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    DCD-PRO600 Pr ofessional Dual CD Player Operating Instructions Featuring: FLIP FLOP DCD-PRO600 DCD-PRO600 4295 Charter Street Los Angeles Ca. 90058 www .americandj.com Revised 2/03[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - DCD-PRO600™ Instruction Manual Page 2 CAUTIONS REGARDING HANDLING.................................................................................................3 PRODUCT INFORMA TION.....................................................................................................................[...]

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    NOTE: This pr oduct satisfies FCC regulations when shielded cables and connectors are used to connect the unit to other equipment. T o prevent electr omagnetic interference with electrical appliances such as radios and tele- visions, use shielded cables and connectors for connections. NOTE: This CD player uses a semiconductor laser . It is recommen[...]

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    ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, [...]

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    PRODUCT INFORMATION I. Heat - The CD player should be situated away from heat sources such as radiators, heat r egis- ters, stoves, or other appliances (including ampli- fiers) that produce heat. 2. Do not let insecticides, benzene, or thinner come in contact with the surface of the unit. 3. Never disassemble or modify your unit in any way , doing [...]

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    SET-UP © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - DCD-PRO600™ Instruction Manual Page 6 CUSTOMER SUPPORT Customer Support: American Audio ® provides a toll free customer support line, to provide set up help and to answer any question should you encounter problems during your set up or initial operation. Y ou may also visit us on the web at w[...]

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    • 8 times over sampling 1 bit D/A converter • Filter Effect • 20 Seconds Digital Anti-Shock Protection • 2 Coast Effect • 4 Programmable Cue Points or Samples • Auto cue Function (Sensitive to -48dB) • Reverse Playback (Unlimited) • Real-time Cue (“Cue on the Fly”) • Selectable Time Display • 4 different speed scan • S/PDI[...]

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    13 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS - REMOTE UNIT © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - DCD-PRO600™ Instruction Manual Page 8 A. REMOTE CONTROL - F ACE (FIGURE 3) 1. FIL TER/COAST/ADJUST - This button allow you to change the FIL TER and Coast values. With the FIL TER/COAST/ADJUST button selected (on) the FIL TER value is one second and the[...]

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    to the beginning of the disc. When the REV/PLA Y effect is selected a number 3 will appear in the LCD (14), indicating REV/PLA Y is active. See reverse play on page 24. 5. TIME - The TIME button is used to changed the displayed time values. Time can be displayed as elapsed track time, remaining track time, and total disc remaining time. 6. CUE BUTT[...]

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    15. (-) PITCH BEND - The (-) pitch bend function creates a momentary “Slow Down” in the CD’ s pitch speed (Beats per minute - BPM) when the PITCH (7) function is activated. This func- tions allows the beats between two CD’ s or any other music source to match. This is a momen- tary function. When the button is depressed the pitch speed will[...]

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    applied will be displayed in the LCD (14). Use this slider to match the BPM’ s of this unit to that of another music sour ce. By changing the pitch of one disc with r espect to the other in this way , the beats can be matched. 24. BPM BUTTON - This changes toggles between the PITCH function and BPM function indicators in the LCD. When the BPM fun[...]

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    GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS - PLAYER UNIT C. TRANSPORT UNIT - F ACE (FIGURES 5) 35. DRIVE 1 TRANSPORT TRA Y - This tray is used to load and load compact disc in to the drive 1 mechanism. The tray is opened and closed by pressing the DRIVE 1 OPEN/CLOSE BUTTON (36). Never attempt to force the transport tray open or closed when the power is tur ned[...]

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    ality . For more information on the Scratch Box refer to the Scratch Box manual. 41. DRIVE 2 REMOTE JACK - Connect the sup- plied 8 pin din cable from this jack to the remote control's channel 2 r emote connector . This will allow you to contr ol the player functions with the remote unit. 42. DRIVE 2 DIGIT AL OUT - This jack sends a digital st[...]

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    LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD) E . LCD DISPLAY (FIGURE 7 ) 5 0 . FUNCTION INDICATORS - These indicators serve two functions; Indicators 1-3 detail which effect is active, Indicators 6-9 detail a cue point stored in memory. 5 1. CUE INDICATOR - This indicator will glow when the unit is in CUE mode and will flash every time a new CUE POINT is recorded [...]

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    & 59). When the TOTAL REMAIN indicator is dis- played in the LCD (1 4), the time defined will refer to a disc's total remaining time. The time mode is changed by tapping on TIME BUTTON (5). 67 . SINGLE INDICATOR - This indicates the unit is in single play mode, the unit wil l play a single and return to CUE mode. If the single indicator is[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS Figure 8 © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - DCD-PRO600™ Instruction Manual Page 16 Figure 7 3 in. / 8cm disc 5 in. / 12cm disc 1. OPENING AND CLOSING THE DISC TRA Y/LOADING DISCS This is an electr onic operation and can only work when the power is on. Press the OPEN/CLOSE BUTTON (10) to open or close the disc tray . P[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT) 8. FRAME SEARCH This feature allows you to scr oll through a track to set a cue, starting sam- ple, or loop point. T o use the scroll function you must first be in Pause Mode or Cue Mode. Once you are in Pause or Cue mode, use your finger tip to turn the JOG WHEEL (19) to scr oll through the track (figur e 9). T urning the w[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT) Activating the Pitch Slider (23): T o activate the PITCH SLIDER (23), tur n the pitch function on. Pr ess the PITCH BUTTON (7) to turn on the pitch function, when the pitch function is activated a LED will begin to glow (or flash depending on what pitch per centage value is selected, see changing pitch values on page 18). If[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT) © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - DCD-PRO600™ Instruction Manual Page 19 12. PITCH BEND: This function will momentarily increase or decr ease a tracks playback speed. There are two ways to operate this function with the (-) & (+) PITCH BUTTONS (25) or with the JOG WHEEL (19). The maximum pitch bend percent[...]

