Cmss 3D: Simulating Surround Sound; Audio Clean-Up: Removing Noise And Distortion - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 User Manual

CMSS 3D: Simulating
Surround Sound
Audio Clean-up:
Removing noise and
distortion
❑ Studio Effects can add standard distortion, wah, delays and chorus effects to an
electric guitar or other musical instrument.
❑ Environmental Effects simulate typical acoustic environments like stadiums,
concert halls, and jazz clubs. By choosing an effect like "concert hall", you can
make any music sound like it is being produced inside a concert hall, with all the
characteristic echos and reverbration. Various settings let you vary the type of
effect, amount of effect applied, and others. If you have connected rear speakers
to your computer, EAX will trick your ears into believing that your room has
turned into a concert hall or jazz club. EAX becomes more effective as the number
of speakers connected is increased. It supports up to 6 speakers and one
subwoofer.
❑ Karaoke Effects let singers add high-quality echo to add richness to their voices.
Users can also vary the music's pitch to suit their vocal range.
Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) 3D makes ordinary two-channel (Left and
Right Stereo) sound seem to surround you, even through only two speakers. For
users with 5.1 or 6.1 multichannel speaker systems, CMSS can also simulate
surround sound from ordinary stereo. This is useful for watching DVDs and VCDs,
which contain only stereo soundtracks.
Select CMSS for multichannel audio enhancement on 4/4.1, 5.1 or 6.1 speaker
systems, and CMSS2 for movies.
Note: For a 4/4.1-speaker system, audio for your subwoofer is processed by the speaker
system.
Audio Clean-up allows you to process prerecorded as well as real-time audio, in
order to remove noise, click sounds and other artifacts. For example, when
recording music from old vinyl records, "click" and "pop" sounds can be removed
with the Clean-up feature. The Click Meter informs you whenever the noise clean-
up feature is activated during recording and also how many clicks are removed.
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