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Topic: Anyone running Special Venue mixes on the XD10?
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Christopher Seo
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 530
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-08-2007 04:12 PM
More specifically, is anyone running 5-screen-channel "Special Venue" mixes on an XD10 in addition to normal 5.1 mixes? If so, I'm curious to know how you have the XD10 hooked up and how you switch from one type of mix to the other.
My theatre has a bit of a difficulty in that the XD10 is digitally feeding a CP650. There is no way to change the output channel assignments on the XD10, and AFAIK no way to change the AES input channel assignments on the CP650. As a result, Left Center, Right Center, and Mono Surround on a Special Venue mix are processed by the CP650 as Left Surround, Right Surround, and Subwoofer (maybe?), respectively.
So far we have solved this problem by requesting custom discs from DTS that reconfigure the Special Venue mix into an 8-channel mix, which is easy enough to do in L.A., but I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue.
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Richard Hamilton
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Evansville, Indiana
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 05-10-2007 02:13 PM
I did an 8/70 install a few years ago in Greece. They hired someone from Athens to do the Sound Rack instead of us. Their engineer showed up a couple of days before I had to do the demo film for some Minister of Travel.
Because we didn't get the whole bid, I was told that all I had to do was to just supply the SMPTE output from the projector and the Automation outputs to his rack.
He unwrapped his rack expecting to only hook up speakers, my cables, and then EQ.
He had an XD-10 and a CP650. I told him he had a few issues to deal with. One being my demo film didn't have a DTS disc. He said DTS told him all the 8/70 titles had discs. I said yeah, available for a price, I told him most prints come with a DAT tape.
Then I asked him where the overhead signal is, and how will he get a sub channel from a mix that has no subs on it. The track layout on the tape is: LS,L,C,R,RS,OH.
He rented a Tascam, and we made it through the demo. No overhead, and I didn't ask where he got the sub channel. I think he had some RDL's with him.
Rick
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