What he said!!phono left and right
pre out main ins to receiver in outs .
or use tape in out to receiver in out
i stupidly made the assumption with it being marked receiver in and out .It has an expander. Placing it between the preamp outs and the power amp in will place the volume control in the circuit before the expander circuit, screwing up the operation of the expander, because the expander circuit is preset to decide on downward or upward expansion at a fixed level. Turning the volume down or up before the expander screws with the expansion algorithm. The only place in the chain that this will work properly is the tape in/out loop.
Well, unless the turntable has the stage built in, the bare tape loop won't do it, as it won't do the RIAA processing required for proper equalization and playback. I use an external phono deck for that here. Doing that allows me to place pretty much anything I want into that loop. Currently running a dbx decoder and a dbx SNR1 noise reduction before the external stage, all running through one of my tape loops.
Bonus - a lot of built in phono stages tend to suck. Even a cheepie like my Art DJ Pre II runs rings around anything else I got.
Is it as simple as someone saying...connect the pink 3 to the green 5 or whatever?
pink 5 6 7 8
green 1 2 3 4
@JulieGirl
G1 > P5
G2 > P6
G3 > P7
G4 > P8
Then, to route signal through the processor, you need to have Tape Mon 1 engaged on the receiver.
The turntable goes to Phono 1 (left and right) on the receiver. These jacks are not numbered in your picture.
When you select Phono 1 as the source, with Tape Mon 1 engaged, that should run your record player signal through the processor.
You'd also need to have the Source switch on the processor set to Receiver.
A picture of the front panel (or just listing make and model) of the receiver might be helpful to advise the exact naming of the settings.