Sanyo ICR-A190M Manual

Using the Sanyo Digi-RecorderModel: Sanyo ICR-A190M (Silver)Ralph Cullimore, e-Learning Co-ordinatorDevon ACLMay 2007IntroductionThe Sanyo ICR-A190M is a digital voice recorder that can be used to record speech andthen play it back again. The speech is recorded ‘digitally’ to the built-in electronic memoryin the form of ‘MP3’ files. A large number of MP3 files can be stored on the recorder andthen found again easily for playback. The ICR-A190M has 4 ‘folders’ within its memory,labelled A, B, C and D to allow recorded files to be grouped together to make finding them alittle easier. Files can be readily transferred from the recorder to a computer from wherethey can be burned onto a CD, emailed to someone or simply kept for future reference. Aswell as A, B, C and D, there is also a fifth folder reserved just for ‘music’ files copied acrossfrom a computer for playback via the ICR-A190M.The recorder itself is small– about 11cm x 3cm x 2cm – and powered by two AAA batteries.It has 128 MB of memory and each of the 5 folders can hold up to 99 separate recordingfiles. The maximum total length of the recordings on the recorder is around 4¼ hours at‘High Quality’ or around 7 hours at ‘Standard’ recording quality. There is a small built-inspeaker which is useful for giving immediate reassurance that the recording was successful.There is also an ‘earphone’ socket which can be used for individual listening or used toconnect the device to larger, powered, speakers for playback to a group.Part A - Setting it UpA1. Inserting the BatteriesTurn the recorder over and slide the battery cover off in the direction shown under the word‘OPEN’. Insert two AAA alkaline batteries as indicated by the markings in the batterycompartment (ie flat ends of batteries against springs) then slide the battery cover back on.A2. Turning On and OffThere is via a slider switch on the back of the recorder labelled POWER/HOLD.Sliding this switch one way turns the unit ON.What happens when you slide the switch the other way depends on what you are doing atthe time. If the recorder is doing nothing, then sliding the switch simply turns it OFF.However, if you are recording something, or playing something back, the switch puts therecorder into ‘Hold’ mode – see next section. To get out of Hold mode, slide the switchback again.Auto-off. If you leave the recorder on but don’t do anything for around 15 minutes it willautomatically turn itself off, although the slider switch remains in the same position. Slidethe switch back then forwards and the unit should return to normal.R Cullimore - Using Sanyo icr-a190 digi-rec v4 - 1 May 07.doc Page 1 of 8