[Frameworks] Optical soundtracts at Colorlab - all good?

[Jeff Kreines]

Colorlab is very serious about optical sound.  They have a modernized 16mm Westrex recorder with the latest electronics, and also a 35mm Westrex recorder that does stereo — including Dolby SR, and Digital Dolby (if you can pay the Dolby license fee).  

I’ve been there a few times, and am always impressed.

BTW, 16mm optical tracks are the AM-Radio of film sound.  They can sound great, but you have a limited dynamic range and on a good day (projector-dependent) you might get 75-6000Hz.

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta

> On Sep 23, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Buck Bito - Movette <buck at movettefilm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lyra,
> I have no experience with ColorLab's optical sound, but this page from
> Gibbs Chapman may have the parameters you're looking for:
> http://www.gibbschapman.com/non.opti.htm
> 
> -Buck Bito
> 
> Lawrence "Buck" Bito
> Movette Film Transfer
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> 
> On Fri, September 23, 2016 12:27 pm, Lyra Hill wrote:
>> Hello,
>> ...snip...
>> 
>> BONUS QUESTION: Do you know the frequency parameters for 16mm optical
>> sound? I had this information in a notebook that I sadly lost some time
>> ago. The internet is not immediately helpful in recovering this
>> information.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> - Lyra
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Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
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