Listening To Prerecorded Surround Material - Sony DMX-R100 Quick Reference

Listening to Prerecorded Surround Material

There are two basic ways to use your DMX-R100 to listen to prerecorded surround material such as DVDs,
multichannel SACDs, or encoded CDs. The simplest method is to simply assign six inputs to the EXT
MONITOR inputs in the Audio Input Routing window; however this does not allow you to selectively solo or
cut individual speaker channels or to apply equalization or dynamics processing. This exercise demonstrates the
alternate method — using six channel inputs, allowing you to solo, cut, or apply equalization or dynamics
processing to individual speaker channels.
1
Make all interconnections between the Control Room outputs and your surround speakers, and then set
up your DMX-R100 for surround monitoring, as described on the preceding pages.
2
Connect the 5.1 outputs from your DVD player, SACD player, or Dolby Digital™ or DTS™ decoder to
six AD inputs of the DMX-R100.
3
Go to the Input/Pan/Assign window and access the channel receiving the front left signal. Assign it to
MTR bus 1 only (turn off all other bus assignments) and touch the Surround Position button
immediately below the Surround pan display. The following drop-down menu will appear: (See Figure 4)
4
This abstract menu presents nine preset static pan positions, showing the signal as a small red square.
Select the front left position (upper left-hand corner) for this channel.
5
While still viewing the Input/Pan/Assign window, access the channel receiving the front right signal.
Assign it to MTR bus 2 only (turn off all other bus assignments) and, from the Surround Position drop-
down menu, select the front right position (upper right-hand corner) for this channel.
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Appendix B Surround Applications
Figure 4