Dolby is a system which reduces the background noise on electronic cassette players. a cassette deck equipped with Dolby noise reduction. a system for reducing unwanted noise when you record music or sounds
A noise reduction technique that raises the volume of the movie sound track elements most likely to be affected by inherent noise during production and then lowers them again during projection so that the noise seems lower in relation to the wanted elements of the sound track 4 13
A company that produces technology for sound reductions and channeling methods Two standards currently exist-Dolby Pro Logic and Dolby Digital
Patented noise/hiss reduction systems developed by Ray Dolby to improve audio recording quality Dolby A is commonly used in television; Dolby B was developed for use in consumer electronics
Trade name for a series of noise reduction systems that have become standard on many tape playback machines Many film soundtracks are produced using this process Different varieties are found from Dolby B on most personal cassette players, to Dolby SR and Digital, the current state of the art for cinema
United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording
The manufacturer (and trademark) of audio noise reduction systems and other systems that improve the performance and fidelity of audio recording, transmission, and playback
A matrix encoding method that combines four channels (Left, Center, Right, and a limited bandwidth Surround channel) into two channels These two channels can be summed together for mono playback, or played back as normal stereo When the two channels are fed into the active Dolgy Pro Logic decoder, the matrix is unfolded back into four channels again The limited bandwidth Surround channel is reproduced through the Left Surround and Right Surround speakers If the matrix is fed into a passive decoder, then only the stereo signal plus the surround channel is unfolded
Matrix analog coding of four audio channels - Left, Center, Right, Surround (LCRS) - into two channels referred to as Right-total and Left-total The Dolby Surround system originally was developed for motion pictures
The encoding process used to make material compatible with Dolby Pro-Logic 2 - Another surround format that came out before Dolby Prologic It consists of only three channels: left/right front channels, and one surround channel