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Author Topic: Anyone got any Sensurround information? Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-29-2003 04:14 AM                        Hi im interested in the Sensurround sound system, if anyone out there has any technical details, circuits etc or any equipment i'd love to know more. Sounds like it was a great system which didnt catch on. Many Thanks Darren  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-29-2003 04:52 AM                     The only thing I can say is the subwooers, for the most part, they were made by Cerwin Vega. It was a shitty speaker, designed to make noise, and it was exactly what it did. There is no place that I know of that will accept those speakers as a general sub-woofer. So be it. It was one of the most non-linear 18-inch speakers that was ever produced. But in the movie Earthquake, it did its job correctly. UA abandoned them after the movie Earthquake. There may be some floating around in the back room of the old barns.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-29-2003 06:51 AM                        Sensurround I experienced Sensurround in Berlin with "Battlestar Galactica", around 1980. It was quite fun for a 12 year old. There was a text before the feature with a warning for people with heart conditions and pace makers. They still had the stuff in that cinema a few years later. I think in the later 80s they showed "Battlestar" once more. Later I met a guy who was a projectionist there at that time. He told me how he had to go to the bathroom once during a show. The bathroom was in the basement, and the Sensurround came on while he was sitting on the pot...  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-29-2003 09:40 AM                     The Cerwin Vega subwoofers were used for all subsequent Universal Sensurround movies (Midway, Rollercoaster, Battlestar Galactia) and were re-used by WB for their Megasound system (Altered States, Superman II, Outland, and perhaps one other). The patent documents for the process show great detail on the system and how it worked.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-29-2003 10:41 AM                        It wasn`t really a good thing for general cinema, just a funny gimmick. Basically everything started to vibrate, that`s it. It wasn`t like some ultra-subwoofer or something like that. Although it was quite loud...  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-29-2003 11:03 AM                        Sensurround post from rec.arts.movies.tech Usenet newsgroup.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-29-2003 11:58 AM                     After reading the article, I'm a little confused. If all Zoot Suit used was the DBX NR part of Sensurround and not the subs (and even not utilizing Lightsurround), shouldn't the "new" format be called "Sensurround Minus"?.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-29-2003 12:42 PM                        No info on it, but I still have a headache from it!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-29-2003 01:06 PM                     I have a Sensaround Processor that I'll take pics of and post later on today. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-29-2003 01:09 PM                        Or "Sensurround Light". Which gives me a good idea for Phil: since he has designed special venues, he could combine that experience with his adult website and create "Sinsurround"! What is "Sensaround"? Another fascinating technology I have never heard about.  |  IP: Logged Stan Gunn Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Clematis, in the hills near Melbourne Australia Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-29-2003 04:21 PM                        I have 2 processors 1 mag 1 optical (i think) havent looked at them for a while, alsi have circuits etc around. I think I also have the mod list for Midway, will dig it out Ive got curious again.  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-30-2003 03:29 PM                        Stan, Sounds great, would love to see any info you have on it. Im after a Mag version as im wanting to use it with 70mm. Many thanks for the help so far!!! Darren  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 06-03-2003 01:48 AM                        The mother of all Sensurround films, "Earthquake" is shown in 70mm and Sensurround June 22, 2003 in Germany. More here [ 07-10-2007, 04:29 AM: Message edited by: Thomas Hauerslev ]  |  IP: Logged Lionel Fouillen Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Belgium Registered: Nov 2002 posted 06-03-2003 02:03 AM                     Michael, I also saw Galactica in Sensurround when I was a kid, in Liège. Although impressive, I now think it was just to enhance the uninteresting 35mm/1.66/optical mono presentation  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-03-2003 08:26 AM                     ...wonder if my 16mm scope airline print of Midway has control tones. That would really give the wife something to gripe about.  |  IP: Logged

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