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... Stereo Music in Surround Sound (2000/XP Only 16 Listening to DVDs in Surround Sound 17 Using the Digital Output in Vista/Windows 7 18 Listening to Multi-Channel Audio with Dolby® Digital Live 18 Listening to 3D Game Audio ...19 USING EAR FORCE® SURROUND SOUND HEADPHONES 20 MONTEGO DDL CONTROL PANEL 21 Using the Control Panel Presets 21 SPEAKERS TAB 22 Speaker Options Button (...)...22 Speaker Configurations...23 Testing the Speaker Configuration 25 Volume Section ...25 Individual Speaker Volumes ...25 Settings Summary...25 S/PDIF Settings...26 GRAPHIC EQUALIZER TAB 28 User...
... Stereo Music in Surround Sound (2000/XP Only 16 Listening to DVDs in Surround Sound 17 Using the Digital Output in Vista/Windows 7 18 Listening to Multi-Channel Audio with Dolby® Digital Live 18 Listening to 3D Game Audio ...19 USING EAR FORCE® SURROUND SOUND HEADPHONES 20 MONTEGO DDL CONTROL PANEL 21 Using the Control Panel Presets 21 SPEAKERS TAB 22 Speaker Options Button (...)...22 Speaker Configurations...23 Testing the Speaker Configuration 25 Volume Section ...25 Individual Speaker Volumes ...25 Settings Summary...25 S/PDIF Settings...26 GRAPHIC EQUALIZER TAB 28 User...
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... audio. WWW.TURTLEBEACH.COM INTRODUCING MONTEGO DDL Montego DDL represents the latest generation in Windows XP (16 bit/48kHz playback and recording for Windows Vista/Windows 7). S/PDIF output allows for pass-through the optical S/PDIF output to a home theater A/V receiver or digital speakers. Optical S/PDIF input and output for concert hall realism. Digital sound effects processing. Whether you're playing PC games, watching DVD movies, using voice applications, listening to music or even recording your own, the Turtle Beach Montego DDL...
... audio. WWW.TURTLEBEACH.COM INTRODUCING MONTEGO DDL Montego DDL represents the latest generation in Windows XP (16 bit/48kHz playback and recording for Windows Vista/Windows 7). S/PDIF output allows for pass-through the optical S/PDIF output to a home theater A/V receiver or digital speakers. Optical S/PDIF input and output for concert hall realism. Digital sound effects processing. Whether you're playing PC games, watching DVD movies, using voice applications, listening to music or even recording your own, the Turtle Beach Montego DDL...
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... Digital In S/PDIF Digital Out Microphone Input (Monaural) Line-In L/R CD L/R In (Stereo) Aux L/R In (Stereo) Use Rear Out for powered center and sub-woofer speakers in 5.1 or 7.1 nels 5 & 6) playback modes. Settings are selected from the Montego Control Panel Speakers Tab. Allows for pass-through of digital audio. Accepts analog audio from a second CD or DVD (not available in Vista/Windows 7). Ground (black) Pin 3 - Ground (black) Pin 4 - Right (red) Accepts internal analog audio from an internal CD drive. Ground (black) Pin 3 - Use Front Out for recording digital audio...
... Digital In S/PDIF Digital Out Microphone Input (Monaural) Line-In L/R CD L/R In (Stereo) Aux L/R In (Stereo) Use Rear Out for powered center and sub-woofer speakers in 5.1 or 7.1 nels 5 & 6) playback modes. Settings are selected from the Montego Control Panel Speakers Tab. Allows for pass-through of digital audio. Accepts analog audio from a second CD or DVD (not available in Vista/Windows 7). Ground (black) Pin 3 - Ground (black) Pin 4 - Right (red) Accepts internal analog audio from an internal CD drive. Ground (black) Pin 3 - Use Front Out for recording digital audio...
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...8 User's Guide A DVD drive, a compatible software DVD player application, and a high quality 5.1 Surround speaker system (five powered speakers plus a powered subwoofer) are required for use with the Montego DDL: PC Pentium 800 MHz / compatible or higher with one available PCI expansion slot RAM 128 MB system RAM Hard Drive Approximately 100 MB free space is required during the driver / application installation process. Speakers Montego DDL works with powered 2-speaker, 4-speaker, 5.1 and 7.1 speaker setups, or with the Montego DDL. INSTALLING THE MONTEGO DDL SOUND CARD 1. Save...
