In early September, a small resort metropolis nestled excessive within the Colorado Rockies was the middle of the cinema world as scores of film trade luminaries gathered for the fiftieth anniversary of the Telluride Movie Pageant. Meyer Sound was once more a key supporter of the pageant, returning this yr as a Signature Sponsor and Cinema Sound Associate. Meyer Sound cinema audio techniques carried the soundtracks at 4 of the pageant’s principal theaters, three of which had been areas briefly repurposed for the weekend’s festivities.
“The Telluride Movie Pageant vastly appreciates our long-term partnership with Meyer Sound,” says Pageant Director Julie Huntsinger, “as we proceed to develop their extraordinary audio techniques inside our pageant atmosphere to assist the inventive intentions of our world-class filmmakers.”
Lately, the Telluride Movie Pageant has garnered a status because the “gateway to the awards season,” with a powerful record of Oscar-winning movies making both their world or Western Hemisphere debut on this former mining city. Some movies unveiled in Telluride that promise to take prime honors on Oscar evening embody Rustin, Saltburn, All of Us Strangers, Poor Issues, The Holdovers, and Nyad. The significance of the pageant is underscored by the truth that all however two of the administrators for the movie premieres got here to Telluride for the screenings of their movies.
“We congratulate all people on the Telluride Movie Pageant on their half-century of success,” says Meyer Sound Govt Vice President Helen Meyer, “and we’ve got been thrilled to be a part of it for over 10 years. Telluride offers us a uncommon alternative to showcase our superior cinema sound applied sciences to the worldwide movie group.”
Three of the big momentary theaters, the Palm (650 seats), the Galaxy (500 seats), and the Werner Herzog Theater (650 seats) are outfitted with comparable Meyer Sound screens and LFE techniques. All three have Acheron cinema loudspeakers over Acheron LF low-frequency loudspeakers for the LCR channels, and all have X-800C cinema subwoofers — ten every on the Palm and Herzog, 9 on the Galaxy. The encompass techniques deploy HMS-10 encompass loudspeakers. The intimate (165 seats) Nugget, the one everlasting cinema, additionally has Acheron display loudspeakers, however with out LFE models, and solely 5 of the X‑800C cinema subwoofers. Surrounds are the extra petite HMS-5 fashions.
For the Q&A classes following lots of the showings, three theaters supply momentary Meyer Sound PA techniques with combos of UPQ-1P or UPJ-1P loudspeakers with companion 750-LFC low-frequency management components or Amie-Sub subwoofers. The Palm Theater — a remodeled highschool auditorium — has a everlasting Meyer Sound PA system with M1D line array loudspeakers and 700-HP subwoofers.
Meyer Sound techniques are completely put in in different showcase venues for the movie trade, together with the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, operated by the Director’s Guild of America, and the Rose Theatre of Jazz at Lincoln Middle, a most well-liked location for a lot of New York movie premieres. Additionally, Meyer Sound monitoring techniques are in use at main post-production studios across the globe, together with Skywalker Sound and the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studio Lot in California; Warner Bros. De Lane Lea in London; Rotor Movie in Potsdam, Germany; Semillero Estudios in Guadalajara, Mexico; Toei Studios in Kyoto, Japan; and Soundfirm in Melbourne, Australia.
“Meyer Sound is honored to as soon as once more be a trusted sound supplier for the Telluride Movie Pageant,” says Meyer Sound Program Supervisor, Cinema and Residential Jay Wyatt. “Meyer Sound monitoring techniques are more and more the selection of movie sound professionals when modifying and mixing film soundtracks, so it’s only becoming that their friends within the broader movie group — producers, administrators, and actors — hear the movies they’ve created with the identical sound high quality on the premiere showings.”
The lifelong dedication of Meyer Sound Co-founder, President, and CEO John Meyer to bettering cinema sound was acknowledged when he was awarded the 2022 Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal by SMPTE, the worldwide society for media professionals, technologists, and engineers. In accordance with SMPTE, the honour was bestowed “in recognition of his contributions to the design, measurement, and evaluation of cinema speaker electronics for cinema mixing, evaluate, and exhibition amenities.”
