Integra RDC-7.1 instruction manual Recording a Source, Recording Audio/Video While Playing

Recording a Source—Continued

Some steps can also be operated on the remote control- ler, but described here are operations on the RDC-7.1.

Notes:

•No surround effects can be recorded.

•No DVD or any sources whose copyright is protected can be recorded.

•There are some restrictions on recording of digital audio/video signals. Refer to the manual of your recording component.

•If recorded as analog signals, DTS signals are recorded as noise, so never record signals from a DTS-compatible CD or LD.

Input source buttons and indicators

Standby indicator

			AV Controller RDC-7.1
Rec/Zone 3	Setup	/ / /

Recording Audio/Video While Playing

Recording music or a movie you are currently playing. Operate on the RDC-7.1 in the main room.

1	Turn on the power supply to the RDC-7.1.
2	Check the connection to your recording
	component.
	An audio recorder should be connected to the
	AUDIO OUT or DIGITAL OUT jacks, and a
	video recorder to the VIDEO OUT jacks.
3	Check settings for a recorder connected.
	1. On the Setup menu (See page 95), select

“Speaker/Output Setup” → “Audio Output Assign,” and specify “Rec Out” as the setting for the jack to which your audio recording component is connected.

2. Similarly, select “Speaker/Output Setup” → “Video Output Assign,” and specify “Video XX Rec Out” as the setting for the jack to which your video recording component is connected.

3. Press the [Setup] button to close the menu.

Hint:

Since Zone 3 Out and Rec Out use the same cir- cuitry, audio recording is disabled if Zone 3 Out is specified. Audio/video recording is also dis- abled on the same component as that for playing.

4	Press the input source button to select
	the component for audio/video recording
	(player side).
5	Press the [Rec/Zone 3] button, and press it
	again within 3 seconds.

The “RecSel:SOURCE” is indicated in the dis- play window, and the indicator above the selected input source button lights in red.

Audio/video recording is enabled on the compo- nent for which “Rec Out” was specified in step 3.

6 Prepare the component for audio/video recording (recorder side).

•Put the component for audio/video recording into the recording standby status.

•You should adjust the recording level on the recording component.

•For how to record, refer to the manual of the recording component.

7 Start audio/video recording.

Play the component selected in step 4.

•Switching the source during audio/video recording will record the source newly selected.

•If you select FM (or AM) with the [Tuner] input source button when the recording source is set to AM (or FM), the output for the record- ing source also changes to AM (or FM).

Recording Audio/Video on a Component While Playing Another

You can record an audio source or a video on a compo- nent while playing another source on another compo- nent. For example, you can record a CD while watching a DVD. Operate this function the RDC-7.1 in the main room.

1 Turn on the power supply to the RDC-7.1 in MAIN A or MAIN B mode.

Proceeding to the next step in the Standby status makes the Zone 3 mode effective, so be sure to turn on the power source.

2 Check connections and settings to the recording component.

Refer to steps 2 and 3 in “Recording Audio/ Video While Playing” in the previous section.

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