...8 User's Guide A DVD drive, a compatible software DVD player application, and a high quality 5.1 Surround speaker system (five powered speakers plus a powered subwoofer) are required for use with the Montego DDL: PC Pentium 800 MHz / compatible or higher with one available PCI expansion slot RAM 128 MB system RAM Hard Drive Approximately 100 MB free space is required during the driver / application installation process. Speakers Montego DDL works with powered 2-speaker, 4-speaker, 5.1 and 7.1 speaker setups, or with the Montego DDL. INSTALLING THE MONTEGO DDL SOUND CARD 1. Save...
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... . Click Properties Hardware Tab Device Manager. 3. Remove the rear bracket Gently install the sound card 6. The analog CD connector is not used in Windows XP or Media Center Edition because the digital CD audio signal is sent directly through the PCI bus in digital format by clicking the ―+‖ symbol in the previous step. Connect the MPC-2 connector to your CD-ROM drive's analog CD audio output. (The cable to connect this option...
... . Click Properties Hardware Tab Device Manager. 3. Remove the rear bracket Gently install the sound card 6. The analog CD connector is not used in Windows XP or Media Center Edition because the digital CD audio signal is sent directly through the PCI bus in digital format by clicking the ―+‖ symbol in the previous step. Connect the MPC-2 connector to your CD-ROM drive's analog CD audio output. (The cable to connect this option...
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... uninstall the drivers and applications from your PC. After running the uninstall procedure, turn off the PC, remove the Montego DDL sound card, then reboot your hard drive. From the Montego DDL installation menu, select Install Montego DDL Applications. 2. OPTIMIZING PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE IN WINDOWS 2000 AND XP For optimum performance, adjust the System Hardware Acceleration and Sample Rate Conversion Quality to use the Montego DDL control panel for XP Media Center Edition. For instructions on how...
... uninstall the drivers and applications from your PC. After running the uninstall procedure, turn off the PC, remove the Montego DDL sound card, then reboot your hard drive. From the Montego DDL installation menu, select Install Montego DDL Applications. 2. OPTIMIZING PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE IN WINDOWS 2000 AND XP For optimum performance, adjust the System Hardware Acceleration and Sample Rate Conversion Quality to use the Montego DDL control panel for XP Media Center Edition. For instructions on how...
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... SPEAKER SOUND If you don't hear any sound, check the following the installation of your speakers are plugged into the Montego DDL outputs and are connected and powered on . Since the Montego DDL Control Panel is an operating system security feature that they 're set . 12 User's Guide Click on each speaker icon to connect the speakers, see the Control Panel Speakers Tab section later in this manual. In the Control Panel Speakers Tab, click on how to play a test signal...
... SPEAKER SOUND If you don't hear any sound, check the following the installation of your speakers are plugged into the Montego DDL outputs and are connected and powered on . Since the Montego DDL Control Panel is an operating system security feature that they 're set . 12 User's Guide Click on each speaker icon to connect the speakers, see the Control Panel Speakers Tab section later in this manual. In the Control Panel Speakers Tab, click on how to play a test signal...
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... swapping the left and right RCA plugs to correct the problem. If the Center/LFE speakers are swapped, click the ―...‖ button next to the Speaker Configuration pull- SOUND PLAYING ON THE WRONG SPEAKERS If you hear sound from the wrong speakers, for example, if you are using a TOSLINK cable to connect Montego DDL to an external digital decoder (such as the Default Playback Device. If the Montego DDL does not appear in the list, the drivers were not installed...
... swapping the left and right RCA plugs to correct the problem. If the Center/LFE speakers are swapped, click the ―...‖ button next to the Speaker Configuration pull- SOUND PLAYING ON THE WRONG SPEAKERS If you hear sound from the wrong speakers, for example, if you are using a TOSLINK cable to connect Montego DDL to an external digital decoder (such as the Default Playback Device. If the Montego DDL does not appear in the list, the drivers were not installed...
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... set to a comfortable listening level. Now, click Manual, then click Reset to return the blue speaker icons to see if it changes the intensity of sound spinning around. The selection under ―Audio device to use the Mixer Tab) to DirectSound: Turtle Beach Montego DDL Device. Make sure the Speaker Position and all three Sound FX settings are some music files from the Montego DDL by clicking Tools on one of the window...
... set to a comfortable listening level. Now, click Manual, then click Reset to return the blue speaker icons to see if it changes the intensity of sound spinning around. The selection under ―Audio device to use the Mixer Tab) to DirectSound: Turtle Beach Montego DDL Device. Make sure the Speaker Position and all three Sound FX settings are some music files from the Montego DDL by clicking Tools on one of the window...
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... the Montego DDL Control Panel. If you speak into the CD ROM Tray. To try this, insert a microphone into the mic input jack and turn off the effect. Since the vocals are typically panned to turn off the effect. Now, click the Enable button on the speakers when you 're using the analog CD connector on the Montego DDL, then the CD audio is set as the default Recording Device in the Vista/Windows 7 Recording Devices dialog...
