Yamaha DSP-AX750SE Editing Sound Field Parameters, What is a sound field, Early reflections

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EDITING SOUND FIELD PARAMETERS

EDITING SOUND FIELD PARAMETERS

What is a sound field

 

Changing parameter settings

 

 

 

What really creates the rich, full tones of a live instrument are the multiple reflections from the walls of the room. In addition to making the sound “live”, these reflections enable us to tell where the player is situated, and the size and shape of the room in which we are sitting.

Elements of a sound field

In any environment, in addition to the direct sound coming straight to our ears from the player’s instrument, there are two distinct types of sound reflections that combine to make up the sound field:

Early reflections

Reflected sounds reach our ears extremely rapidly (50 ms

100 ms after the direct sound), after reflecting from one surface only — for example, from the ceiling or a wall. Early reflections actually add clarity to the direct sound.

Reverberations

These are caused by reflections from more than one surface — walls, ceiling, the back of the room — so numerous that they merge together to form a continuous sonic “afterglow”. They are non-directional, and lessen the clarity of the direct sound.

Direct sound, early reflections and subsequent

You can enjoy good quality sound with the factory preset parameters. Although you do not have to change the initial settings, you can change some of the parameters to better suit the input source or your listening room.

 

TRANSMIT

 

RE-NAME CLEAR

LEARN

 

REC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUDIO

 

 

 

SYSTEM

STANDBY

 

INPUT MODE

 

DISC SKIP

 

 

 

 

 

POWER

SLEEP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FREQ/RDS

 

EON

 

 

 

A

B

PHONO

MULTI CH IN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MODE

PTY SEEK

START

 

 

 

V-AUX

TUNER

MD/CD-R

CD

 

LEVEL

 

SET MENU

MUTE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TITLE

TV VOL

MENU

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV INPUT

A/B/C/D/E

 

 

DTV/CBL

VCR 1

DVR/VCR2

DVD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CH

TV MUTE

CH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECT

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESET

 

PRESET

 

 

 

 

 

SELECT

5

TEST

TV VOL

ON SCREEN

STRAIGHT

 

 

 

 

RETURN

DISPLAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EFFECT

 

 

POWER

 

POWER

AMP

STEREO

HALL

JAZZ

ROCK

3

 

TV

 

AV

 

 

1

2

3

4

1

 

 

 

 

 

MUSIC

ENTERTAIN

TV THTR

MOVIE

REC

 

 

 

 

5

6

7

8

 

 

 

 

 

q/DTS

PURE DIRECT

NIGHT

EX/ES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

0

10

ENTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHP/INDEX

 

1Press AMP.

AMP

2Turn on the video monitor and

ON SCREEN

reverberation taken together help us to determine the subjective size and shape of the room, and it is this information that the digital sound field processor reproduces in order to create sound fields.

press ON SCREEN repeatedly
to select the full display mode.

DISPLAY

If you could create the appropriate early reflections and subsequent reverberations in your listening room, you would be able to create your own listening environment. The acoustics in your room could be changed to those of a concert hall, a dance floor, or virtually any size room at all. This ability to create sound fields at will is exactly what YAMAHA has done with the digital sound field processor.

3Select the sound field program you want to adjust.

STEREO

HALL

JAZZ

ROCK

1

2

3

4

MUSIC

ENTERTAIN

TV THTR

MOVIE

5

6

7

8

q/DTS

PURE DIRECT

NIGHT

EX/ES

9

0

10

ENTER

 

 

 

CHP/INDEX

Program No.

Program name

P08 MOVIE THEATER

Cursor .

;;;;0dB ;;15ms ;;1.0 ;;20ms ;;1.0

Parameters

Parameter values

 

INFORMATION

ADDITIONAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English

 

 

 

 

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Yamaha DSP-AX750SE Editing Sound Field Parameters, What is a sound field, Changing parameter settings, Early reflections