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HOLOPHONE H4 SuperMINI User Manual

Manual is about: Surround Sound Microphone

Summary of H4 SuperMINI

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    H4 supermini surround sound microphone user guide copyright © 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007 rising sun productions ltd..

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    H4 supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page i contact us: holophone rising sun productions limited 258 adelaide street east, suite 200 toronto, ontario, canada m5a 1n1 telephone: (416) 362-7790 fax: (416) 504-6500 website: http://www.Holophone.Com email: info@holophone.Com warranty cont...

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    H4 supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page ii terms and conditions 1. Rising sun productions limited “rising sun” warrants its products to be free of defects in material and workmanship for a period of one (1) year from the original date of receipt or retail purchase. 2. During the war...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    H4 supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page iii table of contents terms and conditions ................................................................................................. Ii warnings .............................................................................................

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 1 introducing the holophone h4 supermini congratulations. You are the proud owner of a truly ingenious piece of audio engineering. The holophone h4 supermini surround sound microphone system is a lightweight, portable, super-compact package th...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 2 the holophone breakthrough the h-4 supermini is based on the patented holophone surround technology that has revolutionized the capture of surround sound. Instead of using separate microphones to capture the multiple inputs required for surr...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 3 control unit functions the h4 supermini head is only part of the story. Typically, in videography, the sound is captured in stereo, to be stored either in the camera or in a separate stereo recording unit. The h4 supermini system converts th...

  • Page 8: The Holophone System

    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 4 the holophone system the holophone is a specially designed microphone system for capturing sound in three dimensions, while keeping signals discrete for surround sound playback. Designed specifically to create sound tracks for surround sound...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 5 our real head performs in a similar way, shielding each ear from sound waves that are picked up by the other. Small differences in timing are interpreted as position. This phenomenon is known as binary localization. The output from all the s...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 6 a brief overview of surround sound mono in the beginning there was mono. No matter how many speakers there were, the sound coming from each speaker was the same. In monaural recording, the effect was as if all the sound was recorded from the...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 7 dolby surround, dolby prologic: 4-2-4 dolby surround and dolby prologic are home cinema versions of dolby stereo. For television home video, the four signals are compressed into two conventional stereo tracks, and then decompressed into four...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 8 6.1 and 7.1 formats imax uses a 6.1 system, adding a top channel to the 5.1 standard. This configuration was supported by the original holophone h-1 (now discontinued). It is currently supported by the h2-pro. Dolby, dts and srs labs (among ...

  • Page 13: The Holophone Supermini

    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 9 the holophone supermini supermini microphone head five omni-directional microphone elements are mounted externally on the h4 supermini (l, r, c, ls, rs) each element has a bandwidth of 20hz-20khz. A sixth is enclosed in the head, and records...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 10 6 channel output h4 supermini and control unit mount the control unit on the camera, using either a hot-shoe or cold-shoe mount, the front of the head pointing in the same direction as the camera. (there is no connection to the camera throu...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 11 the right side of the control unit (as you hold the camera) has the output ports for the captured sound. Main stereo out records direct to the media in the camera, eliminating synchronization issues. Outputs two channels via a stereo connec...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 12 this input port allows you to replace the center microphone in the h4 supermini head with a separate microphone of your own choosing. It can be any type of microphone: shotgun, hand-held, lavalier, wireless. You can adjust the input level u...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 13 control unit—rear view zoom indicator two-color led monitor mic gain dial (all mics) zoom button external center gain power switch power indicator external center led external center switch headphone level - 12 db pad - 12 db pad led.

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 14 zoom indicator led display indicating whether audio zoom has been activated. (see zoom button below.) two-color led monitor led display indicating the sound pressure for each microphone element. The display provides the operator with an int...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 15 phone level this gain control sets the overall sound level in the headphones. Used for monitoring the sound that is being captured. Important note: the phone level control does not set the record level. It simply determines what you hear in...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 16 using the holophone h4 supermini the holophone supermini is remarkably simple to use, because it accurately reproduces in three dimensions what you would hear at a particular location in space. In most cases, if you have experience recordin...

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    H4-supermini user guide rising sun productions ltd. Page 17 with this in mind, you should decide whether your video shot is a close-up that would be complemented by the use of audio zoom, or whether the standard configuration is appropriate. External center microphone the h4 supermini provides the a...