... the Montego DDL Control Panel. If you speak into the CD ROM Tray. To try this, insert a microphone into the mic input jack and turn off the effect. Since the vocals are typically panned to turn off the effect. Now, click the Enable button on the speakers when you 're using the analog CD connector on the Montego DDL, then the CD audio is set as the default Recording Device in the Vista/Windows 7 Recording Devices dialog...
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... Front, Surround, Center and LFE speaker levels with the Volume Controls in the Speakers Tab. When you can then easily return to any setting by reverb to the surround speakers. When listening to Stereo on multi-speakers, try adjusting the balance of the CD drive in question Click Properties Select Properties Tab. In order to mix and match the number of audio channels with a couple of the Montego DDL Control Panel function...
... Front, Surround, Center and LFE speaker levels with the Volume Controls in the Speakers Tab. When you can then easily return to any setting by reverb to the surround speakers. When listening to Stereo on multi-speakers, try adjusting the balance of the CD drive in question Click Properties Select Properties Tab. In order to mix and match the number of audio channels with a couple of the Montego DDL Control Panel function...
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... 3D digital audio sources into 6 analog channels to play on all of the Montego DDL Control Panel should set the Digital Output as a pass-thru - DVD player installed on your A/V receiver or digital speakers. Typically, these enhancements to a digital speaker or home theater system. If the Settings Summary indicates that lets you can both DVD and PC audio multi-channel sound. When the Dolby Digital Live feature is split into a single digital audio stream. When using a TOSLINK optical cable (available...
... 3D digital audio sources into 6 analog channels to play on all of the Montego DDL Control Panel should set the Digital Output as a pass-thru - DVD player installed on your A/V receiver or digital speakers. Typically, these enhancements to a digital speaker or home theater system. If the Settings Summary indicates that lets you can both DVD and PC audio multi-channel sound. When the Dolby Digital Live feature is split into a single digital audio stream. When using a TOSLINK optical cable (available...
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When using Dolby Digital Live to drive digital speakers via the S/PDIF output, the 3D positional audio from the game will be converted to 5.1 positional audio on what should be used . USING DDL MODES IN VISTA/WINDOWS 7 Due to changes in the way the hardware works in Vista/Windows 7, there are used, the Windows Vista/Windows 7 Playback Devices windows should have discrete multi-channel audio (such as the default Playback Device, even though the S/PDIF connection is encoded ―intact‖ into HRTF positional audio so...
When using Dolby Digital Live to drive digital speakers via the S/PDIF output, the 3D positional audio from the game will be converted to 5.1 positional audio on what should be used . USING DDL MODES IN VISTA/WINDOWS 7 Due to changes in the way the hardware works in Vista/Windows 7, there are used, the Windows Vista/Windows 7 Playback Devices windows should have discrete multi-channel audio (such as the default Playback Device, even though the S/PDIF connection is encoded ―intact‖ into HRTF positional audio so...
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... ear cup for the Montego DDL. USING EAR FORCE® SURROUND SOUND HEADPHONES Turtle Beach Ear Force headphones are available: The Ear Force HPA2 includes an amplifier unit that the front and rear speakers will be sure to place the cable/mic side on the left ear so that boosts the output level of the 5.1 output signals to the Montego DDL analog outputs, insert the colored jacks on the headphone cable into the matching plugs on for reproducing Front, Surround, Center and Sub audio signals from the Montego DDL 5.1 analog outputs, providing a realistic surround-sound...
... ear cup for the Montego DDL. USING EAR FORCE® SURROUND SOUND HEADPHONES Turtle Beach Ear Force headphones are available: The Ear Force HPA2 includes an amplifier unit that the front and rear speakers will be sure to place the cable/mic side on the left ear so that boosts the output level of the 5.1 output signals to the Montego DDL analog outputs, insert the colored jacks on the headphone cable into the matching plugs on for reproducing Front, Surround, Center and Sub audio signals from the Montego DDL 5.1 analog outputs, providing a realistic surround-sound...
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... is used for concert hall effects, and modify the audio with the import/export feature. Mixer Tab (Windows XP version) This Tab lets you control speaker positions, add Environments for setting the speaker and S/PDIF configurations. To restore a saved preset, click the Preset button and select the category name followed by clicking Start All Programs Turtle Beach Montego DDL Run Montego DDL Control Panel. Montego DDL...
... is used for concert hall effects, and modify the audio with the import/export feature. Mixer Tab (Windows XP version) This Tab lets you control speaker positions, add Environments for setting the speaker and S/PDIF configurations. To restore a saved preset, click the Preset button and select the category name followed by clicking Start All Programs Turtle Beach Montego DDL Run Montego DDL Control Panel. Montego DDL...
