Setting Up and Optimizing the Audio

The following steps ensure optimal sound is achieved by configuring the PVS 204SA properly. For each step, refer to the sections indicated for more information.

Steps for optimizing the audio

1. Ensure all the settings are at default. These are the settings the PVS has upon initial power up. The default settings are as shown below.

Volume is set at 50%.

Bass and treble are set at 0.

Power Amplifier level is set to 50% (default level is 0 dB).

Loudness control is set to Off.

NAmplifier level and volume level are not the same adjustments. Volume can only be adjusted by RS-232 or with a potentiometer connected to the rear panel port labeled “DC Vol”. Amplifier level is adjusted via the front panel encoder.

2. Ensure that the PVT transmitters are connected to the PVS and that there is an audio input source present at each of the transmitters. Refer to the transmitters’ user’s manual for installation/connection information.

3. Ensure a set of speakers are connected to the PVS 204SA. See chapter 2, “Installation”, “Speaker Configuration” section, for details.

4. Slowly adjust the volume to 100% via RS-232, by having the MLC increase the volume, or by a potentiometer connected to the DC Volume port on the rear panel. If an MLC 104 IP Plus is connected to the PVS, simply rotate the volume knob clockwise until it is at full volume.

5. Adjust the input sensitivity for one input through the front panel or by RS-232 to a level just below where audio input is clipped. See the sections “Individual channel input sensitivity control” and “Clipping indicator”, later in this chapter, for details. Repeat for all four inputs.

NAdjusting input sensitivity for all inputs ensures that all inputs are at the same level, and at the highest level possible before clipping occurs. Step 5 ensures that when the volume is at 100%, the audio signal will not clip.

6. When adjustments to all four inputs’ sensitivity settings have been made, adjust the amplifier level. Increase or decrease the amplifier level very slowly by turning the front panel level encoder counterclockwise until the desired level is reached.

NIf the volume is at 100% through the MLC and the output on the speakers is too loud, reducing the amp level using the front panel encoder is recommended. This ensures that the volume will not be too loud, even when set at 100%.

7.

Fine tune the audio by making adjustments to the bass, treble, and loudness

 

until the desired settings are reached. See “Bass, treble, and loudness

 

control”, later in this chapter.

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