Headzone PRO OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Mobile Headphone Monitoring System with virtual 5.
Table of Contents 1. Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table of Contents 12. Technical specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 13. Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Contact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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.
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 • DT 880 PRO HT • HR 1 • HC 1 • Bag Headzone Base PRO Base station (9,5"), incl.
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 device like an external sound card.
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.
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.
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.
Headzone Hardware Rear 8 8 9 10 11 12 13 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.
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.
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 Administrator.
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”.
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.
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.
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 hardware 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 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.
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.3 Room set-up 1 8.3.1 2 3 4 5 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 symbols in the virtual control room 1 and move them to a new position while holding down the mouse button. Alternatively you can type the desired angle into the “Virtual speaker positions” field 2 and set it by pressing the “Enter” button on your keyboard.
Headzone Software Control Panel Ambience The Ambience parameter 5 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.
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.4 Volume controls 3 7 2 6 4 8.4.1 1 5 8 Input peak LEDs The input peak LEDs 1 of all surround channels show if an input stream is close to saturating the Headzone input. One or more of the LEDs will light up when there is less than 6dB of headroom left before an input signal clips.
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.4.3 Surround channel volumes The volume faders for all surround channels 3 will level audio signals in your Headzone hardware within a range of -50dB to +10dB and are intended to set up a convenient balance between your virtual surround speakers. When using positive gain, please watch the level meters to make sure you do not saturate any audio signals (refer to chapter 8.4.2 “Surround channel level meters”).
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.5 Control / status panel 1 8.5.1 2 3 8 9 4 5 6 7 10 Bypass processing Although Headzone is designed to simulate a virtual 5.1 control room, there may be situations where you want Headzone to operate like a “normal” headphones amplifier when checking a stereo mix or a CD. By clicking the “Bypass processing” tick box 1 all processing (including head tracking) is deactivated and a stereo downmix of all surround signals is put out.
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.5.3 Selecting an audio input By switching the “Audio input” control 3 you can choose between the analog (RCA jacks) 12 or digital 8 (Firewire IEEE1394) audio inputs on the rear of the Headzone base. The selected input will be displayed by the “Audio input” LEDs on the “Status” panel and by the “Input select” LEDs 6 on the front of the Headzone base station (see chapter 5.1”Base Station”). The control element is interactive with the “Input select” button ”Base Station”).
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.6 ASIO driver control panel 1 8.6.1 2 3 Opening the ASIO driver control panel For changing the settings of the Headzone ASIO driver, select the “Advanced” tab on the Headzone software control panel and click on the “ASIO Settings… “ button. A new window will open for the Headzone ASIO driver allowing you to change the internally used sampling frequency 3 of the Headzone base as well as the ASIO buffer size 2 to influence latency.
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.7 Storing and loading set-ups 1 2 Within the Headzone software control panel you can save and load different set-ups of your system. This comes in handy when you have to switch between different virtual loudspeaker and room set-ups or when different people use the same Headzone hardware and want to have their own personal settings. Note: Before storing or saving set-ups ensure that your Headzone hardware is connected to your PC! 8.7.
Headzone Software Control Panel Volume panel • Volume left including Mute status • Volume right including Mute status • Volume center including Mute status • Volume LFE including Mute status • Volume LS including Mute status • Volume RS including Mute status • Master Volume • LFE Full-range feature • LFE Phase Reverse feature Control/status panel • Audio Input Select • Bypass processing status • Bypass head tracker status • Head tracker scale factor • Selection of the headphone adaptation 8.7.
Headzone Software Control Panel 8.8 Firmware Updates 8.8.1 Updating the Headzone Software Control Panel Windows Updates of the Headzone Software Control Panel will be available as a new installation package as described in chapter 6. “How to install the Headzone Software - Windows”. Before installing a new software package you must not necessarily uninstall the current Headzone software and audio drivers as these will automatically be uninstalled before copying new software and drivers.
Headzone Software Control Panel 4. After loading a DSP update file, the Headzone software control panel will signalise when it is ready to transfer the new firmware to your base station. As the update of the Headzone DSP firmware can take up to 30 minutes we recommend to disable screensavers or automatic “standby”, “sleep” or “power down” modes of your PC or notebook.