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    13. SETTING and STORING a CUE POINT : Setting A Cue Point: A cue point is the exact point playback will begin when the PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (29) is pressed. A cue point may be anywhere on a disc or in a track. Y ou may set and store up to five independent cue points per disk. Four cue points are stored in the CUE MEMOR Y BUTTONS (6) and one in the I[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT) American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 21 14. CREA TING AND PLA YING A SEAMLESS LOOP A seamless loop is a sound loop that plays continuously without sound interruption. Y ou can use this loop to create dramatic effect in your mixing. This loop has no time limit and you could actually loop the entire[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT) American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 22 EXITING A LOOP - T o exit a SEAMLESS LOOP , press the OUT/EXIT BUTTON (28). The IN REAL-TIME CUE BUTTON (26) and OUT/EXIT BUTTON (28) LEDs will r emain on, but will stop flashing. Music play- back will resume normal play (Figure 25). The IN REAL-TIME CUE BUT[...]

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    BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT) American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 23 1) Be sure a disc is inserted in the drive and pr ess the DT A/FX(22) and PRG/HOLD FX (13) at the same time. Pr essing the DT A/FX(22) and PRG/HOLD FX (13) from any function will immediately pause the disc and enter the pr ogram mode. 2) After activating the[...]

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    American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 24 Reverse Play: Reverse play allows you to play a track, loop, or sample backwards. This function is activated by pressing the REV/PLA Y BUTTON (4) as in figure 34. This function will r eact differently to differ ent playback modes: - Reverse track/disc play . In this mode the unit w[...]

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    American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 25 T o FLIP-FLOP entire CDs: T o FLIP-FLOP an entir e disc, be sur e both drives are in continuous play mode. The SINGLE ICON (67) should not be displayed in the LCD (14). When both drives are in continuous play mode, follow the directions for single track FLIP-FLOP as detailed above.[...]

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    American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 26 BUIL T -IN EFFECTS: The DCD-PRO600™ comes with two built in effects. Only one ef fect may be used at any given time. The Built-in effects include FIL TER and Coast. When either effect is activated a corresponding icon will display in the LCD. For example when the FIL TER EFFECT ([...]

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    American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 27 ADVANCED OPERATIONS (CONT) FIL TER EFFECT : The filter is a type of dampening ef fect that tweaks with the harmonics of a track. This effect uses a low and high filter to distort the an audio track. The effect works with both the low and high filters simultaneously . T o activate t[...]

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    OPTIONAL SCRATCH BOX SET UP American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 28 R L GND DC 12V CLK OUT 1 CLK OUT 2 70 71 R L GND DC 12V CLK OUT 1 CLK OUT 2 72 73 74 76 75 75 70. PHO NO INPUT S - These are stereo phono inputs. Connect a turntab le 's output RCAs to these jacks. The right stereo channel is repre - sent ed b y the[...]

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    1. PRECAUTIONS ON HANDLING COMP ACT DISCS Compact disc ar e constructed of the same types of plastic r ecord are. T o avoid sever e damage to you valuable disc please observe the following guide lines. Following the these guide lines will ensure long disc life. • Do not allow fingerprints, oil or dust to get on the surface of the disc. If the dis[...]

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    2-YEAR LIMITED W ARRANTY A. Amer ica n Audi o ® he re by wa rra nts, to the orig ina l pur chas er , Amer ica n Aud io ® pr odu cts t o be f re e of manu fac tur ing defe cts in mat eri al an d work man shi p for a p erio d of 2 Y ear (730 d ays) fr om the date of pur chas e. This warr ant y sha ll be vali d only i f the pr odu ct is pur cha sed [...]

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    SPECIFICATIONS American Audio ® • DCD-PRO600™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 31 GENERAL Model: American Audio ® DCD-PRO600™ - Professional Compact Disc Player System: Dual, CD T ray Loading, Digital Compact Disc Audio Player . Disc type: Standard compact discs (5 in / 12cm and 3in/8cm discs) Dimensions: Player unit: 19” (W) x 3 15/32” (H)[...]

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    ©American Audio® A Division of the American DJ® Group of Companies American Audio® W orld Headquarters: 4295 Charter Street Los Angeles, CA 90058 USA T el: 323-582-2650 Fax: 323-582-2610 W eb: www .AmericanAudio.us E-mail: info@AmericanAudio.us[...]