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Other clips included Atmos remixes of scenes from existing movies. The effect was stunning, with sound swirling all around and above the audience. After trying to come up with a soundtrack for existing video, he ended up creating the audio with no visual imagery, and the computer-generated video was added after the fact. We saw and heard several clips, including a 30-second trailer created by sound designer Erik Aadahl, who has appeared as a guest on the Home Theater Geeks podcast. The front speakers and subs are all driven by Crown power amps. The Dolby Theater is quite large≱80,000 square feet with 3400 seatsand the Atmos system fills it nicely with a total of 164 speakers, most of which are self-powered models from Meyer Sound, permanently installed and used by Cirque du Soleil in its Iris show presented 10 times per week in the venue.īehind the screen are three line arrays, each with 10 JBL Vertec VT4888s, as well as six custom-designed JBL subwoofers, each with dual 18-inch drivers. In addition, it's fully backward compatible with conventional 5.1 and 7.1 systems. The current system can reproduce up to 128 individual objects simultaneouslyĪccording to Dolby, the system widens the "sweet spot" to include the entire audience, and it's scalable to match the resources of different theaters. Each sound-generating object, such as a plane, explosion, etc., is placed in a 3-dimensional soundfield by the mixing engineer and reproduced by speakers all around and above the audience.
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Like the 3D Audio Alliance's Multi-Dimensional Audio (MDA) profiled here, here, and here, Dolby Atmos takes an object-oriented approach to movie sound. These speakers are part of the Dolby Atmos sound system installed in the theater, one of only six in operation at the moment, though Dolby expects 15 or more to be up and running in the US by the end of June. The theater looks about the same as it has since it was built in 2001 under the Kodak name, with one obvious exceptiontwo 50-foot trusses suspended overhead, each with 22 speakers. The official unveiling of the venue's new signage will take place this evening amid throngs of peoplean extravaganza not unlike the Academy Awards ceremony that makes its home thereso I was glad to get a sneak peek beforehand.
This morning, I attended a press preview of the newly renamed Dolby Theater at the Hollywood and Highland complex in Hollywood, California.