Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Area 5.1 Sound Performance Lab
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Manual A r ea 5. 1 5.1 Surround Microphone Preamplifier & Stereo Downmix Syste m.
2 Area 5.1 V ersion 1.0 - 5/200 0 T he in fo rmation in this document has been ca r efully v erified an d is assumed to be co rre ct . Howev er So und Per fo r man ce Lab (SPL ) r ese r v es the r ight to modify the produ ct desc r ibed at any tim e. Changes without notic e.
3 Area 5.1 Co n t e n t s Introduction ............................................................................................... 3 F eature List ................................................................................................. 7 Installation .
4 Area 5.1 The Area 5.1 unit should not be installed near units which produce strong magnetic fields or extreme heat. D o not install the unit directly above or below pow er amplifiers.
5 Area 5.1 Standard Rec ording Setup Sub Bass Output L (1), C (2), R (3), SL (4), SR (5) Output Microphone Input (via multicore lead) Stereo Mix Output DTRS or any other digital or analog multitrack recor- ding system The Standard Recording Setup is the basic configuration f or recordings with the Area 5.
6 Opera tion Preamplifier SPL Mic Arra y The SPL Mic Array was designed to arrange any suitable micro- phones in the setup based on the ASM 5 design of SPL ’ s Atmos 5.1 system. The outstanding quality of its 5.1 sur round reproduction has been proven in man y occasions.
7 Opera tion Preamplifier Ch. 1-4 Lock To activate the master mic gain control, press the Ch.1-4 lock button in the channel 5 section. No w the mic gain control of channel 5 is the master control for all fiv e channels. The mic gain controls allow amplfications from 24 dB up to 60 dB .
8 Area 5.1 Sub/LFE channel T o separate those frequencies that are not localisable , a 24 dB Butterwor th low-pass filter can be ac tivat ed at 130 Hz (Dolby AC 3). If the low-pass filter is not ac tivated , the output can be fed to any other LFE proc essor to generate the Sub/LFE signal for other encodings such as DTS.
9 Area 5.1 Built around a torroidal transformer , the power supply allows f or a minimal electromagnetic field with no hum or mechanic al noise. The pow er supply's output side is filtered by an RC circuit to extrac t noise and hums caused by your pow er ser vice.
10 Area 5.1 SPL electronics GmbH (hereaf ter called SPL) products are warranted only in the country where purchased, through the authorized SPL distributor in that country , against defects in material or workmanship.
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