VHS to DVD recorder

[Gunny]

Hi Gang

I have a older VCR machine, a Sony SLV 420 and a Panasonic DVD recorder, DMR-60S. Now on the back of the VCR it only has the Black and yellow RCA type connections for the video/audio in and out. The recorder has the normal red, white, and yellow. I have a cord that has the red,white, and yellow, on one end and a yellow and white connector on the other end. Now if I hook it up yellow to yellow and white to black on the VCR, and the corresponding connection, red, white, and yellow on the DVD recorder, I get picture no sound. I have seen a lot of the VCR machines with this color combination on the back of them. can I get around this. The VCR machine is a fairly good one with 4 heads and so forth, and used very little.

All I am wanting to do is copy some of my VHS tapes to a DVD disk.

Take care..........Gunny

[dreamking12]

It sounds like your VCR only has mono out, you should be getting sound in 1 channel tho. You can get a splitter at radio shack that will put the sound in both channels but it won't be stereo of course.
I would make sure you have it all plugged in right and go through the menu's on your VCR to see if maybe you need to enable the RCA out, otherwise I would plug the audio out into a stereo or such and see if there's any audio.

[dreamking12]

Actually after re-reading your post I bet the prob is the cable, use standard, seprate audio and vid cables & I bet it will work.

[Gunny]

Hi Dreamking

Thanks for the reply. So you are saying use a separate cable for the video and the audio. So back for the video, and it would not make any difference if I use the red or the white cable for the audio, being the VCR only has the one RCA for the audio, is this right?

Take care.........Gunny

[reboot]

In some cases, the Red is default, and white becomes useless, when going from black mono to stereo inputs.
I have always used Black to Red, yellow to yellow, and left the white hanging.
Set your capture software to record on the right channel only (if possible).
You can load the audio into something like Goldwave, and produce fake stereo by cloning the right chan to the left.

[dreamking12]

Hi,
The yellow connector is for video, you can use your existing cord. For the audio you need to either buy a 'Y' adapter if you alreay have a standard RCA cable or else an audio cable that converts mono to both channels (1 connector on one end, 2 on the other) Otherwise your sound is only going to come out of 1 speaker. Ideal of course is a VCR with stereo-out, probably not too much $$ at your local WalMart.