Calibrate Dirac Live and get remarkable results! Now with Loudness Compensation just like Audyssey’s Dynamic EQ Yamaha’s YPAO Volume!!! Transform Your Home Cinema into a THX-calibrated Theatre. In this comprehensive manual, owner and editor of Simple Home Cinema shares his tips and tricks to getting exceptional Dirac Live results including: 1. Improved sound quality and speech intelligibility 2. Maximised subwoofer performance with smoother and tighter bass! 3. The walls literally disappear and the sound comes from beyond the walls! 4. Gorgeous natural reverberations like in a purpose-built multiplex! This guide reveals the secrets to getting amazing results with Dirac Live including: • The 5 Pillars of Reference Playback (new in v2.0) – an overview map with detailed diagrams for each 5 major areas to serve as a map for the guide. • How to set up your speakers and your room for optimum results to ensure Dirac Live is spending processing on polishing up the sound, NOT correcting setup issues. • How to integrate single and multiple subwoofers with Dirac Live • The Dos and Don’t of Dirac Setup • 5 Microphone patterns in addition to what is available with Dirac Live (new in v1.0) o Tight, Medium and 2 wide patterns o On restricted pattern used for troubleshooting bass issues • Emulate Audyssey Dynamic EQ, Yamaha YPAO Volume and ISO226 Loudness Compensation Solutions with Dirac Live • Calculate the exact curves based on two blended ISO226:2003 approaches based on hundreds of hours of research, measurement, number crunching and testing. • Configure and print out your own personalised cheat sheet based on your listening habits that enables you to switch between Dirac Live slots based on volume / content level ORbased on input source. • Calculation spreadsheet (Dirac Live Curve Editor Excel Tool) that o allows you to switch between base curves o select loudness compensation strategies and select the compensation amount based on volume and offsets o add your own custom base curves o add your own unique corrections based on your room if needed o edit the Dirac Live Target files with the help of the spreadsheet and included guide • Customised Dirac Live Target files that are ready to load based on your requirements without having to mess with a spreadsheet (compatible with Dirac Live 3.X) • A section on Content Mastering for different content (new in v2.0) • Reworked Loudness Compensation Chapters (reworked in v2.0) • A section on Volume and Amplification (new in v2.0) • 100+ pages of dense but easy to understand material • 30+ diagrams explaining the concepts in a visual manner • Lots of easy to understand explanations to guide you through each step of the process.
