No Volume - VCR/SKY connection - pls can anyone help?

waterwatereverywhere

Hi,

We have connected up an old VCR to our Sky box so we can record occasionally onto it.

When we switch on the VCR we get picture but no sound. It records okay but again on playback there is picture but no sound.

We have connected it like this:

Scart from TV to Sky+ box,

Scart from Sky+ box (marked VCR) to Scart socket in VCR.

We've set the VCR to the Aux channel and it picks up the picture fine but no sound.

Please does anyone know where we're going wrong?

Many thx in advance!

waterwatereverywhere

Hi,

Just bumping this - would be really grateful if anyone can help us solve the volume problem...

Many thx.

vfish

This is might be a faulty pin on the scart? Have you got another cable you can try?

waterwatereverywhere

Hi there,

Many thx for your reply - we tried swapping around the SCART cables but the result is the same - still no volume but picture is fine (and we know the other SCART cable is working fine because it produces volume when linking the Sky+ box to the TV).

Very mysterious... but then we're not too technical..!

googler

Does the VCR have a headphone socket or RCA audio outputs (red & white twin phono sockets)?

If so, either connect headphones or other audio gear to the phonos and see if you get output there.

Does the VCR have automatic gain control or manual? If the latter, is the input volume set to minimum?

The make and model of VCR and TV might help.

With either a tape you've just recorded, or a known 'good' tape, what happens if you connect the VCR DIRECTLY to the TV with one of your SCART leads, rather than leaving it to connect via the Sky box?

spike7451

Try an RF Aerial cable & if the is more than one scart socket on the VCR,try that one.Also try connecting the sky box to the VCR using the other scart socket,not the VCR one.

waterwatereverywhere

Hi Googler and spike7451

Just to say many thanks for your advice - we tried the RF cable thingy and that has sorted it all out wonderfully! Great to have this up and running, until we can afford to move into the modern era and buy a new fangled PVR thingammy...!