the sting likely uses mid-side widening techniques found in many daw plugins these days. And its probably being helped by room effects - especially if the speakers, as many tv's do, are pointed, or partly pointed, back away from the listening area. Bose did this in the 70's (maybe 60's) and since, with their popular direct/reflecting design. as others have pointed out, such widening production techniques have uncertain spatial results and can make things sound awful in some listening situation (like a mono speaker on a tv). The same is more or less true of the speaker technique - bigger sound but coloration effects are very likely.
jim On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Richard Dobson < richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Re odd things heard: is anyone here a regular watcher of "The Big Bang > Theory" show (E4, and on various cable channels)? There is a standard > "sting" (a sort of semi-pitched noise cluster cum whoosh sort of thing, > little more than a second in length) used to transition from one scene to > the next. My stereo TV (full HD but otherwise cheap 32" LCD type) is in > the corner of my lounge, and is in general not notable at all for > significant stereo effects, much less anything more "immersive". Obviously, > the built-in speakers (a generous 2 * 6W) are the typical small tinny > things. > > However, that sting, fleeting as it is, seems to produce a significant > amount of pseudo-surround, very much ~not~ localised to the TV, such that > every time it is really rather surprising. One day I will have to record > and analyse it, but I haven't got around to that yet. Does anyone have any > idea if this is just a random emergent feature of the sound (TV or room > artifact), or has that effect been designed into it in some discernible way? > > > Richard Dobson > .. > >> sometimes (depending on content), the result will be surprising, but >> tricks like these tend to fail on arbitrary content. >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/**mailman/listinfo/sursound<https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound> > -- Jim Moses Technical Director/Lecturer Brown University Music Department and M.E.M.E. (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120807/16525e55/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
