Marantz Complete Guide to Using Your SR7400 Receiver

RECORDING AN ANALOG SOURCE

In normal operation, the audio or video source selected for listening through the SR7400 is sent to the record outputs.

This means that any program you are watching or listening to may be recorded simply by placing machines connected to the outputs for TAPE OUT,

CD-R/MD OUT, VCR1 OUT, and DSS/VCR2 OUT

in the record mode.

To record the input source signal you are currently watching or listening to

1.

	1.	TV	DVD	VCR	DSS
F/P
		TUNER	CD	CD-R	MD
		TAPE	AUX1	AUX2	AMP

1. Press the AUX1 input source button to set video output.

2. Press the CD input source button to set audio output.

3. Now “CD” has been selected as the audio input source and “AUX1” as the video input source.

Notes:

•If you change the input source during recording, you will record the signals from the newly selected input source.

•You cannot record the surround effects.

•Digital input signals are only output to the digital outputs. There is no conversion from digital to analog .

When connecting CD players and other digital components, do not connect only the digital terminals, but the analog ones as well.

SPEAKER A/B

	AV SURROUND RECEIVER SR7400
	SELECTOR				PREV		MUTE
						GUIDE
					MENU		EXIT
					TEST	CH.SEL	SURR
		CLEAR	MEMORY	TUNING	1	2	3
					7.1CH	ATT	SPK-AB
SELECT	ENTER				4	5	6
					DISP	OSD	SLEEP
	TV	DVD	VCR1	DSS/VCR2 AUX1	7	8	9
POWER ON/STANDBY	PHONES

CLEAR0 MEMO

SR7400 has speaker system - A and speaker system- B for front L/R channels.

You can select these systems by pressing SPEAKERS A/B button on the front panel or SPK- AB on the remote

2. If it is necessary to adjust the output level of each channel, use “7.1 Ch. INPUT LEVEL” in the OSD menu system as desired.

Adjust the speaker output levels so that you can hear the same sound level from each speaker at the listening position. For the front left, front right, center, surround left, surround right and surround back speakers, the output levels can be adjusted between –10 to +10 dB. The subwoofer can be adjusted between –15 and +10 dB.

These adjustments will be stored to 7.1 Ch. INPUT memory. (see to page 21)

3. Adjust the main volume with the MAIN VOLUME knob or the VOL buttons on the remote.

To cancel the 7.1 Ch. INPUT setting, press the 7.1 CH INPUT button on the front panel or press 7.1 CH on the remote.

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7.1 CH INPUT.

The SR7400 is equipped for future expansion

Notes:

1. Select the input source to record by pressing the corresponding input selector button. The input source is now selected and you may watch or listen to it as desired.

2. The currently selected input source signal is

output to the TAPE OUT , CD-R/MD OUT, VCR1

OUT, and DSS/VCR2 OUT outputs for recording.

3. Start recording to the recording component as desired.

Recording the video from one source and the audio from another

HT-EQ

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TV DVD VCR1 DSS/VCR2 AUX1 CD-R TAPE CD TUNER

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D1

D2

D3

D4

D5

MD

AMP

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through the use of Multi channel SACD multichannel player or DVD-Audio player.

When this is selected, the input signals connected to the L(front left), R (front right), CENTER, SL (surround left), SR (surround right), SBL (surround back left) and SBR (surround back right) channels of the 7.1 CH. In jacks are output directly to the front (left and right), center, surround (left and right) and surround back speaker systems as well as the pre-out jacks without passing through the surround circuitry.

In addition, the signal input to the SW (subwoofer) jack is output to the PRE OUT SW (subwoofer) jack.

The video input source is selected in the SETUP MAIN MENU to use this procedure. (Refer to 7.1

•When the 7.1 Ch. Input is in use, you may not select a surround mode, as the external decoder determines processing.

•In addition, there is no signal at the record outputs when the 7.1 Ch. Input is in use.

•SBL and SBR of the speaker terminals are emitted n o s i g n a l w h e n t h e S U R R O U N D B A C K SPEAKER is set NONE in SPEAKER SETUP menu. (See SPEAKER SETUP, page 18)

AUX2 INPUT

If you don’t need to connect 7.1 Ch. input terminals with multi channel decoder,

L(front left) and R (front right) inputs terminals are

You can add the sound from one source to the video of another source to make your own video recordings.

Below is an example of recording the sound from a

Press the AMP button and press the > button until PAGE2 is displayed. Press the HT-EQ (D5) button to turn on the HT-EQ mode.

CH INPUT LEVEL, page 21)

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available as AUX2 input.

In this case, You can connect additional audio source to AUX2 as other audio input terminals.

compact disc player connected to CD IN and the video from a video camera connected to AUX IN to video cassette recorder connected to the VCR1 OUT jack.

1.2.

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TUNING

F/P

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TV

DVD

VCR

DSS

TUNER

CD

CD-R

MD

TV

DVD

VCR1 DSS/VCR2

AUX1

CD-R

TAPE

CD

TUNER

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TAPE

AUX1

AUX2

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The tonal balance of a film soundtrack will be excessively bright and harsh when played back over audio equipment in the home. This is because film soundtracks were designed to be played back in large movie theater environments.

Activating the HT-EQ feature when watching a film made for movie theaters corrects this and restores the correct tonal balance.

PREV

MUTE

GUIDE

MENU

EXIT

TEST

CH.SEL

SURR

VOLUME

R

MEMORY

TUNING

F/P

MODE

DO

1

2

3

7.1CH

ATT

SPK-AB

1.

4

5

6

TUNING

F/P

MODE

DOWN

DISP

OSD

SLEEP

TV

DVD

VCR

DSS

DVD

VCR1 DSS/VCR2

AUX1

CD-R

TAPE

CD

TUNER

7

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9

MUTE

TUNER

CD

CD-R

MD

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AUX1

CD-R

TAPE

CD

TUNER

TAPE

AUX1

AUX2AUX2

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1. Press the 7.1 CH INPUT button on the front panel or press 7.1CH on the remote to switch the 7.1 channel input.

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