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Montego TM DDL Eight-Channel Surround Sound Card Featuring Dolby® Digital Live www .TurtleBeach.com ...
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User’s Guide ii Notices Montego DDL Users G uide Version 6 Software and do cumentation copy right © 2005 - 200 9 Voyetra Tur tle Beach, Inc. A ll rights reserved . No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any means or in an y form without prior written con sent from Voye tra Turtle Beach, In c. (“VTB”). In no event w i ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL iii Contents I NTRODUC ING M ONTEGO DDL _________________________________________ 5 I NSTALLATION CD __________________________________________________ 6 Control Panel .................................................................................................................................... 6 C ONNECTO ...
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User’s Guide iv M IXER T AB ______________________________________________________ 31 Playback Settings ................................................................................................ ............................ 31 Record Settings ................................................................................................... ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 5 I NTR ODUCING M ONTEGO DDL Montego DDL r epresents the latest generation in mult i -channel P C audio. Key features include: Dolby Digital Live (DDL) real -time encoder c onverts PC audio (e.g. game s, MP3, WMA, WA V, etc.) into a 5.1 channel Dolby Di gital au dio stream that is transmitted through the op ...
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User’s Guide 6 I NST ALLA TION CD The Montego DDL CD includes the followi ng components: Montego DDL Drivers Audio drivers for Windows 2000/X P/Media Center Edition/V ista/Window s 7. Montego DDL Control Panel Software A convenient utility for controlling the Montego DDL audio fea tures. Software Suite A versatile suite of music softw are, descri ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 7 C ONNECT ORS Connector Function Front Out (Channels 1 & 2) Surround Out (Channels 3 & 4) Center/ LFE (Chan nels 5 & 6) Rear Out (Channels 7 & 8) Stereo, 4, 6 and 8 channel spea ker configurations are se lected from the Montego Contro l Panel Speakers T ab. Use Front Out for stereo playback on ...
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User’s Guide 8 I NST ALLA TION S YSTEM R EQUIREMENTS Before proceeding with the in stallation, please make sure that your system meets the following minimum specifications for use with t he Montego DDL: PC Pentium 800 MH z / compatible or higher w ith one available PCI ex pansion slot RA M 128 MB syste m RAM Hard Drive Approx imately 100 MB free ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 9 5. With a gentle back-and-fort h rocking m otion, press t he gold-striped edge connector on the Montego DDL sou nd card firmly into the PCI slot until it sn aps into place. Secu re its rear metal bracket to the chassis with the screw you re moved in the previous step. Remove the rear bracket Gently install th ...
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User’s Guide 10 I NSTALLING THE D RIVERS AND S OFTW ARE 1. Connect your powered speaker s, microphone, and any ot her audio peripherals t o the appropriate inputs and outputs on the Mo ntego DDL 2. Power-on your PC. After Windows bo ots, i f the ― Found New Har dware Wizard ‖ is displaye d, click on the Cancel but ton to end this proce ss. ? ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 11 I NSTALLING THE W INDOWS XP M EDIA C ENTER C ONTROL P ANEL You may skip thi s section if you’ re not installing Mon tego DDL in a Wi ndows XP Media Center PC. 1. From the Montego DDL i nstallation menu, select Ins tall Montego DDL Applications . 2. Select Install Control Panel for XP Media Cen ter Edit ...
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User’s Guide 12 C HECKING M ONTEGO DDL A FTE R I NST ALLA TION L AUNCHING THE M ONTEGO DDL C ONTROL P ANEL After run ning the software insta llation procedure from the Montego DDL CD , the Turtle Beac h palm tree icon should appear in the Wind ows Systray at the bottom right of y our PC screen. Clic king on this icon will bring up a menu fro m wh ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 13 The Master Volume on the Speake rs Tab should be at least ha lf-way up and the Mute butto n should be off, so the sound is not muted . The individual spea ker volumes to the right of the Master Volu me should be set t o about 75% towards the right. This can be easily d one by pressing the Res et butt ...
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User’s Guide 14 U SING THE M ONTEGO DDL P LAYING DIGITAL MUSI C WITH W INDOWS M E DIA P LAYER Once you‘ve confirmed that the speakers are operating properly, launch Windows Med ia Player and play some music files from your digital song library. If you don ‘t hear any sound eve n though Media P layer indicates the song is playing: Check th ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 15 S OUND FX Whenever a Sound Effect has bee n Enabled, the Setting s Summa ry in the Speakers Tab ind icates which effect ha s been turned on. This lets you easily see if the sound is being mo dified by the effects, without having to sear ch the Control Panel tabs. K EY S HIFTER The Key Shifter in t he Eff ...
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User’s Guide 16 Check that the ― Enable digital CD audio for this CD -ROM D evice ‖ option is enabled in the CD drive‘s Properties setting s (using Window s XP or 2000 ). Access this by clicking Start Control Panel System Hardware Tab Device Manager DVD/CD ROM Drives Right click on the na me of the CD drive in qu est ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 17 Another example: if you are using stere o headphones and wa nt to hear all channels of an 8 channel au dio source in a more ―spatially correct‖ manner than c an normally be produc ed in stereo headphones, enable ―Headphones‖ on the Spea kers tab, then e nable the Speaker Positioning on the Effects ta ...
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User’s Guide 18 DVD player installed on your PC. Typically, these programs provide an aud io option tab that le ts you set the audio playback forma t. From this tab, you should set the audio playback format to 5.1 surrou nd so that the DVD audio will play on all 6 channels of y our multi -channel sy stem. Multi-channel DVD a udio is encoded in ei ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 19 L ISTENING TO 3D G AME A UDIO When playing games that us e Dir ectSound3D ™ , the Montego DDL surround sound processor convert s the 3D positional sounds into HRTF positional a udio so that the 3D e ffects of the game can be heard in headphones or stereo speaker s. When using Dolby Digital L ive to drive d ...
