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Headzone PRO
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Mobile Headphone Monitoring System with virtual 5.1 Reproduction
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Table of Contents 1. Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Accessories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table of Contents 12. Technical specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 13. Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Contact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Safety Information Thank you for selecting Headzone, the mobile headphone monitoring system with 5.1 reproduction from beyerdynamic. Please take some time to read through this manual carefully before using this product. 1. Important safety information Headzone HBP 1 base station and HR 1 rail � READ these instructions. � KEEP these instructions. � HEED all warnings. � Follow all instructions. � Do not use this apparatus near water. � Clean only with a dry cloth. � Do not block any ventilation
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Application / Supplied Components 2. Application Headzone PRO is a mobile headphones system for professional monitioring with a virtual 5.1 reproduction. Headzone has been developed for use in mobile recording applications, broadcast vehicles or for surround studio monitoring. Headzone is also ideal for game software sound design. 3. Accessories 3.1 Supplied components � Quick Installation Guide � CD-ROM � HBP 1 Headzone Base PRO Base station (9,5"), incl. external power supply and desk top fra
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Headzone Technology 4. The Headzone technology 4.1 The idea Headzone emerged from the idea of remodelling the effective parameters of an ideal auditory space with a certain loudspeaker set-up (up to 5.1) as convincingly and exactly as possible and to make this available in a compact and lightweight transportable de- vice like an external sound card. With the help of the lastest DSP-enabled signal processing, Headzone processes the audio channels in such a way that they are heard in the headpho
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Headzone Technology 4.4 The virtual control room After being able to create “virtual loudspeakers”, the next question will be how to place these loudspeakers in a room, as the actual sound image is composed by the loudspeaker itself and the acoustic characteristics that are added by the room it is standing in. With other words, your “virtual control room”. For quite a long time the recording industry has been defining the characteristics of a listening control room. These are defined in today’s
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Headzone Technology 4.5 Why head tracking? 1. Loudspeakers do not move! Loudspeakers are installed at fixed positions within a room and provide a sound impression that is spatially stable. The loudspeaker does not change its position with the listeners’ every movement, but will sometimes be in front of them, next to them or behind them, depending on their movements/position. In contrast, headphones are attached to the user’s head, which means that a signal coming from the right-hand earpiece of
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Headzone Hardware 5. Headzone hardware 5.1 Base station Front 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 6.35 mm jack socket Tip = Audio Left Ring = Audio Right Sleeve = Ground Note: Please never connect more than one pair of headphones to the phones jack (using Y adaptors) as this will prevent proper operation of the head tracker system and could permanently damage your hardware. 2 Headtracker Status LED Off = Headtracker inactive Green = Headtracker active Red = Headtracker out of range Blinking slowly red/off = Device
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Headzone Hardware Rear 8 9 10 11 12 13 8 Digital audio input (IEEE1394) The digital IEEE1394 (Firewire) port provides input for 6 digital audio streams up to a sample rate of 96kHz. Furthermore, the Firewire connection is used for exchanging configuration data between the Headzone hardware and Headzone software control panel. Headzone utilizes a standard 6-pin Firewire connector and supports the IEEE1394-A standard. Use an appropriate adaptor cable to connect a 4-pin Firewire port (common on no
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Headzone Hardware 5.2 DT 770 PRO HT / DT 880 PRO HT Headphones Reset Button Front View Back View � In addition to conventional headphones, the DT 770 PRO HT or DT 880 PRO HT is equipped with a head tracker exciter rail containing the ultrasonic transmitters. � The head tracker exciter rail has a small integrated button on the rear that resets the head tracker when defining a new “front” position. To reset, press the reset button for about two seconds. During this time, do not move your head. Al
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Headzone Software - Windows 6. How to install the Headzone software - Windows Important: Before installing the Headzone audio drivers, please check if your workstation meets the minimum system requirements for Headzone (refer to chapter 12. “Technical specifications”). Headzone is delivered with a CD-ROM containing an installation package for the Headzone software control panel, as well as appropriate ASIO and WDM drivers for Windows XP and Windows 2000. � Start Windows, log on as Administrat
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Headzone Software - Windows 2. Please read the beyerdynamic software license agreement carefully. To accept and continue select “I accept the terms of the license agreement” and select “Next”. 3. Select a destination on your hard drive where you wish the Headzone software to be installed. Continue by clicking “Next”. - 13 -
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Headzone Software - Windows 4. Select by which name the Headzone software is to be listed in your Windows “Start Menu”. Continue by selecting “Next”. 5. After the Headzone software control panel has been copied to your PC, the set-up wizard will install the appropriate ASIO and WDM drivers for your Headzone device. Please click “Yes” to continue. Clicking “No” will cancel the installation and your PC will not recognize the Headzone hardware. - 14 -
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Headzone Software - Windows 6. Now, connect your Headzone hardware to your PC via Firewire. Make sure that your Headzone device is turned on. Wait until Windows automatically opens a “Found New Hardware” dialogue box and leave it open. Click the “Ok” button in the Headzone Set-up panel to continue installing the Headzone audio drivers. Click “Next” in the Windows-“Found New Hardware” dialogue box to finish installing the audio drivers on your PC. If a warning dialogue box about the driver not pa
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Headzone Software - MAC 7. How to install the Headzone software - MAC 1. Audio drivers � Just connect Headzone to your MAC and start working! � There is no need to install any audio drivers as Headzone is fully Apple Core Audio compliant. MAC OSX will recognise your hard- ware as “Headzone Firewire”. � As Headzone is registered as an audio sub unit, the 6 available audio out streams will be labelled Out 01 – Out 06. Headzone will treat the audio streams according to the ITU-775 standard, which
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Headzone Software Control Panel 8. How to use the Headzone software control panel 8.1 General The software control panel is your remote control for the Headzone hardware. This means the control panel does not do any audio processing and does not occupy significant CPU capacity of your workstation. By using the software control panel you can control all settings of the Headzone device such as Room Set-up, Audio Volumes, etc. Any changes will be stored within the hardware and will be still availab
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Headzone Software Control Panel 8.3 Room set-up 1 2 3 4 5 8.3.1 Virtual speaker set-up Within Headzone you can easily configure the virtual speaker set-up to meet your personal needs. Click on any of the speaker 1 symbols in the virtual control room and move them to a new position while holding down the mouse button. Alternatively you 2 can type the desired angle into the “Virtual speaker positions” field and set it by pressing the “Enter” button on your keyboard. The LFE speaker is n
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Headzone Software Control Panel Ambience 5 The Ambience parameter basically controls how much colouration your control room should add to your audio material - in other words: if you want the acoustics of your room to be “dry” or really “wet”. You should be aware of the fact that in reality the room sound has quite a big influence on your spatial impression and also on the sound of your loudspeakers. For this reason very low “Ambience” settings tend to be slightly unrealistic, because your
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Headzone Software Control Panel 8.4 Volume controls 3 7 2 6 4 1 5 8 8.4.1 Input peak LEDs 1 The input peak LEDs of all surround channels show if an input stream is close to saturating the Headzone input. One or more of 1 the LEDs will light up when there is less than 6dB of headroom left before an input signal clips. The LEDs correspond to the Clip 6 6 LED on the front of the Headzone base station, but show forthcoming clipping separately for every audio stream while the LED on th
