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Elements of the Surround Sound Display

When you select the Surround Sound display (see Figure 3-3), the left portion of the screen displays the level meters and the right portion of the screen displays the Surround Sound display. Use the Audio Displays submenu of the Configure menu to enable or disable the Dominance indicator and to select the type of Surround Sound filter: Linear (RMS) or A-weighting.

NOTE. Audio Surround Sound display courtesy of Radio-Technische Werkstaetten GmbH & Co. KG (RTW) of Cologne, Germany.

Audio Input Mapping Restrictions for Surround Sound Display

The Surround Sound display is restricted to using signals from only certain audio input channels. The factory default settings for mapping the audio inputs are the correct settings for using the Surround Sound display.

For embedded audio groups 1 and 2, the display only works when channels 1 and 2 are mapped to the L-R bars, channels 3 and 4 are mapped to the C-Lfe bars (the Lfe channel is ignored), and channels 5 and 6 are mapped to the Ls-Rs bars. Channels 7 and 8 are always ignored. Similar rules apply for embedded audio groups 3 and 4 and for the external AES audio inputs. You cannot remap the audio inputs when you are using the Surround Sound display.

Level meters

Surround Sound display

Surround sound filter setting

Meter Ballistics

 

Phantom source

readout

 

indicators

Peak Level indicator

 

Phantom source grid

 

50 = center of C and R

 

 

 

 

Center volume

Test Level indicator

 

indicator

 

 

Level meter scale

 

Dominance indicator

 

 

and units

 

 

In-bar warning

 

Total volume indicator

messages

 

Loudness grid

 

 

Level meter labels

 

10 dB per marker

 

 

Audio input source

 

AES Connector

 

 

I/O setting

Phase correlation meters

Correlation meter for Ls and Rs

Audio Presence readout

 

 

Figure 3- 4: Surround Sound audio display

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