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Author Topic: keeping moniter on high volume Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-29-2003 01:20 AM                        I actually LOOK at the lateral guide closure as the film starts up. Yes, I actually open the door myself and see that it is closed. And then I close it while watching the mechanism. Not all of ours will buzz with that thing open. I have never had it pop open except at startup. Yes, the 5-stars could be designed MUCH better and far more logically.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-29-2003 02:20 AM                     Joe said: quote: "I actually LOOK at the lateral guide closure as the film starts up. Yes, I actually open the door myself and see that it is closed". Bah!...I have more important things to do on start-up than to bend over and scratch my butt, open a door and say "Duh, it didn't flop open this time" and close the door again. Furthermore, I want to know if I have sound out there without even guessing or dicking around with a window to open it so I can stick my head out into the auditorium to find out...that's what I have a monitor for. Kind of reminds me of an operator that did that once in the old carbon-arc days. The booth was hotter than a popcorn fart, and the operator took all his cloths off except his boxer shorts. Well, he stuck his head out the booth window, leaned a little too far out, and fell out of his booth. He tried to get back in the booth, but the door was locked. He had to run through the theatre, down into the concession area and into the office to get a spare key. The customers thought it was funny to see someone (namely the projectionist) running around in the theatre practically bare-assed naked. He definately got caught with his "pants down".... But I agree, that 5-1/2 Star soundhead could use some improvements....  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-29-2003 02:58 AM                     Paul, Sounds like a job for a microswitch mounted in the 5 Star hooked to a buzzer or light! Really, it wouldn't be very hard to implement.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-29-2003 02:59 AM                     Hey, that's a great idea, Brad.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-29-2003 03:10 AM                        Hooked to a buzzer? You mean hooked to a Cine Gong!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-29-2003 03:12 AM                     Yes of course that's what I meant.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-29-2003 03:19 AM                     Yes...real loud gongs, red lights flashing, sirens, and a Tesla coil wired to the projectionist's chair.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-29-2003 10:24 AM                     I usually move about in the booth enough that I will pass most sound racks several times in a half hour. With the monitor on just high enough to notice it walking by, it is more likely that I'll catch the "no sound" problem before a customer complains to someone downstairs who then has to try and get a hold of me. (Can you believe some theaters are too cheap to buy radios?) I once got called to a problem at the other end of the booth after starting a showing of FernGully. Twenty minutes later, I went back to find that the projector had stopped (for no apparent reason) in the middle of the second trailer. The customers just sat there in the dark for twenty minutes and didn't say a thing. I don't particularly judge audio "quality" from the monitor, I am just able to determine that it is not horribly distorted (drum damper not closed, etc.). Audio "quality" should be judged from the auditorium. The monitor is primarily there to determine that 1) there is signal going coming out of the processor and 2) there is signal coming out of the amps. If there isn't a valid reason in all that, does "projectionist's peace of mind" count? I have all kinds of weird habits that were started because of a fluke in the booth.  |  IP: Logged Craig Hanham Film Handler Posts: 79 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Oct 2001 posted 01-30-2003 12:05 AM                     I'm in the 'use the monitor as an indicator' school. Enough sound coming out tells me if something silly is happening in the sound reproduction so I can check it out. Since I am running change overs its a great way to tell if the sound hasn't (changed), and running green Bollywood prints at a single run its good to know that a bit of emulsion shed has fallen in the optical path. As for running at full noise . If your DM insists, start asking for hearing protection as is your right under Occupational safety when exposed to exessive volume. ,or check your local government department concernig the criteria anyway. Gives you a good comeback for being sensible if handled right i.e. if you go deaf no volume will help.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-30-2003 12:16 AM                        I don't bend over and I don't scratch my ass (it never itches) when I check. Hell, I would rather do something than stand there like a drone waiting for that first image to appear while the leader is running through, so I open the door. My eyesite is good enough that bending over is not required.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-30-2003 12:32 AM                      |  IP: Logged

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