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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/The Charlotte Post
Thursday November 20, 1997
Surround sound no new thing
Continued from 5B
the movie theaters.
There are two kinds of
decoders, basic Dolby Surround
and Dolby Surround Pro logic.
Both recover the surround
information from encoded pro
gram material and fed into a
:pair of surround speakers
; placed on the side walls adja-
;cent to the listening area.
■ In a basic Dolby Surround
system, left and right front
J speakers are fed with the
j entire program in normal
j stereo without any processing.
! While the surround speakers
; are fed with a surround signal
I device by a relatively simple
i passive ma matrix decoder. As
I with regular two-channel
1 stereo, the left and right front
1 speakers create a phantom cen-
1 ter channel - but for only those
few viewers seated on center.
By using the same directional
enhancement system found in
professional Dolby Stereo cine
ma processing, however, pro
logic decoders derived a sepa
rate center channel to keep dia
logue and other central sounds
firmly localized on the video
screen. Pro logic also supplies
higher accurate sound position
ing which, along with the cen
ter channel, enable a greatly
expanded listening area. Dolby
Surround Pro logic is the best
way to accurately reproduce
the Dolby stereo theater expe
rience in your home and will
ensure that you hear Dolby
surround sound tracks as the
producer intended.
Basic Dolby Surround
decoders feature:
passive matrix decoding to
derive fee surround channel.
•three output channels, left
right and surround.
•surround channel process
ing; frequency response limited
to TKHZplus
modified Dolly B TVpe noise
reduction.
•Surround channel time
delay fixed at 20 milliseconds
(Thousands of a second
or MS) or variable from 15 to
30 MS.
•Manual input balance con
trols.
•level adjustments to march
surround channel volume to
front channels.
•master volume controls of all
output channels.
Dolby pro logic decoders fea
ture in addition:
•high-separation active
matrix decoding for enhanced
SEE DOLBY On Page 7B
Godfather still has plenty of soul
Continued from SB
dans, “Rock Lives.”
■ Brown was released from a
feouth Carolina prison in 1991,
after serving three years for
weapons and assault convictions.
; Since then, he has released
three new singles and three
tdbums, which feature remakes of
his songs and tunes by other
artists.
The most recent album,
released in 1995 about a year
before the death of his third wife,
Adrienne, is “Live at the Apollo,”
much like the career-launching
recording he made in 1963 for
$5,000.
He lives just a few miles from
his wife’s gravesite in Augusta,
his management office, called the
New James Brown Enterprises, is
decorated flamboyantly in gold,
black and purple.
The office is home to his
(leorgia-Lina records, which dis
tributes his singles to a limited
number of radio stations in the
eastern United States.
He’s trying to secure a distribu
tion deal with Polygram, which
has issued popular collections of
his music for the past several
years.
“We’re just trying to get it into
the disc jockeys to let the people
hear,” said Mackzine White,
Brown’s executive director of pro
motions. “It’s hard for us to catch
on since his release” from prison.
Response has been good at black
gospel and adult contemporary
stations in Tfexas, North Carolina
and Alabama, where his new sin
gle “God Is Good,” has been out
for about two months.
“It sounds like it ought to go, but
gosh, there are so many people
out there trying to imitate James
Brown,” said Buelah Foxworth,
music director at WVOE-AM in
Chadboiun, N.C., where Brown’s
song gets about 10 requests a
week.
She said her station in a small
town near the North Carolina-
South Carolina border will play
Brown’s single another week.
At KCOH-AM in Houston,
Brown’s music has been part of
the lineup for more than 30 years.
“The old stuff speaks for itself. I
think hsteners are ready for
something new and not some
thing so much different than his
style,” said music director TVavis
Gardner. “"God Is Good’ will do
well for him but Fm not sure
that’s really” what his fans want.
“His music will never die,” said
Harry Weinger, director of catalog
development at Polygram who
produces the Brown compilations.
“The sound is so much of him per
sonally.”
The hits, the sheer volume of
songs and his style document his
heyday in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s,
White said. All that shows is that
he’s the best of the best. White
said.
“He’s led a very, very messy fife,
he’s made mistakes and he’s apol
ogized for them,” White said. “In
the next 50 years, people are
going to realize the depth of his
genius.”
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