Oh 2001 has stood the test of time. It looks a lot less dated than many that came out much later. There was lot of very good technical expertise that went into the making.
I went to the Odeon in Glasgow on opening weekend. I walked in about 11ish and myself about 3 or 4 others watched it, The huge vaulted ceiling of the old screen 1 perfectly matched the opening Star Destroyer.
Unforgettable.
We came out and the entire pavement around the block was filled with people waiting to get in
You always remember your first time.
Same deal with the Bournemouth, Gaumont screens 1 Cinerama curved screen and 2 regular large screen. The pavement was chockablock both to left right side entrances for screen 1 and 2 into the cinemas ticket office as there was two one for upstairs and one for downstairs. Three performances per day. Most couldn't get in for last show due to no more seats available, come back tomorrow.
Thought I eject "the pod bay doors" and slip in some Earth-quaking for an experimental Atmos listening. Several scenes in the film visuals with sound that bothers me.
Chapter 4 and 5 the main quake then, Dwayne Johnson, swoops down in his helicopter to save the day.
The scene where the camera is above the helicopter 0:41.06 moves across the scope screen from left to centre to right. The camera is above so therefore the sound would be better placed if there was Real discrete below surround so you'd look slightly downwards but there is a slight elevated angle the helicopter is pitched downwards.
In some homes I guess the matched surrounds would be ear seated level sure that would make sense. Not easy for me to move my surrounds off the wall and place them they are LARGE! Smaller speakers I have I can experiment easily with. So I just ...
Use the Pro-logic on one two CP45 switched ON so the helicopter is heard on left side surrounds then as it moves over its heard from underneath the seats then slowly heard again on right surrounds.
I know the helicopter sound that is overhead when switched to Atmos mode is still partly in 7.1 TrueHD of the regular side surrounds and its only the Atmos decoding that extracts it and then you can hear some brief depth in the overhead surrounds at 0:40.26.
0:40.51 where Carla Gugino, is standing. Sure it looks tense with gas mains in the elevator shaft leaping upwards though all the broken concrete.
What am I thinking of doing now. Its amazing after watching repeated scene after scene of chapter 5, I started to get an idea that may not, may not work entirely but the JBL control 1 I have a little too larger even thou bookshelf types I would need something smaller with fullrange capability. Mounting small JBL Micro to the back of the seats back and feeding it with different signal with EQ capability. I think that would spoil it all see the speakers in front of you at the back row seating. It was only an idea.
Does your AVR have have user options in each video mode to adjust levels independently without touching the main adjusted level settings? I find this option useful that wasn't available on the Onkyo TX SR875.
I also reduced the EQ levels down manually on the AVR but have in mind to get ether two Behringer GEQ3102 manual 1/3 EQ for the height surrounds fitted in the kitchen as there is no rack space left in the main two racks in the THX cinema. Or fit Behringer DEQ2496 as they be slimmer 1U frame size over the others at 2U frame each, plus the DEQ2496 would have extra features for critical adjustments but they not cheap brand new. S/H used they often sell cheap.
The second SDDS processor I use the levels on L-Lc-Rc-R is the four overhead Atmos channels the SW is SW2 while SW1 is on the main SDDS processor with all the rest of the regular channels. SL SR is used five screen channels for left-centre right-centre which is switched off at present,
Normally the helicopter would be at lower levels but I thought I'd experiment as there was plnety of headroom above it, so I reduced the EQ on AVR and turned the gain levels up +8.0db. The overheads when the helicopter appears briefly above has deepness of the rotor blades
0:40.26.
LCR is muted at present time so I can listen with x18 JBL surrounds presently running.