Manual and Automated Control of Multi-Channel Theater Sound Systems

Lynn Allan McCroskey

This article describes the TAC-86 Theater Audio Controller, designed to alleviate the numerous problems in the sound playback system in film and multi-media theaters. Such routine functions as source and equalization or processing selection, volume control, channel assignment, and public address functions are involved. A TAC-86 system usually consists of up to eight Channel Fader Input/Output (CFI/O) cards, A Sub-Bass card, a Public Access card, a matrix (MX) card, a Microphone Preamplifier (MICPRE) card, and a System Logic (SYSLOG) card.

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1984-06
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J03553