Other Operations

Recording from Audio Components

The following operations show you how to record audio to the cassette, DAT, or MD deck connected to the MD/TAPE 1 or TAPE 2 MONITOR jacks.

memo The receiver’s volume, balance, tone (BASS, TREBLE, and LOUDNESS), and surround effects have no effect on the recorded signal.

RECEIVERTV

MUTING

 

TV

FQ

FUNC

 

+

 

 

ENTER

 

FQ

VOLVOL

CHANNEL

MULTI CONTROL

DVD/LD TV/SAT CD

VCR 1

TV CONTROL

TUNER

VCR 2

RECEIVER

MD/TAPE

 

DSP MODE

 

MIDNIGHT

1

2

3

4

CH.SELECT

TEST TONE

ATT

SIG.SELECT

5 6 7 8 SIG. SELECT

 

CN.LEVEL

 

EFFECT

 

9

0

+10

MEMU

1

 

 

CLASS TV/VCR

FUNCTION

 

DIRECT

FL DIMMER

MODE CHECK

 

 

COMMANDER

 

 

SET UP

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AUDIO/VIDEO PRE-PROGRAMMED

REMOTE CONTROL UNIT

SIGNAL SELECT

TAPE 2

1 MONITOR

1 Select the component you want to record.

Press SIG. SELECT on the remote or SIGNAL SELECT on the front panel to select “ANALOG” when making analog recordings, or “DIGITAL” when making digital recordings. (Refer to “Switching ANALOG/DIGITAL signal input” on page 29.)

2 Prepare the program source.

(Tune in the radio station or load the CD, etc.)

3 Insert a blank tape into the cassette deck (MD/TAPE 1 or TAPE 2 MONITOR) and adjust the recording level (if necessary).

4 Start recording on the cassette deck, then start playback from the source component.

Record monitor (TAPE 2 MONITOR)

If you connect a cassette deck (etc.) with a record monitor function to the TAPE 2 MONITOR jacks, you can listen to the sound of the recording as it is being recorded.

Press TAPE 2 MONITOR to switch between the sound of the recording (TAPE 2 indicator on) and the sound of the source component (TAPE 2 indicator off).

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• This receiver outputs the input signal directly to the recording

device. As there is no conversion of the audio signal,

 

 

recordings cannot be made from analog to digital, and similarly

 

from digital to analog.

Recordings cannot be made from TAPE 2 MONITOR to MD/TAPE 1.

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Pioneer VSX-21 Recording from Audio Components, Record monitor Tape 2 Monitor, Select the component you want to record

VSX-21 specifications

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