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Author Topic: How Do Drive In Cinemas Work? Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-08-2007 08:09 PM                       quote: Jack Ondracek However, adding a passive pot to the center channel will lower stereo separation because you're effectively feeding one channel to another through the pot. No, I was talking about a mixer at that point. Gordon has a good point, about the matrix pumping sounds. Jack has the answer with the Behringer number... Incidentally, I've used these on Carmike mono houses that are running DLP: Rack mount mixer  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-09-2007 05:12 AM                     There are houses running DLP yet are still in mono? That's just bizarre.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-09-2007 10:46 AM                       In instances where they haven't yet bought the speakers, and/or had the work done in the auditoriums to upgrade existing mono houses to 5.1, yes, they are running DLP monaurally. All the booth work is ready... racks, wires pulled, etc.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-09-2007 04:26 PM                     Still, even if it's only a mono house...it's GOT to be better than 35mm...it's after all.  |  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 04-10-2007 12:18 PM                        While you're ordering a mixer be sure to get yourself a compressor too. Even if you use little compression and just use it mainly for limiting it'll be worth every penny. I've used a half dozen or so Alto ACL2 Pro units in drive-ins with good results. They're cheap as hell, compared to say a Lexicon, too. Their manuals even reference "Good old analog technology". http://www.altoproaudio.com/html/dynamic_processors.php http://www.altoproaudio.com/html/details.php?ID=23 If anybody buys these, make sure you get the ACL2 PRO and not just plain ACL2. The "pro" version can link the channels for stereo operation, the base version can't link channels (and is missing a gate rate control IIRC).  |  IP: Logged

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