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Author Topic: dolby adjustment controls max min? Patrick de Groot Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Sprang-Capelle, Netherlands Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-26-2003 02:07 PM                     A question about the sound adjustment controls inside the dolby processor: There are for example adjustment controls inside the cp65 for the surrounds. There is a treble control. Will i boost or cut it when I turn it CW? And will i boost or cut the bass when I turn the bass control? I can see it is numbered from 1 to 3. 2 is the center position I presume. Please give me some answers. Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-26-2003 02:36 PM                     Don't mess with them unless you know what you are doing and have the proper equipment (an RTA) to make the adjustments. -Aaton  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-26-2003 02:39 PM                     Hello, Dolby's manuals recomend that the equalizer settings of each channel should be pointing mostly at 12 o'clock, and no more than 3 o'clock or less than 9 o'clock. The bass and treble controls should be as clost to 12 o'clock as possible. If you turn them clockwise YES you are boosting them up and anticlockwise you are reducing them. Hope this have been helpful. Demetris Thoupis  |  IP: Logged Patrick de Groot Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Sprang-Capelle, Netherlands Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-26-2003 04:37 PM                     >>If you turn them clockwise YES you are boosting them up and anticlockwise you are reducing them. The manual is confusing. In the section about subwoofer equalisation it says that turning "cut" max counter-clockwise will produce maximum cut en max CW will produce minimum cut... So is this just the case for cut?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-26-2003 05:49 PM                     I guess the question merits why do you want to adjust them If you don't have the experience and the test equipment leave them alone.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-26-2003 08:33 PM                     Demetris: those are the wrong controls- those are the rough adjustments on the Cat 64 screen channel EQ cards. Patrick is referring to the parametric eq settings for the surrounds on the Cat 441 card. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Patrick de Groot Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Sprang-Capelle, Netherlands Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-27-2003 02:17 AM                     I ask this because I want to look at the bass adjustment control of the surrounds, because maybe this is the reason that sometimes the surrounds crackle a little... If not I could easily set them back to the original setting. So I still don't know which side will cut the bass. If it follows the "standard" CW should boost the bass and CCW should cut it Is this the case?  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 10-27-2003 04:15 PM                        If the surrounds crackle a little, sound like they are distorting or one of the speakers if u/s. Is it one speaker only that crackles? sugest you leave the CP well alone, and get a cinema engineer in who knows where and what to look for.  |  IP: Logged Tom Wienholt Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: Towson, MD, USA Registered: Dec 2002 posted 10-27-2003 09:23 PM                     Clockwise will boost and counter-clockwise will cut.  |  IP: Logged

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