Headzone Software Control Panel 6. When the firmware upload is finished, the Headtracker LED 2 on the front panel of your Headzone base station will stop blinking red and you will be asked to restart the software control panel and your hardware. To restart your hardware, please turn it off and on again by using the power switch 9 on the rear panel. 7.
Head Tracker 9. Using the head tracker Headzone uses unique, patented, ultrasonic head-tracking technology to make the virtual surround reproduction as realistic as possible. As ultrasonic signals always require a transmitter and receiver, the headtracking system consists of two components: the ultrasonic exciters mounted on the DT 770 PRO or DT880 PRO and the Headzone rail (see chapter 5.2 “DT 770 PRO HT / DT 880 PRO HT Headphones” and 5.3 “Headzone Rail and Clip”).
Set-ups 10. Typical set-ups 10.1 Recording set-up 10.1.1 Headzone as mobile Firewire audio interface Firewire IEEE 1394 • Connect Headzone to your Digital Audio Workstation via Firewire 8 and select the appropriate driver in the hardware settings of your recording software. For software which supports ASIO, this will be the “Headzone ASIO” driver, while on MACs you will have to select the “Headzone Firewire” device on your “Core Audio” panel.
Set-ups 10.1.2 Headzone integrated in a professional studio set-up Firewire IEEE 1394 DAC Sub Outs (6 x Analog) Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) • Use the analog inputs 12 on your Headzone base station to connect your mixing desk or your DACs. When connecting your mixing desk you will usually want to use the subgroups of your desk as 5.1 output. • Connect Headzone to your PC via Firewire 8 anyway in order to use the Headzone software control panel for configuration purpose.
Set-ups 10.2 Multimedia PC set-up 10.2.1 Headzone as Firewire sound card Firewire IEEE 1394 • Connect Headzone to your PC via Firewire 8 and select the appropriate driver in the “Multimedia settings” of your operating system. For Windows PCs, this is the “Headzone Firewire Audio” WDM driver, while on MACs you will have to select the “Headzone Firewire” device on your Core Audio panel. • When playing surround PC games, these should automatically use Headzone as audio device.
Set-ups 10.2.2 Headzone in combination with a 5.1 sound card Firewire IEEE 1394 6 x Analog Out (RCA) PC with 5.1 sound card • • • • Use the analog inputs 12 of your Headzone base to connect to the analog outputs of your 5.1 sound card. Use a 5.1 sound card which is capable of surround decoding (e.g. Soundblaster Audigy Series). Connect Headzone to your PC via Firewire to use the Headzone software control panel for configuration. When playing DVDs via a software DVD player (e.g.
Set-ups 10.3 Home entertainment set-up 10.3.1 Headzone hooked up to a DVD player 6 x Analog Out (RCA) DVD player • Use the analog inputs 12 of your Headzone base station to connect the analog outputs of your DVD player • Please ensure that your DVD player is capable of surround decoding. You will usually find this out by looking at the back panel. If your DVD player has 6 separate RCA jacks for the surround channels you should have no problems.
Troubleshooting 11. Troubleshooting To restore the factory settings of your Headzone device, do the following: • Close the application software that uses Headzone as audio device. • Turn off the Headzone base station 9 . • Press and hold the “Bypass” 3 and “Input Select” 5 buttons on the front panel of the base station. • Turn on the Headzone base station 9 while holding the buttons ( 3 and 5 )down. The “Headtracker” will start flashing slowly • Release the buttons ( 3 and 5 ).
Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause Solution Virtual audio sources seem to move while turning your head Scale of the head tracker compensation does not match your personal perception Adjust the scale of the head tracker compensation according to your needs (see chapter 8.5.6 “Viewing and customising the head tracker”).
Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause Solution Audio on the front channels is turned down although all sliders in the software control panel are at the same position. Some older audio players for Windows just level the volume on the L/R channels even when playing surround signals. You can check the behaviour of your Windows audio player by using the “5.1 Test_Sine_All.wav” file on your Headzone CD. Just play this file and watch the level meters in the Headzone software control panel.
Technical Specifications 12. Technical specifications General Permissible ambient temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +10 °C to +40 °C at < 90% humidity Power supply External mains adapter, 5 VDC Operating voltage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 to 240 V AC 47 to 63 Hz Power consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . max. 20 W Headphone output Socket. . . . . . . . . . .
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