Manual audio control, Recording audio only, Selecting the sound track – Philips VR700/58 User Manual

Page 29

Using your video recorder remote control
with your TV set

Your video recorder remote control can transmit several
commands to TV sets of different makes.
By using the TV buttons on the panel in the middle of the
control, you can:

increase the TV volume

reduce the TV volume

TV y

switch off sound

TV m

switch off the TV set

TV q

next programme number

TV r

previous programme number

Hold the

TV m

button and enter the correct remote

control command with the digit buttons

0-9

You will find a list of all available remote control
commands on the last page of this manual.

D If the selected code does not work with your TV set,

or if the make of your TV is not in the list, you can try
out the codes one after the other.

Manual audio control

With the

MANUAL

button you can switch to manual audio

control.

Press the

MANUAL

button on the video recorder. The

current selection appears in the display.

Keep pressing the

MANUAL

button until ’MAN’ (manual

audio control) appears in the display.

With the

PROGRAMME ;

and

PROGRAMME =

buttons on

the video recorder adjust the recording level so that the
’0 dB’ mark lights up during the loudest parts of the
recording.

D At step

you can switch back to ’AUTO.’

(automatic audio control) with the

MANUAL

button.

Recording audio only

You can use your video recorder as a HiFi tape recorder. You
can record the sound from e.g. a HiFi unit or a second video
recorder.

Switch on the TV set and select the programme number
for the video recorder.

Put a cassette in the machine.

Use a audio cable (cinch cable) to connect your HiFi
(stereo) unit with the

AUX IN L R

socket at the back of the

video recorder.

D You can also use the

EXT.1 AV 1

EXT.2 AV 2

sockets or the front

L AUDIO R

sockets for

audio-only recordings.

Select the programme number from which the ’only
audio’ recording should be made, using the

P ;

P =

button (e.g.: ’AUX’ for the

AUX IN L R

socket.

Press the

button. The main menu appears.

Select the line ’RECORDING FUNCTIONS’ with the

P =

P ;

button and confirm with the

button.

Select the line ’AUDIO ONLY’ with the

P =

P ;

button and confirm with the

button.

To start sound recording, press the

RECORD/OTR n

button.

To stop recording, press the

STOP h

button.

To end, press the

button.

Selecting the sound track

You can select the required sound track. This is of particular
interest when the audio transmissions are multilingual.

Press the

SELECT.

button. The current setting will

appear on the TV screen.

By pressing the

SELECT.

button several times you can

select from the five possibilities displayed (’STEREO’,
’RIGHT’, ’LEFT’, ’MONO’, ’MIXED’).

D Dubbed sound recordings can be replayed with the

’MONO’ or ’MIXED’ setting.
’MONO’: Dubbed (linear) sound track.
’MIXED’: Original sound (hi-fi sound track) together
with dubbed sound (linear sound track).

D If the cassette does not have stereo sound recorded

on it, the video recorder will automatically switch to
mono.