Marantz PMD560 user guide

PMD560

Pro-Installation Solid-state Recorder

Product Overview:

For the past few years Marantz Professional’s solid state recorders have been revolutionising the worlds of broadcasting,

journalism, and portable recording. With no moving parts, solid state technology has made repair and maintenance practically

a thing of the past. Now Marantz Professional brings the flexibility and reliability of this format to the installation market at an

affordable price-with the PMD560. More and more, audio is being delivered online, through email, webcasts, and pod-casts.

The equipment you install has to be capable of rendering your audio in the high-quality digital formats that end users want,

need, and expect. The PMD560 is designed precisely for this purpose. Mounting into an economical 1U rack space, the

PMD560 records audio directly to an inexpensive Compact Flash card. It can easily be configured to record mono or stereo in

two of the most common data formats, PCM (uncompressed) and .mp3. If you use more than one format, the PMD560 offers

three programmable presets for your favourite setups - press one key and the PMD560 is configured to your specifications.

RS-232 is provided for machine control and automation, while editing and playlist creation can be done directly from the front

panel. We’ve even included a USB connector on the front panel to facilitate transfer of sound files to your PC.

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Solid State Technology

By storing audio data on Compact Flash (CF) media cards all of the mechanical hassles of tape recorders are gone forever - as are the

costs of servicing and maintaining them. Not only that, but CF storage allows you to choose different recording formats, and makes

transferring audio files to computers as simple as sending an email.

Long Record Times

No more switching tapes! A single 1 GB flash card can hold up to 36 hours of uninterrupted audio (monaural .mp3 at 64 kbps).

For music recording, the same size card can hold more than 17 hours high-quality compressed stereo (.mp3 at 128 kbps). If you need

the unmatched quality of uncompressed audio, you can get about one and a half hours worth of 16-bit linear PCM audio at 44.1 kHz

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Using older technology, preparing your final product was an involved process, sometimes involving multiple steps of transfer and

format conversion. With the PMD560, you record in the format you need, and moving that recording to a computer is easy. In some

cases, it's as simple as pulling the CF card from the PMD560 and plugging it into the card reader on your computer. Alternatively, you

can use the USB port on the front panel to transfer audio files to a PC. It's already in your format of choice, so once it's in your

computer, it's ready to post to the web, burn to a CD, or edit in your favourite software package.

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Exclusive-"Virtual Track" Mode

You can also make your edits and playlists on the PMD560. Marantz Professional's exclusive "Virtual Track" mode allows you to

create up to 99 virtual tracks-internal playlists of audio segments. You simply tell the PMD560 what segments of a file to play, and in

what order, and it does it-without altering the original file in any way, and without using up more card memory. Need to webcast part

of a meeting to your sales team? Want to play a few interview segments during your presentation? What about podcasting the six

best songs from the holiday concert? Editing is easy with virtual tracks.

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