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Old 16th February 2007   #18
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OK! Georgia, I have a head-ache in my eye after reading that!

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Originally Posted by georgia View Post
"That's why Stanley Kubrick mixed all his films in mono. He was mixing it so that it would sound good in the cheapest theater under the worst conditions. We have to find a way to convince filmmakers that they need to be subtle and worry about how the show will sound in Des Moines, not on some state-of-the-art, digital sound stage."
this is not entirely accurate.....

Kubrick mixed 2001 in stereo, but, according to Ioan Allen of Dolby, he let it get away from him and became confused by the balance game. So, he did the rest of his films in mono to concentrate the mind on the story.

but, yes, point well-taken.
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