Phonitor
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Quick Guide To Headphone Monitoring
Operation
Adjust Headphone Reproduction
To Loudspeaker Monitoring
The Phonitor offers foremost a complete set of options required for
professional monitoring: Solo L/R, Phase Reverse L/R, Mono, Dim,
Volume, VU & PPM Metering.
In addition, new functions such as Crossfeed, Speaker Angle and
Center Level transform the Phonitor from a traditional headphone am-
plifier into a headphone monitoring amplifier, with which it is possible
to achieve reproduction equivalent to studio monitors.
However, these new functions also require that you take some time
and acquaint yourself with these functions.
We recommend proceeding with the following five steps:
1.
Initially choose your audio material from sources you know well, and
in a first production, that which is similar to what you wish to mix. It
is not sensible to listen to classic music while planning a Phonitor
setup to mix a pop production. Classic music stereophony record-
ing involves a much more restricted stereo width than pop or rock
music, where artificial “panorama stereophony“ often provides for a
much broader imaging. Compare and match the volume of speakers
and headphones.
2.
Note that you should be able to switch quickly and smoothly be-
tween speaker and headphones when making comparison tests. It
is also important that you can switch off the loudspeakers quickly
to avoid crosstalk into the headphone. The degree of loudspeaker
crosstalk into the headphones will of course depend on whether you
have open, half -open or closed headphones.
3.
As starting points, first choose the following adjustments:
Crossfeed: 3, Speaker Angle: 30°, Center Level: -1,2dB.
4.
Activate CROS./SPK. and CENTER (switches to the On position). The
audio channels will now be mixed with time, level and frequency cor-
rections calculated precisely to match what you hear when monitor-
ing over loudspeakers.
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