1999

  

  
  

  
Surround and multichannel recordings are making high demands on clearly arranged screen layouts of audio vectorscopes. Beside levelling multi channels, also the phase correlation of numerous channel pairs have to constantly be monitored, especially the front and rear channels. Phase problems or other failures might be caused by wrong settings of microphone arrays commonly used in surround recordings.
RTW created the SurroundMonitor 10800 providing an easy-to-read display which is cleary divided into two separate sections presenting cleary arranged elements:
On the right, the 8-channel multi-norm peakmeter is displayed.
On the left, the phase meters and the real time display of level and phase relationship on a 5-channel audio vectorscope are shown. The arrangement of the four phase meters of channel pairs L/C, R/C, L/R, and LS/RS above and below of the audio vectorscope allows a clear identification and gives an idea whether the overall balance of a surround recording is good or not.