gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis) (11/16/85)
I just saw the Nov 15 Miami Vice and noticed something very different. The music was mixed drastically louder than normal and sound effects, gun shots and the like, were heavily damped. I really think that a letter complaining about it would be less than useful, but I'll write anyway. I'll bet it was phase cancelling in their "Stereo" equipment. The sound effects were probably mono and loud enough to overpower their crappy auto-stereo switch (the device that fakes stereo when a show is taped in mono). When the gunshots hit, the fake stereo may have kicked-in and caused either switching attenuation or cancelling. --- Or maybe they just layed-off all the good sound people at NBC. Gary (hplabs,allegra,ihnp4)oliveb!olivee!gnome
wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson) (11/21/85)
> I just saw the Nov 15 Miami Vice and noticed something very > different. The music was mixed drastically louder than normal > and sound effects, gun shots and the like, were heavily damped. > > I'll bet it was phase cancelling in their "Stereo" equipment. > The sound effects were probably mono and loud enough to overpower > their crappy auto-stereo switch (the device that fakes stereo when > a show is taped in mono). When the gunshots hit, the fake stereo > may have kicked-in and caused either switching attenuation or cancelling. > I noticed the effect you are talking about, but I attributed it to the weirdness of the episode. The entire show seemed to have a very dreamlike quality (it was about VOODOO, for chrissakes!), and I thought the sound was weird to heighten that effect. > Gary > (hplabs,allegra,ihnp4)oliveb!olivee!gnome The Wombat .:. ------------------------- "Are the noises in my head bothering you?"