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Author Topic: Sound options for VJ's and DVDs Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 01-21-2007 08:03 AM                        Just wondering if theres a easy way to use 5.1 or at least 4.1 sound when I have a DVD/CD player or a computer hooked to our sound system. We have a Cp55 w/ split surrounds, and a DTS6 system. On Saturday we are having a late night Live VJ session and they want to be able to use more then just stereo which we have been using for local films on DV or DVCAM through the non-sync channel. Can it be done? any help would be great.. Thanks...  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 01-21-2007 12:39 PM                     if youre coming out already decoded, go into aux. At least it will give you L,C,R and surrounds  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-21-2007 02:48 PM                     Route the dvd audio into the bypass contacts of the db50 connector on the dts6 If the DTS is off line it will pass the audio from the DVD player to the digital input strip on the cp55  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2007 07:17 PM                     Can't a parallel printer switch also be used to select??? Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-22-2007 08:33 PM                     Too bad he didn't have a CP-500 since there is a matrix option in that processor (in the setup menu) to take the two N/S inputs from any source and this option would matrix the sound to all six channels..  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-23-2007 01:25 AM                     If there's an SRA5 present, you can route the 2 channel in via the n/s input on the SRA5. Assuming it's wired the DA20 way, all you then need is one wee switch to change what the control wiring is doing (put the SRA5 into n/s mode, but leave the CP55 in 05). Works like a charm!  |  IP: Logged Brian Tristam Williams Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Johannesburg, South Africa Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-23-2007 07:59 AM                        Get yourself a DVD player with 6-channel audio out. I've found that the El-Cheapo players are more likely to have a nice six-pack of RCAs on the back, and it sounds awesome, especially when your picture source is a Christie CP2000  |  IP: Logged

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