Michael Cook
Stunt Coordinator
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- Dec 25, 2001
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The sound is supposed to be lower on the surrounds than all the other speakers, right? I don't have a spl meter yet and I am just setting everything up by ear at the moment.
When I put my ear up to each speaker, the surrounds sound considerably lower than the rest
Michael is this while your playing test tones or a movie. During a movie the surrounds are going to sound considerably lower since they only are playing mostly ambiant noises. While an SPL meter will get the speakers vol. output spot on, I must say I had my system pretty damn close (w/o an SPl) to what there at now w/ an SPL.
Rob
Just for chuckels (actually to display how inaccurate our ears are at absolute levels), can you record the values before calibration.
Well. I can answer this one. I just got my spl meter & just set everything with my receiver test tones (however I plan on re-doing it with the thx optimizer on my Pearl Harbor DVD) I had my fr-c-fl all set too 0 and the rear surrounds set at +2(which sounded ok). After setting everything with the spl my readings are FR +3, C +1, FL +1, SR +5, SL +6. Before calibrating I could single out which speakers were producing noise, now everything blends,the surround effects are much better.
2 cents
Brian