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 Dolby
Digital™ or DTS™-encoded DVDs. 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 in the sections above.
2
Connect the 5.1 outputs from your 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 immediate-
ly 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