-24). Press the Headphone Controller to select an option. This will exit the selected Setup

Menu Function.

6. Exit the Setup Menu. Press any key other than the Headphone Controller to exit the Setup Menu.

7. Press the REC key to begin recording.

8. Pause the recording at any time by pressing the STOP key once. When paused the REC LED ﬂashes red.

9. Press the REC key again to continue recording.

10. Press the STOP key twice to ﬁnalize the recording. At this point, the ﬁle is available for Playback and the

next press of the REC key begins recording the next incremented take.

Please note that the Record Pause behavior will vary depending on the set Time Code mode. When

Time Code is set to Stamp File or Stamp File Auto Record, the Record Pause feature is ignored. This

prevents the event of offsets in time code. Record Pause is available when Time Code is set to Re-

place Left and Replace Right. This allows linear time code to be recorded to one of the audio tracks.

When set to Auto Record Replace Left or Auto Record Replace Right, the 552 begins recording when

the time code signal advances. When time code becomes stationary, the 552 stops and closes the ﬁle.

If the recording is manually stopped by pressing the stop button the recording is paused. If time

code is stopped then started again the recording continues recording. Press Stop twice at anytime to

stop and close the ﬁle. See Time Code for details.

Time Code

Time Code Mode is set to off at factory default. When Time Code Mode is set to off the 552 stamps a

start time code value that is derived from the time-of-day clock to the “BEXT” chunk of the recorded

WAV ﬁle and no frame rate information is written. When Time Code Mode is off, no time code infor-

mation is written to the “iXML” chunk of the recorded WAV ﬁle. MP3 ﬁles will have the start time

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