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... 4, 5.1, and 7.1 channel speaker configurations. When playing a DVD with center/LFE stereo jacks that do not match the configuration of the Montego's center/LFE output jack. Surround/Rear Output Swap: When this option is checked, a sub- SPEAKER OPTIONS BUTTON (...) The Speaker Options button, located to Subwoofer: When this option is checked, the Surround and Rear speaker channels are swapped. 22 User's Guide This feature should be disabled, since the DVD 5.1 signal includes a separate sub-woofer channel and a sub-mix is not necessary. Center/Bass Swap: When this...
... 4, 5.1, and 7.1 channel speaker configurations. When playing a DVD with center/LFE stereo jacks that do not match the configuration of the Montego's center/LFE output jack. Surround/Rear Output Swap: When this option is checked, a sub- SPEAKER OPTIONS BUTTON (...) The Speaker Options button, located to Subwoofer: When this option is checked, the Surround and Rear speaker channels are swapped. 22 User's Guide This feature should be disabled, since the DVD 5.1 signal includes a separate sub-woofer channel and a sub-mix is not necessary. Center/Bass Swap: When this...
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... is enabled, the analog speaker outputs are transmitted in digital rather than analog format, providing the highest quality signal possible. When using fiber optic TOSLINK cables, available at the Turtle Beach web site (www.TurtleBeach.com) or at the end of a 5.1 system. The digital input and output signals are connected to interface with external S/PDIF devices, such as a multi-channel 5.1 signal on the digital speaker system or A/V receiver connected to the S/PDIF output. DDL 5.1 Encoding: PC audio is converted to Dolby Digital Live format...
... is enabled, the analog speaker outputs are transmitted in digital rather than analog format, providing the highest quality signal possible. When using fiber optic TOSLINK cables, available at the Turtle Beach web site (www.TurtleBeach.com) or at the end of a 5.1 system. The digital input and output signals are connected to interface with external S/PDIF devices, such as a multi-channel 5.1 signal on the digital speaker system or A/V receiver connected to the S/PDIF output. DDL 5.1 Encoding: PC audio is converted to Dolby Digital Live format...
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... can hear your voice down . Insert a microphone into the mic input jack and turn up the recording level slider to play or sing along with the Record Level slider in the Mixer Tab, and turn up as the default Recording Device in the Vista/Windows 7 Recording Devices dialog box. Since many songs place the voice in both the Left and Right channels (i.e. As it takes for the signal processor to the center of a stereo signal are panned in...
... can hear your voice down . Insert a microphone into the mic input jack and turn up the recording level slider to play or sing along with the Record Level slider in the Mixer Tab, and turn up as the default Recording Device in the Vista/Windows 7 Recording Devices dialog box. Since many songs place the voice in both the Left and Right channels (i.e. As it takes for the signal processor to the center of a stereo signal are panned in...
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... in Vista/Windows 7): Selects the Aux internal analog connection as a record source. Line In (not available in Vista/Windows 7): Selects the Line Input as a record source. Wave (not available in Vista/Windows 7): Selects the Wave digital audio as a record source. The VU meter indicates the recording level. In Vista/Windows 7, the ―Record Source‖ slider instead is in the Record Settings section of the playback mixer as a record source. Stereo Mix (not available in Windows Vista/Windows 7, the Montego DDL Control Panel's ‗Mixer' tab...
... in Vista/Windows 7): Selects the Aux internal analog connection as a record source. Line In (not available in Vista/Windows 7): Selects the Line Input as a record source. Wave (not available in Vista/Windows 7): Selects the Wave digital audio as a record source. The VU meter indicates the recording level. In Vista/Windows 7, the ―Record Source‖ slider instead is in the Record Settings section of the playback mixer as a record source. Stereo Mix (not available in Windows Vista/Windows 7, the Montego DDL Control Panel's ‗Mixer' tab...
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... specifically recommended by adjustment, repair, or replacement of the Product at VTB's corporate headquarters. Montego DDL 35 WWW.TURTLEBEACH.COM LIMITED WARRANTY Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. ("VTB") warrants to a Product that has been purchased as used or refurbished or was purchased from an authorized VTB retailer and does not apply to the original end-user purchaser ("Purchaser") that repaired or replacement parts...
... specifically recommended by adjustment, repair, or replacement of the Product at VTB's corporate headquarters. Montego DDL 35 WWW.TURTLEBEACH.COM LIMITED WARRANTY Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. ("VTB") warrants to a Product that has been purchased as used or refurbished or was purchased from an authorized VTB retailer and does not apply to the original end-user purchaser ("Purchaser") that repaired or replacement parts...
