FYI for those that want to learn something today. The “THX sound” is called “Deep Note”, and it looks insane when written.
Aphex Twin hearing it for the first time was probably all like “Where’s my audiovisualiser?”
Can you hear this?
Only the first time. Lost hearing after that
THE AUDIENCE IS NOW DEAF
Stay Tuned (1992)
My favorite gag from that:
“Where have you been??”
RIP John Ritter.
I have my home theater programmed to play an a capella version of the thx sound at startup. By default that’s what I now think about when I see this.
As a kid, I thought this was meant to test your sound system for the movie (aka lone CRT) and would blast it as loud as I could.
Wait, it’s not for testing?
It’s a marketing gimmick to make you want to go to theaters with proper sound.
TBF pre-THX many theaters had absolute shit sound, they threw a few speakers near the screen and called it a day.
Brown note
Dammit who shit my pants?
Why would a teacher tell you that?
My biggest issue with this format, it has to make up an opinion no one has in order to refute it.
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primates are now listening
One of my favorite songs is The Stage, by Avenged Sevenfold, and I honestly think the THX sound has a large port of it. First 30 seconds are basically just a solid THX sound… huge nostalgia hit hight out the gate. The rest of the song is fucking epic on its own, but that first bite is just… chef’s kiss
The imagery in that music video is really thought provoking. Very fucking cool song. Thank you for sharing that link.
It didn’t become one of my favorites until after I saw the vid. I’d heard it prior to that, and took the stage thing literally - like, okay, you’re performing on a stage… that’s what you do…? Then I watched the video and “Oh. Oooooooh. Oh shit!” It’s a metaphor, and they pull ZERO punches. Extremely critical of humanity, but without being whiny or doomy (well… in a ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ kinda way: it doesn’t feel doomy but the actual message… yeah…). And they pulled it off with fucking marionette puppets somehow without making it feel silly. HOW?!
So damn good!
009 Sound System >>>>> THX Sound System
