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Author Topic: Having Problems With My Sound Jeff Newton unregistered posted 05-30-1999 01:10 AM              Can someone help? I am having problems with my digital sound. It keeps clicking loud and soft. Is there anything I can do? Joe Redifer unregistered posted 05-30-1999 01:10 AM              Which sound format? Also, if you are using Dolby Digital, is it the big projector mounted penthouse reader, or is it the basement reader, meaning that there is no extra threading required for digital sound? Let me know and then we'll get down to it! Scott Norwood unregistered posted 05-30-1999 01:10 AM              Are you hearing clicks in the digital output, or are you hearing it fault to the analog optical track? I suspect that this would be easy enough to check by turning off the power to the exciter lamp...if you hear sound alternating with silence, then you're listening to digital faults. There's probably a way to tell what is happening by looking at the front panel of the SDDS unit, but I'm not familiar with the format. In any case, if you're hearing analog faults, then it's probably an alignment issue or a problem with the print, and it's probably in the best interest of your customers to disable the digital system until the problem is fixed (I can't stand analog faults, myself...I'd rather watch a film in SR than hear more than one or two faults during the show). Jeff Newton unregistered posted 05-30-1999 01:11 AM              Sorry. It is the Sony digital system. All of the ones at my theatre do this and so does the ones at my friends theatre. Is there an adjustment? Joe Redifer unregistered posted 05-30-1999 01:12 AM              OK here is probably the best thing you can do. Throw the SDDS unit away. No wait! Sell it and buy 1 DTS unit and 1 Dolby Digital unit and have money left over. John Pena Film Handler Posts: 6 From: Highland Park, NJ USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 09-15-2003 02:28 PM                     Is your dolby digital unit on top of the projector or is it a basement reader?  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 09-15-2003 02:38 PM                     Woah! old, old, old thread! John Pena Welcome to the board! But, I assume this 4 year old problem has be delt with!  |  IP: Logged John Pena Film Handler Posts: 6 From: Highland Park, NJ USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 09-15-2003 02:46 PM                     Thanks Michael. I just registered with Film-Tech and was trying out an old thread. I did not realize that it was moved to the front with a new reply.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-15-2003 02:49 PM                     I think it may very well be just about time to start archiving older posts.  |  IP: Logged

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