Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!wilson_3
From: wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Miami Vice audio mix/mess
Message-ID: <772@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 14:35:49 EST
Article-I.D.: h-sc1.772
Posted: Thu Nov 21 14:35:49 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 05:48:51 EST
References: <444@olivee.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center
Lines: 21

> 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?"