Thunderous overhead surround! "World Trade Center"

[Dolby CP-200]

Thunderous overhead surround!​

With tonight’s showing of the Oliver Stones dramatization of the events of September 11th 2001 with thousands of soils still trapped within the two towers one after another each of them came thundering down to a heap of twisted steel and concrete.

You can hear the building buckling under tons of pressure until it rains thunderously overhead down the sides, “McLonghlin” gives the order two his men to run towards the elevator shaft fast!

Distant sounds of screaming of employees running around, it’s a disturbing and distorting sound to hear! Hard to imagine but (Soundelux) have created one memorable sound mix, right down to the rushing air of implosion!

Overhead surround is an easy thing to set-up as well as adding dimension to the surround field, of looking to the sides and above you, creates enormous suspense. So just as me what home cinema sound system you have and I’ll give a few guidelines to getting it set-up.

 

[Audioholics]

Hard to imagine but (Soundelux) have created one memorable sound mix, right down to the rushing air of implosion!

Those are my boys!

 

[Seth=L]

I didn't have an initial interest in this movie, now I do.

 

[darien87]

Being from the Uk, maybe it's not the same for you. I just don't know if I'm ready to see this movie yet. I haven't seen United 93 for the same reason.

 

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darien87

I know exactly how you feel. It sent shudders down my spine seeing those poor souls within the building itself, unaware of what was happing on the outside !

I don’t blame you for not wanting to see it, I thought it was all too early to do anything about this subject. If it had been left alone for 20 years it might apparel.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

After listening very closely and looking at the reactions of Nicolas Cage’s character the eyes looking upwards towards the ceiling and realizing all I need to do here is simply re-plugging of the four-channel surround array.

So I re-plugged the outputs for (surround matrix) and assigned it to the x4 JBL control 1.

The 2x JBL control 1 that are placed above I re-plugged the outputs using the centre back mode and assigned them for (height surrounds) and it really worked knocked my socks off it did. I was looking above to the sides the fronts the heights it was a confusing sequence and worked very effectively.

Most you with Dolby-EX would have to add matching surrounds the same as used for sidewalls centre back for timber matching reasons.

Also you will have no sound from the centre back that, so this is why I used a Dolby Pro-Logic decoder (separate) for the past 9 years now. It’s just got one additional output which still adds mood and tension.

So looks like some of you will have a lot of re-plugging to do here, get separate Dolby Pro-Logic decoder from a second-hand shop of if you still happen to have one laying around then, well re-plug those surrounds using the RCA phone and send the inputs to the Dolby Pro-Logic decoder.

Use the internal amplifications centre back output for dts-ES and assign that to a new array of surrounds placed at the back, and turn of the Dolby Pro-Logic decoder when playing dts-ES.

I know sounds really confusing, but ain’t it great.

 

[Rob Babcock]

With my luck, the speakers would come loose and fall on my head!

 

[Seth=L]

With my luck, the speakers would come loose and fall on my head!

With my luck my subs will die. I remember loosing my M&K sub to Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the power supply shorted out during the transition from the suburbs to the underground's main entrance to "The Hive". There was some LFE, well a lot of LFE, that wasn't audible but was forcing the sub to work very hard, and it croaked. There is nothing more pleasant than hearing the voice coil slam hard against the magnet structure and then it shuts off and won't turn back on, super depressing.

Ashley, are there any LFEs that I should be aware of that could be potentially damaging to my system?

 

[stratman]

With my luck, the speakers would come loose and fall on my head!

With mine,I'd say fire.

 

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Seth=L

What is this a joke, not if you’re really careless the impact was supportive from the LFE.1 track where it didn’t for one moment overwhelm any part of the sub bass extension, it felt like concrete slamming down, one piece at a time.

If you feel one sub won’t do it for the LFE.1 then add another, and if you don’t think two is going to do it with just like it does in the THX cinemas. World Trade Centre played at the Empire, and you could imagine what 20KW of sub bass JBL power would be doing, I tell you a lot from past experience from being there.

And that’s just 20KW for the sub bass array, overall is 56KW the most powerful THX cinema in whole of Europe.

From what I was getting from the LFE.1 was enough to make the neighbours barking mad!

 

[Seth=L]

Seth=L

What is this a joke, not if you’re really careless the impact was supportive from the LFE.1 track where it didn’t for one moment overwhelm any part of the sub bass extension, it felt like concrete slamming down, one piece at a time.

If you feel one sub won’t do it for the LFE.1 then add another, and if you don’t think two is going to do it with just like it does in the THX cinemas. World Trade Centre played at the Empire, and you could imagine what 20KW of sub bass JBL power would be doing, I tell you a lot from past experience from being there.

And that’s just 20KW for the sub bass array, overall is 56KW the most powerful THX cinema in whole of Europe.

From what I was getting from the LFE.1 was enough to make the neighbours barking mad!

The volume wasn't even that high when this happened, the LFE was extremely low and hard to acheive, the impedance probably dipped super low for at least 5-7 seconds.

And no, it is not a joke, very serious.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

Seth=L

I see you have (Underworld Evolution) in the DVD collection I might be able to assist you.

 

[Seth=L]

Seth=L

I see you have (Underworld Evolution) in the DVD collection I might be able to assist you.

Ha, I love that movie. I have both Underworld movies. I think that Kate is one the most beautiful people ever.

 

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Seth=L

Well I was going to do a sound test on that this evening but, got a little sidetracked as usual. I like tweaking things.

 

[j_garcia]

So, the real question is, is the movie any good?

I'm not 100% sure I am ready to watch it yet.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

j_garcia

Listening to the audio commentary session by one of the survivors Will Jimeno, had a nice since of humour about it and thou the poor bugger was trapped under a concrete slab along with John McLoughlin who had the worse injuries it is a gruelling second act where you have to watch it.

Rent it out and if the flashbacks are too much for you turn it off. Its good true-life drama *****