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I am here to tell you that you are leaving a LOT of performance on the table by calibrating your YPAO system using only the Yamaha manual! I know because that’s what I – and many others – did for years.
The microphone patterns in this guide are guaranteed to deliver better surround panning and imaging for both music and movies than what is included in your Yamaha manual – or your money back!
We conducted a survey in 2022, and 8 out of 10 people said that they had achieved at least a 1 point increase (on a 5 point scale) in their YPAO surround sound performance after reading The Lost Manual.
What’s in the Guide?
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I reveal the secrets to getting the very best out of your Yamaha YPAO configuration including:
- How to set up your speakers and your room for optimum results
- The mic patterns that will work best in your room
- 1 tight and 1 medium pattern – these patterns will allow you to prioritise imaging even in larger spaces.
- 1 wide pattern – this is a fail safe pattern – and what is included on the blog!
- Notes on designing your own mic pattern
- Advice for multiple rows of seating
- Configuration changes within your receiver that will allow you to maximise YPAO
- How to choose the ideal subwoofer location in your room to maximise sub performance
- 2 procedures and 2 scoring sheets to help with your subwoofer placement – just use your ears
- Multi-Sub optimisation by integrating with Multi Sub Optimiser (MSO)
- Troubleshooting YPAO – how to troubleshoot issues with YPAO including disjointed surround sound fields and subwoofer issues – step by step
- New Chapter: Loudness Compensation and YPAO Volume (new in v3.0)
- Including implementing house curves based on loudness compensation principles (new in v3.0)
- New Curve Editor Excel Tool (new in v3.0)
- New Loudness Memories Excel Tool (new in v3.0)
- New section on Extra bass including measurements (new in v3.0)
- New Chapter: Editing Manual PEQs (new in v3.0)
- How to integrate YPAO with Dirac Live
- The DOs and DON’Ts of running YPAO
- What to do after running YPAO and configure crossovers, equalisation, surround levels and other settings to get ideal sound
- 70+ pages of dense but easy to understand material based on 100s of hours of research and testing
- Lots of easy to understand explanations to guide you through each step of the process.
- Lots of new diagrams explaining the concepts in a visual manner (new in v3.0)
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3. The walls will literally disappear and the sound will appear to be coming from beyond the walls of your room!
4. Gorgeous natural reverberations like in a purpose-built multiplex!
Did You Know?
– small changes to your speaker positions and room can make a big difference in the sound?
– receiver user guides will show you only one mic pattern to use which may not work well in your room at all!
– room setup is as critical as choosing the right equipment. If you don’t get it right, you are leaving heaps of performance on the table
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Hi
On side 44, you wrote: “Position 2: Same position as number 1 but on the seat to the
right of the centre seat”
But on the picture, Position 2 is directly before Position1. So I guess the picture does not correlate with your documented positions. Is that a fault, or did I not understand something?
BR Ralf
Hi Ralf,
I think you mean position 3: the wide pattern. (Corresponding to page 44 in v3.0)
If you look at the text above it says that only position 1 corresponds to Yamaha’s picture. (“However, this is where the similarities stop. To get an ideal measurement, the following is recommended:”)
But I understand this may be confusing so thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’ll try and get a 3D picture done for this mic pattern for the next version of the guide. Thx again. 🙂
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Where’s my manual? Sent in my money been a a few weeks
Hi Tom, the link is send in email straight away. I have just resent it from the system. Please kindly check in your spam folder in case the link landed there. Thanks!
Love these guides Roland… They give you so much more detail than the standard manual gives you. Its helped me understand key aspects of YPAO and the associated settings! Just got the REW one as i am about to try and get my Monolith 15 and REL 212 playing together!
Thank you so much for that feedback, Dan. I’m really glad you’re finding them useful. 🙂
Both of those subs have excellent time-domain performance for their class. They should be relatively easy to integrate with careful placement.
Please let us know how you go! 🙂
Roland,
Does your manual cover setting up YPAO with two subs and the Yamaha configuration selections? My RX-A3030 can be configured 3 ways: two front subs, a front and rear sub and 2X mono – but Yamaha doesn’t spell out the differences and if YPAO will handle two subs. For example, I’m using front and rear subs but when using that mode, the rear sub receives little signal. The 2X Mono configuration seems to apply the same signal to both subs and can be configured in phase or 180 out.
Hey Chris,
Yes and no. My recommendation is to use 2x Mono because the other options will steer bass from main channels using the appropriate zone. We tested this approach on the new Denons / Marantz too and the approach is not ideal as you lose the benefit of proper bass coverage when doing this.
To be honest, if you want really great bass, you need to invest in a MiniDSP and use MSO (Multi-Sub Optimiser). You COULD use MSO with Yamaha’s in-built independent sub-EQ but it would be experimental and very fiddly.
The above is why The Lost Manual steers you down this road as opposed to messing with front/back or dual front configurations. If you had 4 subs, you COULD run them by grouping them into zones and then use a MiniDSP / MSO calibration per Zone. But again, this is experimental and would question how good this would be unless you have subs with perfect time-domain response, a very well treated room and a room large-enough that different seats would get wildly different timing from the front subs. Not even large cinemas do this btw… 😉
please help I have lost my Yamaha the Lost Manual
Hi Peter,
I have gotten the system to resend the download link to your outlook email. Please check your spam folder as well in case it landed there! Thx