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User’s Guide 20 U SING E AR F OR CE ® S URR OUND S OUND H EADPHONES Turtle Beach Ear For ce headphon es are a perfec t add-on for the Montego DDL. Be sure to che ck them out at www.Turt leBeach.com . The optional Turtle Beach Ear Force surround- sound headphones le t you experience surround-sou nd without having to set-u p a 5.1 spea ker sys ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 21 M ONTEGO DDL C ONTROL P ANEL The Control Panel le ts you access all of the Montego DDL aud io features. You ca n launch the control panel from the Turtle Beac h palm tre e icon located on the r ight side of the Windo ws Start menu or by clicking Start All Pr ograms Turtle Beach Montego DDL Ru ...
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User’s Guide 22 S PEAKERS T AB The Speakers Tab is d ivided into the foll owing sections: Speaker Configurat ion lets you test speaker operation and select speaker c onfiguration modes. Volume sets the master volume a nd individual speaker volumes. Settings Summary indicates the status of i mportant contr ol panel settings. S/PDIF ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 23 S PEAKER C ONFIGURATION S The Speaker Configuration pull -d own menu sets the followi ng speaker mode s: Headphones (2-sp eakers) 2 Speakers ( Stereo) 4 speakers (Quad) ...
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User’s Guide 24 5.1 Speakers (5.1 Surroun d) 5.1 Headphones (5.1 Surrou nd) 7.1 speakers ( 7.1 Surround) ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 25 T ESTING THE S PEAKE R C ONFIGURATION After selecting the speaker configuration to match your speaker system, you can check if the speake rs are properly connected by clicking on the speaker icon to play a test sig nal on that spea ker. The buttons at the bottom of the speaker configuratio n illu stration, l ...
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User’s Guide 26 Voice Changer: Indicates that the Voice Cha nger effect in the Effects Tab is ena bled, therefo re the mic input mig ht be altered. S/PDIF S ETTINGS The S/PDIF digital in put and output connectors may be used to interface with external S/ PDIF de vices, such as digital speaker s, A/V re ceivers, DVD players and other home thea ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 27 Reverse S/PDIF -In Format : Check this option when the transmitting device is sending S/PDIF da ta with an inverted phase, which sometimes ca n cause the S/PDIF input to incorrectly sense the digital sign al . Validity Check: When this op tion is checke d, the S/PDIF input will ignore the Validity Bi ...
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User’s Guide 28 G RAPHIC E QU ALIZE R T AB The Graphic Equalizer provid es 10 fre quency bands that can be boost or cut to tailor the system frequency response, or tone. T wo rows of buttons at the top of t he slider bank provide s quick acce ss t o eight equalizer presets. The Flat setting re turns the sliders to their zer o (i.e unmodifie d) po ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 29 E FFECTS T AB S PEAKER P OSITION This section lets you change th e position of speake rs configured in the Speake rs Tab by clicking and moving the blue ―virtual speaker‖ ico ns in the ill ustration. The num ber of blue speaker icons will match the num ber of speakers in the Speaker Configuration setting ...
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User’s Guide 30 S OUND FX V OICE C HANGER When activated by pre ssing the Enable button, this eff ect alters the microp hone input signal b y adding an echo/reverb eff ect or by changing the pitch up or down . Note that these e ffects only operate on t he microphone input. To try this effec t: 2. Insert a microphone into the m ic input jack and t ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 31 M IXER T AB Mixer Tab in Win dows 2000/XP Mixer Tab in Win dows Vista/Windows 7 P LAYBACK S ETTINGS The Playback mixer provid es an array of volume , mute and pan controls for balancin g the sound sources when listening with hea dphones or speakers . Each slider contr ols a specific source of sou nd on the P ...
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User’s Guide 32 Microphone Options Butt on , labeled ―…‖, a c tivates a dialog box with a n option to boost th e microphone volume by +20dB. CD Player: Sets the volume for the CD ROM audio. Line In : Se ts the volume of the signal plug ged into t he Line input ja ck. Use the Pan control to bala nce the left and right signals. Ma ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 33 R ECORD S ETTINGS Audio recording can be a ccomplished with a program suc h as Windows Re corder (in the Accessories secti on of the Start All Programs list), or o ther digital audio recording s oftware. The rec ord source is selected by clicking the Record Sour ce pull- down menu in the Rec ord Settings ...
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User’s Guide 34 The following diagram illu strates the signal flow f or the recording input pat h in Wind ows 2000/XP . Note that the volume sliders in the Playback Mixer d o not aff ect the r ecording level of the source selected as a Record Source unless they are recorded from the Stereo Mix s ource, which is the output of t he Play back Mixer: ...
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WWW .T URTLE B EACH . COM Montego DDL 35 L IMITED W ARRANTY Voyetra Turtle Beac h, Inc. ("VTB") warrants to the origi nal end -user pur chaser ("Purchaser") that the re tail Turtle Beach hardwar e product herein ("Prod uct") will be free of d efects in materials and workmanship for a period of one (1) ye ar fr om the d ...
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User’s Guide 36 FCC D ECLARA TION OF C ONFORMITY PRODUCT NAME Turtle Beach Montego DDL MODEL NUMBER TB400-3300- 01 FCC RULES TESTED TO COMPLY WITH FCC PART 15, CLASS B OPERATING ENVIRONMENT FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT: This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following conditions. (1) Thi ...
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