Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Adds 3 Meyer Sound EXP Systems

Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope film studios, located in California's Napa Valley, has installed Meyer Sound EXP? cinema sound systems in 3 new rooms, which includes an ADR stage beats pro, ADR manage space, and a screening room. Constant EXP monitoring will permit seamless translation between the new rooms and Zoetrope's existing re-recording stage dr dre headphones, which in 2009 became the first facility of its kind to install a total EXP system.

Coppola, working alongside re-recording mixers Walter Murch and Pete Horner beats by dre studio, relied on Zoetrope's original EXP monitoring method for the final mix of his 2009 release, "Tetro." Reflecting on the experience monster beats, Coppola says, "With Meyer Sound monster headphones, there has been a tremendous improve in power, yet with distortion eliminated. If the sound were a picture, you would immediately notice how incredibly focused it is, with no blurring."

Zoetrope's intimate new screening space, dubbed the Center Theater, has been equipped with Acheron Designer screen channel loudspeakers, X-800C cinema subwoofers, and HMS-10 cinema surround loudspeakers. The ADR studio has received an EXP method comprising UPJ-1P VariO loudspeakers inside a five.1 screen/surround configuration with an X-800C cinema subwoofer. The ADR control room installation has an identical UPJ-1P configuration, with a 500-HP subwoofer scaled to the smaller sized room volume. All three rooms utilize Meyer Sound's Galileo loudspeaker management systems with Galileo 616 processors for loudspeaker system control and optimization.

The programmability afforded by Galileo facilitates flexible and innovative repurposing of studio resources, something which has been a tradition at American Zoetrope because Walter Murch's pioneering function on "Apocalypse Now." For instance, Zoetrope's Avid ICON console can be moved from the ADR control space to the ADR stage, quickly converting it to a pre-mix suite.

American Zoetrope's Rutherford studio is primarily a private facility for use on film projects by Coppola, his family, and close associates. An additional frequent user is director Sofia Coppola, Francis's daughter, who used the facility for the final mixing of "Somewhere"(2010) with noted re-recording mixer Richard Beggs.

Meyer Sound's EXP defines an integrated approach to cinema sound by maintaining the highest performance levels at all stages of the procedure, from sound design studios via the dubbing stage and finally to exhibition. Built for sonic linearity, EXP systems empower sound designers and mixers to create soundtracks with higher nuance and precision, and also allow cinema operators to reproduce soundtracks at each seat with absolute fidelity.