Owner's manual

Mac Syncman can regenerate or duplicate a SMPTE stripe. If the stripe

is fine and you need to copy it you should probably duplicate it. If the

stripe is damaged you will have to regenerate it.

When Mac Syncman is regenerating, this is all it is doing - it cannot

regenerate and sync at the same time. So if you need to sync to a badly

damaged SMPTE stripe you need to regenerate it and then sync to the

newly regenerated stripe.

Duplicating a Stripe

To duplicate a SMPTE stripe onto another track of your tape deck, you

need to route the Tape Out of the recorded sync track on your deck to

the Mac Syncman Tape In. Next, route the Mac Syncman Tape Out to

the Tape In of the track on your deck you would like to duplicate the

Sync stripe onto. Make sure the Mac Syncman Duplicate Switch is On

(Down). You are now ready to duplicate your recorded Sync stripe.

Put the track you are duplicating the sync tone to into record and put the

track you are reading the sync tone from into play. Now start your tape

deck and play through the entire sync tone you are duplicating. After

you are done duplicating the sync stripe remember to turn the Duplicate

feature off (Up).

IMPORTANT:

When duplicating a sync stripe, make sure your output

level is high enough to “fire” Mac Syncman’s reshaping circuitry. If the

Mac Syncman Tape Read LED flickers during duplication then the

duplicated stripe has some error. If you duplicate the damaged stripe

the error will also be duplicated.

Regenerating a Stripe

To regenerate a SMPTE stripe follow the instructions given above in

“Duplicating a Stripe.” However, instead of setting turning the

Duplicate switch On (Down), make sure to turn the Regenerator On by

setting its switch Down. No matter how badly the SMPTE stripe is dam-

aged regeneration will restore it to a usable condition.

IMPOR

TANT: Since the Mac Syncman cannot do any syncing when

the Regenerator is On (Down), you must set the Regeneration Switch

back Up after you are done regenerating.