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Posted by Mark Hathaway (Member # 1044) on 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
Posted by John Anastasio (Member # 607) on 04-14-2002, 08:10 AM:
On some streets here in town, the locals could have that thing emptied while you wait at a stop light....if they didn't just pull you out and take the whole thing. I swear that a few of the cars that ride up my block have SenSurround systems installed. On a hot summer night, it sounds like a road show of "Tora Tora Tora" around here.
Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 04-14-2002, 11:17 AM:
"SenSurround" now that brings back memories Like "EARTH QUAKE" when they used to have First Aid people to help those who tried to flee the shaking cinema or leaving their lunch on the floor 
Actually Now I remember seeing this in the CINERAMA in 70mm but on a flat screen (they removed the strip Curved screen by then) 
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Posted by John Anastasio (Member # 607) on 04-14-2002, 12:27 PM:
You haven't really heard extremely low bass until you've seen the suspended ceiling tiles moving up and down. There are some great stories related to that system. My favorite involves the china shop that was situated in the mall so that it shared one wall with the back of the screen.
Posted by Mark Hathaway (Member # 1044) on 04-15-2002, 05:30 AM:
The Senior Tech manager at work had thx here in Australia years ago when they were trying to get thx off the ground here. He took the thx guys to what WAS the best site we had here in Melbourne that this now senior manager designed, and had them run out 20 seconds after going in asking 'what the F&*k have you got in there?"apparently two 32" EV sub's in enclosures the size of phone booths had noticable air movement down the exit walkways. Things used to routinly fall off the building too.
Mark Hathaway
Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 04-15-2002, 02:18 PM:
Does anyone have a link with SenSuround info? It sounds like fun!!!
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-15-2002, 03:42 PM:
Some links:
http://members.aol.com/earthquakemovie/trivia.html
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/loudspeaker.html
http://www.mtsu.edu/~smpte/seventies.html
http://www.insidehi-fi.co.uk/cp/1001-cp-lamba/1001-cp-lamba.htm I've had the good fortune to serve on several technical committees with Dick Stumpf, the co-inventor of Sensurround. 
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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 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.
Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 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.
Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 04-16-2002, 06:38 AM:
At the Auckland Cinerama a Restaurant next to the cinema would be shaken quite violently when the SenSurround kicked in and if you tried to stand while it was active ,it was very hard to walk properly , the front section of the cinema seating had to be roped off as those seated there , would be quite physically blown away 
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-16-2002, 03:25 PM:
The next person to reply, please open up a new topic for Sensurround. All further replies on this thread regarding Sensurround will be deleted as it is off topic.
Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 04-18-2002, 05:09 AM:
getting back to the subject , well I don't have a Van , but I do have a Holden Commodore (the Out-Back Tamer)and I always carried a couple of Splicing Tape Rolls with me , cause I got tired of turning up to Booths that only had a small amount left on the Splicer ,also take my trusty C.I.R with me just in case ......weeell it's trusty to me 
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