I need help with questions about surround sound settings

[mike c]

some things, the first not relaleted to this

1) I know steve b is out of the office for a while. doubtful he'll be
back too soon. he has a life.

2) I have precious little clue about surround settings. I only know my
stereo could go up against Lucifer on just the first of the vitual
theater settings, and I am still so amazed at the coolest thing I have
ever encountered next to HW, I can't be bothered actually adjusting it
yet, or even trying the "b" and "c" versions of it :)
So in others words.....anyone with an actual brain needed!!


3) please don't punish me. I will get a handle on myself again I know
I have cluttered the forum it it is depressing for me


On 4/12/14, mike c <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
> oops. how dare I assume she wanted me to call.
> going back "in"
> It was me who rang.
> BTW, if you're not getting YOUR backrub I'll speak to Tim :)
> something's knocking you out :)
>
> On 4/12/14, mary sullivan <maryann.sullivan1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Hi, friends,
>>
>> Being married to a sound engineer, and just being me, I need to know a
>> few
>> things about settings for surround sound.  It's challenging enough that I
>> can't figure out which setting is which with all these digital settings.
>> When listening to  recording  in 5.1 surround, what is the right setting?
>> If I want the surround effect for a stereo recording, do I need a
>> different
>> setting?  My dear friend Mike, is always telling me to just play with it,
>> and listen to the setting I like, but if something is actually recorded
>> in
>> 5.1 I want to hear it the way the artist meant for it to sound. There
>> seems
>> to be a setting for music, and 1 for movies. Any help from all you
>> experts
>> out there would be super appreciated.
>>
>> I miss using dials instead of pushing buttons, it's more difficult for
>> me.
>> Do I use DTS, autosurround, prologic, Err!!!! It sounds real good but I
>> need
>> accuracy.  I hope Tim doesn't need to change the settings for me, if I
>> need
>> to use different settings, I need to find a way to do it myself.  Chris
>> always did want to teach me about sound,, I wish I had been open to
>> learning
>> more, he tried to teach me, but I didn't get it.   It all seemed too
>> complicated to meet the time, he was working doing beta testing for all
>> kinds of cool Lexicon stuff.  Having a sound studio in our living room
>> for
>> a
>> while was quite a trip.  The apartment was small.
>>
>> I need to find out if I can control this monster myself, it's a really
>> nice
>> monster, a bit intimidating, though, and if I were to study the manuals I
>> might actually get some sleep which might not be bad, but that won't
>> solve
>> my problem, unless anyone wants to try projecting it telepathically when
>> I
>> am asleep which unfortunately, is at night.
>>
>>
>>
>> Love to all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Mary
>>
>