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BlackRange Covert Premium Voice Recorder, QX5555

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INSTRUCTION MANUALBlackRange™ totally Covert Premium Voice

Recorder, QX5555Revised: May 14 2015

PRODUCT MANUAL BlackRange Covert Premium Voice Recorder, QX5555


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POWER ON/OFF

Indicator Light

USB Charger & Download Port

LED Light

Microphone

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ACCESSORIES

Included: USB cable

Optional: Power Adapter



CAUTION

Please Do Not Charge device via USB ports on a wall outlet. See image below:

USB ports on a Wall outlet might damage device due to potential variability of power from wall outlet

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Please Use USB cable included to either charge the device via your computer or via power adapter purchased

CAUTION

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1. Turning Voice Recorder On/Off: On: Quickly press Power button 2 times and then press it once for a long time until dark blue indicator light turns on for 3 seconds. Once the blue light turns off, the unit starts recording. Off: Quickly press Power button 4 times, and then press it once for a long time until dark blue indicator light flashes for 3 seconds. This will stop the unit from recording.

2. Battery indicator: The device allows you to check how much battery power is left in the unit. In order to achieve this, quickly press Power button once and then press it once for a long time until dark blue indicator light flashes 1 to 4 times. (1 flash indicates low battery, 4 flashes indicate high battery power.)

3. Voice Recording Status Check: The device allows you to quickly check if the device is on or off. Press Power Button for a long time. If the dark blue indicator light turns on for 3 seconds , this indicates the device is on.If dark blue indicator light flashes for 3 times, this indicates the device is off.

VOICE RECORDING

POWER ON/OFF

Indicator Light

USB Charger & Download Port

LED Light

Microphone

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PLAYING BACK RECORDINGS

Date Stamped Folder

VIA COMPUTER Your voice recordings are located inside the Date Stamped folders. Double click this folder to view your voice recordings.

You should COPY these files to your PC for archiving and best playback.

To create more storage space, you can delete the files from your device.

NOTE TO MAC USERS! When deleting files, you MUST empty your trash BEFORE you Eject the device from your Mac.

1. Connect USB cable to recorder and other end to computer. The red indica-tor light will turn on the recorder to show the con-nection is successful.2. A window will pop up. Open folder to view files or find the drive the unit is connected to and you will see the files to the left.3. Double click files to find your recordings. The voice recordings will be under Date stamped Folders. Double click the Date stamped Folder requested and the voice recordings will be displayed. 4. Here you can play, move or delete your files.

Date Stamped Folder



RECORD SETTING FILE

Record txt. can be found at the same place as Date Stamped Folders described in previous page. Double Click the Record.TXT to manipulate recording settings.

DOUBLE CLICK RECORD.TXT AND RECORD.TXT-Notepad will be displaced

IMPORTANT: This unit is already optimized for best recording. It is also defaulted to VOICE ACTIVATION MODE and to record when voice is heard, around the clock. It turn on and record when any voice is hear, and will pause and stay on standby when no sound is present. - Never delete the record.txt file under any circumstance- Only manipulate referenced numbers or letters if you have to. Do not manipulate anything else as this may cause errors.

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IMPORTANT: If you make any changes to features such as time, voice sensitivity, mute time, voice quality, record amplify and record time periods, YOU MUST change Update Setting to Y instead of N. That way, the system will update settings after U disk is exited.

System will not start update settings if it is set to N...

Update Settings needs to be changed to Y after the = sign for changes to take effect.



Device allows you to enter the current time for your recording needs. Current time is displayed as Year-Month-Day Hour-Minute-Second format.

For example: The current time at the preparation of the manual was April 13, 2015 at 6.12.00 pm.

TIME SETTINGS

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Device allows you to adjust voice sensitivity. The smaller the number for voice sensitivity the better it is at capturing lower level sounds.Voice Sensitivity Range: 0-50Default Rate: 10

Voice Sensitivity Setting here is set to default rate of 10

VOICE SENSITIVITY SETTINGS



This feature will allow you to choose how many minutes after conversation ends the device will go to a standby mode. You can choose between 0 to 999 minutes and the default rate used in this case is 3 minutes.

Mute Time Setting

MUTE TIME SETTINGS

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Device allows you to adjust voice quality. The higher the voice quality, the lower the stored audio hours will be. Rate 1: 32Kbps, 8G memory can store 580 hours audioRate 2: 64Kbps, 8G memory can store 290 hours audioRate 3: 192kbps, 8G memory can store 96 hours audio

Voice Quality Settings

VOICE QUALITY SETTINGS



Device allows you to adjust for long distance recording. Voice will be enhanced by amplifying record.Rate 1: Within 3.28 Feet rangeRate 2: Within 3.28-9.84 Feet rangeRate 3: Within 9.84-16.40 Feet rangeRate 4: Over 16.40 Feet range

For example, Rate 4 will amplify voice so it can detect sounds from over 16.40 Feet away

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SCHEDULED RECORDINGS SETTINGS

This section talks about how you can schedule recordings at specific times and dates of the week. The current default setting is set to record around the clock in voice acti-vation mode. Only manipulate the times of any specific day if you want to record for specific hours of the day or you want to skip a day.

Note: If you change the time , please ensure you maintain the format.

Skipping a day: If you like to skip a whole day of recording, you can do so by leaving it blank after the equal sign for the corresponding day.

Splitting a Day: You can split the recording time in a day to two time periods maxi-mum. For example, if you like to record between 8 to 12 in the morning and 2 to 6 in the afternoon on Saturday, the correct way to display that information will be Sat: 08.00-12.00, 14.00-18.00 .

Scheduled Recording Settings



Your Windows PC or Mac has built-in software that will play most of the files created by devices like yours. However, if you are having problems playing your files, or need more options, please download and try these programs.

You can find support and tutorials for these programs on their respective websites. SafetyBasement can not provide software support for these programs

As with ANY files you download from the internet, be sure to scan them for viruses using your particular virus scanner. While most users report no issues using this software, we can not be responsible for any damage caused by this software. Please proceed carefully. Back up your PC before installing any new software.

VIDEO PLAYBACK - VLC(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html)The VLC Media Player can play almost any video or audio file type. There is a version for Windows and for Mac OS X.

VIDEO EDITING for WINDOWS - MOVIE MAKER 2012(http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/get-movie-maker-download)Movie Maker is a simple video editing program from Microsoft. Please go to this link, and choose the download for your version of Windows. Please note: Movie Maker is part of the Windows Essentials package.

VIDEO EDITING for MAC OS X - iMOVIE(Visit the Apple Mac App Store for latest version)iMovie is a simple video editing program from Apple. It comes installed with your new Mac. The latest version is also available at the Mac App Store at additional cost.

AUDIO PLAYBACK and EDITING - AUDACITY(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)Audacity is a popular audio editing program used by amateurs and professionals to edit simple and complex audio projects. You can use Audacity to convert your audio files to another format, such as MP3. There is a version for Windows and Mac OS X.

PHOTOSYour Windows and Mac computers have the ability to do basic editing of photos built in.

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Format WaveBit Rate Mode ConstantBit Rate 32 Kbps, 64 Kbps, 192 Kbps,

Playback MP3, WAV* (* playback of WAV creat-ed on device)

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