At least up till a couple years ago (last time I checked), DTS used a "propritary" bass EQ curve on their dubbers for playing back 35mm magnetic film soundtracks that they encoded (this EQ is the same thing in principle to the RIAA EQ curve for playing back LPs). This EQ just happened to boost the bass above what was flat. Funny how that works........

Now that most soundtracks are mixed to 24 bit digital, the soundtrack exists as computer files: who knows what they do with them when they encode in-house! Sometimes they have used the "safety" 35 mm magnetic master to encode - using this, aside from the EQ issue, they potentially get the benefit of a layer of analog tape sound.


[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited May 22, 2003).]