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Topic: whats to be found in the center console of your van
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Mark Hathaway
Film Handler
Posts: 31
From: Australia
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-13-2002 02:14 AM
found it amusing while sitting at the traffic lights on the way home from a call out to take a peek at what i've got in the center console of my van.1 cp500 card pulling tool
2 dolby pens
4 faulty speco micro switches
1 faulty fp30 stop switch
few odd feet of unknown credits
bunch of screws a projectionist is still probably cursing at me for taking
and 1 kinoton fp50d aperture motor never know what one might need while driving along
as for whats in the back of the can, you name it, its in there. (picture a mitsubishi van stuffed to the roof with all types of cinema goodies, from dolby cards to spools of film)
Mark Hathaway
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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-15-2002 04:55 PM
Ky just bought a new (for him) car. He used to drive a 1990 Honda Accord Coupe but he now has a 1998 Honda Oddyssy (The smaller one). The Accord Coupe has been sitting around my house for a month. So today I decided to clean it out and give it a bath. First of all, it didn't start so I had to Jump it. Then I found two Swisher Sweet Cigars in the glove box?!  Ky doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs. So what are two cigars doing in his glove box? Just thought I would see if I could get this discussion back on track. Now that my Dodge Caravan "Norge" is clean and Ky's Accord Coupe is clean there is nothing in the center concole of either vehical. But his Accord Coupe drives so well, I may just drive it for the next week. 
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-16-2002 12:37 AM
American Cineatographer did what could be considered a definative issue devoted entirely to EARTHQUAKE and Sensurroud, Not sure of the month, but more than likely it came out the same year as the EARTHQUAKE release. And of course, it only really worked as a concept for EARTHQUAKE since the rumble sound was not on the soundtrack but generated by an outboard synthisizer. The minute they moved the deep sound into the soundtrack mix for the subsequent releases, using filters and threshold sensing circuits, it became plagued with technical problems. I saw EARTHQUATE in 4trk mag/Sensurround twice -- once in Chicago and once in NYC -- it was an truely amazing effect....even made the silly dialogue bearable because you knew it wouldn't be to long before Loren Greene would have to stop talking because he would be drowned out by the glorious, pit-of-the-stomach-shaking sound of the earthquake. Then I saw BATTLESTAR GLACTICA years later when they realized they had to do more than just make a single rumble sound, so they a variety of sounds for Sensurround to play back right on the soundtrack....along with normal sounds. But the sounds that the threshold amps couldn't distinguish from the actual intended subass sound, were caught by the Sensurround amps. I could and hear every vocal "P" and "B" trigger the subbass processor and wind up exploding like bass cannons into the Sensurround Cerwin-Vegas bins. Every foley sound that had a low end component would wind up being halved and pumped into the Sensurround channel. Every time someone was about to place a book or a cup on a table, you sat holding your breath in anticipation of the sonic boom it would engender. Of course today with descrete digital channels, putting specific subbass sounds directly into the Sensurround system would be a piece of cake, without all that trickery trying to extricate if from the normal audio. All I know is, I sure wouldn't mind having a bunch of those 32in speakers to play around with.
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