Marantz CDR-630 Professional CD Recorder

Superscope Technologies is pleased to announce the latest addition to its family of stand alone CD recorders. The CDR630 continues the Marantz Professional tradition of products that are feature rich, easy to use and provide exceptional performance. Additionally, the CDR630 is designed to provide the audio professional with an economical way to record CDs for a variety of application environments including mastering, duplication, digital editing and archiving.

Feature set:

Inputs include analog XLR and RCA, digital coaxial and optical . Outputs include analog RCA, digital coaxial and optical. Built-in Sample Rate Converter (SRC) with 44.1 kHz SRC Bypass. Auto start (One Track or Whole Disc), Auto and Manual Track Incrementing. CD/DAT/MD Track ID reader. Headphone with Level Control. Full function IR Remote. Complete Orange and Red Book recording compatibility. Recordings ignore Serial Copy Management System (SCMS). Professional or consumer write-once or rewritable recordable discs may be used for recording.

Mastering applications:

A wide array of inputs and outputs are included to allow easy integration into almost any recording environment. Digital signals from sources such as CD, DAT, MD, and PCs can be directly input via either a Coaxial or optical connection. A built-in Sample Rate Converter (SRC) allows any frequency between 32-48kHz to be input and converted to the CD standard of 44.1kHz. In cases where the input is exactly 44.1kHz, the CDR630 has been specially designed to bypass the SRC, thus allowing an exact copy of the source to be made. Analog sources such as tape decks and mixing boards can be input to the CDR630 via either an unbalanced (RCA) or balanced (XLR) connection.

Synchronization with the source is achieved in a number of ways. A DAT/CD/MD subcode converter is built-in to allow the CDR630 to automatically set the track numbers from these sources (via a digital connection). The CDR630 can also automatically start recording, producing a copy of one track or a whole tape or disc.

Duplication applications:

The CDR630 offers exceptional flexibility in duplication applications. The currently available small scale CD-R duplication systems geared to studios, are limited in their choice of source material and programmability. Furthermore, the studio is limited to a predetermined number of recorders in the system, which limits the user's flexibility. On the other hand, the CDR630 offers a modular approach that be exactly matched to the studio's need. By simply daisy chaining (digital out from one deck to digital in on the next deck) several CDR630s together, the studio can set to their exact needs. Alternatively, a set up of, say six CDR630s, can be used to simultaneously record in six different rooms or three copies in two rooms or, well you get the picture. And one more point. You will find that the flexibility the CDR630 gives you in duplication comes at almost the same price as current small scale integrated CD-R duplication systems.

Digital editing applications

The CDR630 with it's rewritable functionality finally allows studios the opportunity to perform digital track editing in CD format, without the need to revert to DATs, Hard Disks or other unconventional (in terms of playback compatibility) digital formats.

By simply linking two CDR630s, the studio can now use the first deck for initially recording, erasing and re-recording one or a series of tracks. The CDR630 is the first professional CD-R recorder to permit use of CD-RW rewritable discs. (Note: CD-RW discs can only be played back on a rewritable drive or a drive that has Multi-Read capability.) After the studio engineer is satisfied they have a finalized track/disc, they can then copy onto the second deck using a write-once disc, which after being finalized, can be played in any red book compatible CD player (i.e. virtually all portable, home, studio CD players).

Archiving applications

With the current prices on blank write-once discs, studios can finally offer a wide range of commercial (e.g. A/V depts. of Corporations), institutions (e.g. multi-media, music dept. of K-12 schools), houses of worship to name just a few an unbeatable archiving resource. Not only do CDs offer all the traditional advantages of disc versus tape (analog or digital), but they also offer a storage life of over 100 years. Finally, CDs are compatible with the accelerating trend of the above mentioned end users' adoption of PC based multi-media systems.