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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 10-11-2002 03:05 AM
Yes Mono SR is for real: Woody Allen does it all the time.The print should play fine in format 05 if it is truly SR encoded. I also remember a few prints in the 80s ('Year Of Living Dangerously' comes to mind) that were Dolby A encoded mono tracks... -Aaron
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-12-2002 12:27 PM
Darren said: >Theoretically, playing a dual mono track with the standard cinema SR format should give you nearly the same results, since the matrix puts the two channels mainly in the center if they are identical.< This is true but it also leaves the L & R "live" and reproducing any dirt and scratch noise that is NOT identical, and on older prints, that can amount to quite a bit of hash. If I were playing on of these SR/mono prints, I would simply kill all but the Center channel amps. Matrix is good, but it isn't descrete; there will always be crap coming out of the other channels if they are left live -- this is just the limitation of the system. Why put up with the result of the matrix limitation (noise out of all the other channels)? On the older generation CPs there is no way to easily configure the noise reduction to engage when playing the Mono format just as there is no way to easily kill the Academy curve. And I firmly believe that late vintage mono pictures, say, from the late 60s on, had clean enough tracks and were so much more advanced in frequency response that lopping off the high end was a terrible practice. Dolby should have a format to kill that damn rolloff, especially for us folks who play rep pictures. Before we got a CP50, we played mono tracks with the mono solar cell going directly into a Norelco ProLine mic preamp (flat response out to 18kHz), no rolloff, no Academy Curve -- pictures sounded great. Frank
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Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 10-12-2002 05:10 PM
Right, DarrenThat nutcase Woody Allen does it all the time. -Remember his musical a few years ago "Everyone says I love You". I received the soundtrack on cd some two weeks ahead of the premiere, -listened to it several times a day - good tunes, beautifull mix, - i was HIGH !
Then came the film - SRmono - everything out of one hole - the most lame movie soundtrack ever and a big turndown !! Almost as disappointing as "Far and Away", where clever marketing people were around to help mixing that GIANT MEGAHIT 70mm TRAILER - ("now, -this is our movie"). -Then the film....... and the directors defense in interviews "súrround sound just confuses the audience" Yak ! Per
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