If the sound comes from one speaker at a time, you can make it sound like sound is moving around the room in a strange pattern. You could have a speaker that makes it sound like the announcer sniffed helium. Guitar style reverb would make cricket chirps sound better.
Cirque du Soleil’s Love in Las Vegas (the Beatles one) is one hell of a set-up. 6 speakers (counting your personal subwoofer under your seat) per person, plus focused ones on and above the stage and then ambiance/echo ones surrounding the whole audience.
If there are 30 students in the class, and they need 5 or 6 big speakers per student, then that makes 150 to 180 big speakers. Where are they going to put the students?
Given the fact that films shown in schools of the time were all in mono sound, there would be no true surround, only the same channel repeated in multiple speakers. Films of the time also had limited bass.
Ah, those old days, when we used to worry about the difference between the East Coast sound of Acoustic Research AR-1s vs. the West Coast Sound of the JBL L100/4311 vs the massive Klipschorns vs the electrostatic Quads. (West Coasters claimed that ARs sounded that way because Edgar Villchur’s seat at the Boston Symphony was under the balcony and therefore muffled. Actually, I once visited the AR factory in Cambridge and met Villchur.) Nowadays, my ears aren’t that great, and my hearing aids help only a bit.
Templo S.U.D. almost 3 years ago
yeah, the page of lunacy
sirbadger almost 3 years ago
If the sound comes from one speaker at a time, you can make it sound like sound is moving around the room in a strange pattern. You could have a speaker that makes it sound like the announcer sniffed helium. Guitar style reverb would make cricket chirps sound better.
cdward almost 3 years ago
I just gotta wonder what their budget is.
superkrispy almost 3 years ago
I’m sensing a National Lampoon Christmas-style power drain coming.
Joseph Shelby Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Cirque du Soleil’s Love in Las Vegas (the Beatles one) is one hell of a set-up. 6 speakers (counting your personal subwoofer under your seat) per person, plus focused ones on and above the stage and then ambiance/echo ones surrounding the whole audience.
Purple People Eater almost 3 years ago
If there are 30 students in the class, and they need 5 or 6 big speakers per student, then that makes 150 to 180 big speakers. Where are they going to put the students?
smilingtexan almost 3 years ago
will they be able to get funding for such a setup?
David in Webb Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I’m pretty sure the teacher is going to say “NO”!!!!
BiggerNate91 almost 3 years ago
The audience is now deaf. JMX Sound.
BakaBard almost 3 years ago
Okay – I know JMX is just a play on THX, but I have to wonder what the initials mean in this universe. ;-)
Bill The Nuke almost 3 years ago
Wait until they see the non-existent school budget.
Robert4170 almost 3 years ago
Given the fact that films shown in schools of the time were all in mono sound, there would be no true surround, only the same channel repeated in multiple speakers. Films of the time also had limited bass.
Brian Premium Member almost 3 years ago
“Your budget for new equipment is $5.”
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 3 years ago
Is this for their classroom, or a large concert hall?
cherns Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Ah, those old days, when we used to worry about the difference between the East Coast sound of Acoustic Research AR-1s vs. the West Coast Sound of the JBL L100/4311 vs the massive Klipschorns vs the electrostatic Quads. (West Coasters claimed that ARs sounded that way because Edgar Villchur’s seat at the Boston Symphony was under the balcony and therefore muffled. Actually, I once visited the AR factory in Cambridge and met Villchur.) Nowadays, my ears aren’t that great, and my hearing aids help only a bit.