I have my empeg running through my Pioneer CD receiver for amplification. I have the volume on the empeg fixed at 0 and control the volume through the Pioneer. I would like to be able to use the Empeg remote to adjust the volume on my Pioneer receiver.

Is there such a device as an IR translator? It wouldn't have to even be learning...I could use hijack to figure out what the proper remote codes are and hard code it. I image some of you wizards could whip up a quick schematic with an IR sensor, an IR transmitter and a PIC controller (here I'm talking out of my @$$ because I have no idea what's really involved), unfortunately, I have not the skill. Anyhow, please comment on the plausibility of such a thing.

Other alternatives I've pondered are: getting a learning remote and run all of it off that one remote (undesirable because I like the size of the rio remote). Getting a pioneer remote and using it to control the empeg (undesirable because I lose my searching ability.) Another downside to both of those options is that I would no longer have the proper labeling on the remote and I'd have to memorize where all the new buttons are.