Emotiva BASX MC1, User Manual

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BasX  MC1 Cinema Processor

SETUP - EQ SETUP

This menu enables you to configure the overall EQ settings for the MC1.

EQ 1, EQ 2, EQ 3, EmoQ, EQ Bypass - 

These options determine the EQ settings which will be used 

on the MC1. The selected option will be shown highlighted in red.

Note: This option configures the DEFAULT choice for which set of EQ parameters will be applied 

to each input on the MC1. The option you select here will be used for each input UNLESS YOU 

HAVE CONFIGURED THAT PARTICULAR INPUT TO USE A DIFFERENT EQ OPTION.

The MC1 has three sets of manual EQ settings (

EQ 1, EQ 2, and EQ 3

.) 

Each of these sets offers several parametric equalizer filters for each set of speakers. 

And each of those parametric EQ filters has a configurable center frequency, bandwidth, and gain.
Once you have highlighted one of the EQ filter sets, you can either select it by pressing OK, or you 

can enter into the settings for the individual PEQ filters inside that filter set by pressing the Right 

Arrow button. You can then navigate further into the EQ Setup menu to make changes to the 

individual filter settings. You will also have the option to engage the test signal generator built 

into the MC1, view a visual result of the resulting measurements on a graph, enter your choices 

into the filter settings, and Save and Load some of your settings. 

NOTE: You DO NOT have to connect the calibrated microphone included with your MC1 in order 

to manually enter values here. However, if you wish to take measurements, you must make sure 

that the microphone is connected before doing so.
NOTE: The microphone included with the MC1 is calibrated for “zero degree orientation”. This 

means that, in order to obtain the most accurate results, the front of the microphone should 

be faced towards the speaker you are measuring. Hold the microphone as steadily as you can, 

WITH THE POINT OF THE CONE TOWARDS THE SPEAKER YOU ARE MEASURING, and ensure that 

there are no obstructions between the microphone and the speaker you are measuring.

Prompts on the measurement screen will guide you through the process of taking measurements, 

viewing the results, and saving those results in the manual EQ set you are calibrating.
Selecting the 

EMO-Q

 option here will enable you to view and edit the EQ settings created and 

stored by the EMO-Q Automatic Room Correction System the last time it was run.
You can also select 

EQ Bypass 

here to set the system default to not apply ANY EQ to the selected 

input. 

Note: If you select the Bypass option, the system default will be NO EQ, and EQ will only be 

applied to each selected input if an EQ option other than Default was configured for that input 

in the Setup Input options.
NOTE: When you receive your MC1, and after resetting the unit to Factory Defaults, the Default 

EQ option will be set to Bypass. After running EMO-Q this default will be set to point to the 

EMO-Q EQ settings.