User manual SONY ICD-UX523

[. . . ] You can direct jump Table of contents Recording files Utilizing your computer Troubleshooting Index GB  Table of Contents WARNING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Notice for users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Table of Contents Recording via Other Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Recording with an external microphone. . . . . 39 Recording from other equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Preparing the recorder Checking the Parts and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the Display Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Preventing Unintentional Operations (HOLD). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Maintaining the Moderate Volume Level (AVLS) (For European models only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Recharging the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Index Playing Files Basic Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Stopping playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Other operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Display when playing back a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Changing the Playback Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Recharging the battery using a computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Recharging the battery using a USB AC adaptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Inserting a Memory Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Turning the IC Recorder On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Setting the Clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Reducing noise in the playback sound and making the human voice clearer – the noise cut function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adjusting the playback speed – the DPC (Digital Pitch Control) function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Selecting the sound effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Selecting the playback mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Convenient playback methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Turning the power on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Turning the power off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Setting the clock after recharging the battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Setting the clock using the menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting a Recording Date from the Calendar and Playing Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Playing Back a File at a Desired Time with an Alarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Playback via Other Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Recording with other equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Setting the Language to Be Used in the Display Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Selecting a Folder, File, Tab, and Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Erasing Files Erasing a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Erasing All Files in a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Selecting a folder and a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Selecting a tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Selecting the memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Editing Files Arranging Files in a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using a Track Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Moving a file to a different folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Copying a file to the other memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Recording Files Basic Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Monitoring the recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Stopping the recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Other operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Selecting a recording scene for each situation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Tips for better recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Changing the Scene Select settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Changing the Scene Select setting to the default values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Changing the Recording Settings. . . . . . . . . . 34 Adding a track mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Erasing a track mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Erasing all the track marks in the selected file at one time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Dividing a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Dividing a file at the current position. . . . . . . . . . 64 Dividing a file at all the track mark positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Changing a folder name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Changing a file name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Starting to Record Automatically in Response to Sound – the VOR Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Renaming a Folder and a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Protecting a File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68  Listening to the FM Radio (ICD-UX522F/UX523F only) Tuning in an FM Radio Station. [. . . ] Selects the memory media on which you want to store a file, or which contains the file you want to play, edit, or copy. Built-In Memory*: The built-in memory of the IC recorder is selected. Memory Card: The memory card inserted in the memory card slot is selected. Note Select Memory (IC recorder setting) ( p. 29) When no memory card is currently inserted in the IC recorder, the built-in memory is automatically selected. 90 About the Menu Function Tabs Menu items Settings (* : Initial setting) Table of Contents Language (IC recorder setting) ( p. 26) Sets the language to be used for messages, menus, folder names, file names, etc. Deutsch (German), English, Español (Spanish), Français (French), Italiano (Italian), Русский (Russian), (Korean), (Japanese), (Chinese), (Thai) (Chinese), Note Index Number of language options you can select and the default setting differ depending on the country or region you purchased your IC recorder. 24) Auto(Synchronizing)*: When the IC recorder is connected to a computer that is running the Sound Organizer, the clock will be automatically adjusted according to that computer. Manual: Sets the clock by setting year, month, day, hour, and minute in sequence. 12-Hour: 12:00AM = midnight, 12:00PM = noon 24-Hour: 0:00 = midnight, 12:00 = noon Note Time Display The default setting differs depending on the area you purchased your IC recorder. ON*: A beep will sound to indicate that an operation has been accepted or an error has occurred. OFF: No beep sound will be heard. Note The alarm sounds even if you set “Beep” to “OFF” in the menu. 91 About the Menu Function Tabs Menu items Settings (* : Initial setting) Table of Contents (IC recorder setting) USB Charge Sets whether battery will be charged using a USB connection or not. OFF: The battery will not be charged. Note Index If you use a USB AC adaptor (not supplied) to connect the IC recorder to the AC outlet ( p. Auto Power Off If the IC recorder is on and left for the period you have set, the IC recorder turns off automatically. OFF: The IC recorder will not be turned off automatically. 92 About the Menu Function Tabs Menu items Settings (* : Initial setting) Table of Contents (IC recorder setting) Format Formats the memory media currently selected (the built-in memory or the memory card), erasing all the data in the memory and resetting the folder structure to its default status. Execute: The “Formatting. . . ” animation appears and the memory media will be formatted. Cancel: The memory media will not be formatted. Notes Index  Use the IC recorder formatting function to format the memory media.  Switch the memory media to the one to be formatted before you start the format operation ( p.  When you format the memory media, all the data which you have stored on the media will be erased. Once the memory media has been erased, you cannot retrieve the data that was erased.  When you format the built-in memory, the operating instructions stored in the built-in memory will also be erased. To get another copy of the operating instructions, please visit the Sony support home page depending on your area ( p. System Information Displays the IC recorder model name and the version number of the software. 93 About the Menu Function Tabs Menu items Settings (* : Initial setting) Table of Contents (FM radio)*1 FM Radio*1 ( p. [. . . ] 57 Erasing all files in a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 79, 88 Erasing all the track marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63, 79, 87 Erasing a track mark . . . . . . . . . . 62, 79, 87 External microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 F FM radio Table of Contents Index Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 66, 97 Listening to the FM radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69, 70, 80, 93 Presetting FM radio stations automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 80, 93 Presetting FM radio stations manually . [. . . ]