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Re: for all you high end surround heads out there

Subject: Re: for all you high end surround heads out there
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:54:47 -0700
>I really feel that many of the movie production people have missed
>the boat on surround sound and with their camera based thinking
>always want the recorded sound in front of the source.  The results
>can be heard by renting out most any film done with surround right
>now.  The rears get pushed back to being a mere sound reinforcement
>and seldom do you hear it used for an immersion.  All it accomplishes
>is having the wife come into the room when the effects come in and
>yell turn down the volume. This is where we can guide them and why I
>didn't bother with the center channel for now.
>

Maybe, Rich. But what the movie folks who work in sound (like the
fellas and gals at Skywalker Sound such as Randy Thom) instinctively
know is that we tend to hear what we're looking at. It's axiomatic in
their work and pretty much in Western culture.

Bernie
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