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Zone Turn-On Volume, Bass, and Treble Levels
When you initially turn a zone ON (that is, when you select a source in a zone which was previously off), the
zone will turn on at a specific Turn-On-Volume level. The Bass and Treble levels, however, will retain their
previous setting. The volume control provides smooth 2 dB steps, and varies from +6dB (loudest), to –64
dB (softest).
The Turn-On volume setting may be customized for each zone — it should be adjusted for a comfortable
volume level, but you may easily change it at any time using the RC-8’s Shift-Limit function. See the
Programming section for additional information.
Zone Volume/Bass/Treble/Mute Control
The Aris Controller uses the
Volume
Up/Down buttons to control the volume level for your (default) zone.
You have temporary zone access with these buttons also, for example, you may press
Zone-4-VolumeDown
to
turn down the kids in the other room.
Zone-0-VolumeUp/Down may be used to adjust volume in all zones at once.
This should be done carefully, since you
can only hear the volume level in the zone you are in. However, the system should be set up such that zone
speakers are never driven to damaging levels. Also, using customized turn-on volumes for each zone, the
zone volumes may be set to similar turn-on levels, resulting in a reasonably predictable whole-house
volume adjustment.
Pressing the
Mute
button will mute, or unmute, your (default) zone. Muting normally uses the gradual
volume ramping, as is used during source selection. When the zone unmutes, it returns to the volume level
it was at before muting (not the zone Turn-On level).
Whole-House muting is also available using Zone-0-Mute.
For fast response, volume ramping is not performed for whole-house muting. The muted level of each zone
is programmable (via the computer port) to any volume level (the factory setting is fully muted to -80 dB).
There are also some shifted buttons .
Bass
and
Treble
adjustments for the zone are available as shifted
(two-button code) Channel and Volume buttons, respectively (that is, Shift-Channel and Shift-Volume).
Flat
(Shift-Rew) will restore bass and treble levels to the unmodified (0dB) state.
Infrared Source Device Control
In the RC-8’s
Audio/Video mode
, there are eight selectable Device “keyboards” for infrared control codes.
Most buttons are labeled with standard commands (Play...) which will correspond to the IR devices in your
system. There are also four general-purpose “function” buttons, F1 - F4, which may be used for less-
frequently used infrared commands, for example, PIP, VCR tracking, surround modes, etc. You may identify
these F1-F4 buttons (for each of the eight devices) on the optional RC-8’s rear-panel label if you wish.
When the Controller receives the command to play back a previously-learned infrared code, the front-panel
INFRARED
light will flash. The rear-panel IR Blaster light will also flash indicating that an IR code is being
sent out the Blaster port; If the selected IR device was 1 to 6 (Tuner to Laser), the corresponding IR Emitter
port will also be active. IR Devices 7 and 8 (Tape 1 and Tape 2) are controlled from the blaster port
(typically a dual-emitter cable).
If the Controller receives the command to play back an infrared code which was not previously-learned (an
empty IR code location), the front-panel
INFRARED
and
ERROR
lights will flash together.
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