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Originally Posted by jacobfarron  I will. The design is bound to change quite a bit more. My boss wants more seating capacity - the only way to get it is to use a surround array instead of single speakers. They're also talking about sofit mounting the speakers. And I'm not sure the JBL 6328 we've specked will work for that. I'd love to move up to far field monitors from K&H or Genelec but that's half of our build budget right there.
I am still looking for a book that specifically relates to theater / cinema design. Anyone know of one? Not home theater, but the dub stage type. |
Using an array is correct for this application. You would not want a single pair of direct radiators for surround in a dub stage. I've never seen anything but surround arrays in real dub stages.
Also, if you really want to have a dub stage sound, you would need to get a Dolby curve in there on your B-Chain, and typically you would use JBL cinema speakers (the front three behind a perforated screen) rather than the esoteric music types listen above. If the room really is intended for dubbing, the only way to get translation is to leave the music methods behind and embrace film techniques. If you want playback consistency from stage to theater, that's how to do it. If the goal is more of a DVD style room, then regular speakers without the curve will work.
I'm in the middle of designing a theater classroom that will be constructed later this year for a college that offers both film/video production and audio production. We're using Genelecs in there because the room needs to be somewhat multi-purpose with the audio students, but we are using an array of 6 surrounds because of it's primary focus on film.