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Cassette Deck/VCR Features
You can connect two cassette decks to the receiver. Selecting either
VCR/TAPE 1
or
TAPE 2 MONITOR
lets you hear the playback from the cassette deck you con-
nected to the receiver’s corresponding (
VCR/TAPE 1
,
TAPE 2 MONITOR
) jacks.
Using the VCR/TAPE 1 and
TAPE 2 Monitor Buttons
Press
VCR/TAPE 1
.
VCR
appears on the display. You hear the playback from the
cassette deck or VCR you connected to the receiver’s
VCR/TAPE 1
jacks.
Press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
.
TAPE 2
appears on the display along with the last pro-
gram source you selected. You can hear playback or monitor a recording from
the cassette deck you connected to the receiver’s
TAPE 2 MONITOR
jacks. The
TAPE 2 MONITOR REC
jacks continue to output sound from the previously selected
source when you press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
.
To return to the previous source, press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
again so
TAPE 2
disap
-
pears.
Notes:
• If you press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
when the cassette deck is neither playing nor
recording, the receiver mutes the current audio source. To hear the audio
source, press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
so
TAPE 2
disappears from the display.
• Do not press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
while you are recording on the deck con-
nected to
TAPE 2 MONITOR REC
. If you do, the recording is interrupted for
about 1 second.
Recording an Audio Source
The receiver sends the audio of the program source you select—
VCR/TAPE 1
,
TAPE 2 MONITOR
,
DVD/TV
,
LD/SAT
,
CD
,
TUNER
,
PHONO
, or
VIDEO
—to the
VCR/TAPE 1
OUT
(audio) and
TAPE 2 MONITOR REC
jacks.
Dubbing a Cassette Tape
You can copy, or dub, a cassette tape from one cassette deck to another.
You can use either deck as the playback or recording deck. However, if you
want to monitor the cassette deck during dubbing, use the deck connected to
the
VCR/TAPE 1
jacks as the source, and the deck you connected to the
TAPE 2
jacks as the recording deck. Then press
TAPE 2 MONITOR
so
TAPE 2
appears on
the display to hear the recording. See “Using the VCR/TAPE 1 and TAPE 2
Monitor Buttons.”
Note:
The
VOLUME
,
BALANCE
, and tone controls do not affect the signal going to
the tape decks.