Mr. Steckling will describe the redesign of the Stag Theater at Lucas Film’s Skywalker Ranch, a task that involved many audio disciplines. The acoustics were re-evaluated, and the sound system was designed and manufactured in-house with a cinema processor built using open architecture digital devices. In the course of its redesign several aspects of cinema post product speaker system design were brought to test. Should a postproduction sound system articulate with the emulation of existing downstream systems, or should a design strive for higher fidelity? Or is it possible to have both?

Jerry Steckling likes to say that he signed up for life in the audio industry. He has a decade of concert sound experience. He began music recording and studio ownership in the 70s and designed recording rooms for another decade. He now works for Lucas Films in the Skywalker division as the chief acoustician. He holds patents pending for distortion reduction devises in horn throats. His duties are the design of postproduction rooms, processing and speaker systems

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From Peninsula/S.F. Airport/Silicon Valley (Hwy. 101 North) Take Vermont Street Exit. Make immediate left onto Vermont Street. Go 5 blocks and turn left onto Alameda Street. Three blocks up is Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Bay Bridge (Hwy. 80 West) Take 9th Street/Civic Center exit. Go to the south onto Harrison Street. Follow Harrison to 10th Street. Turn left onto 10th Street and proceed under freeway overpass onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Golden Gate Bridge (Hwy. 101 South) Cross Golden Gate Bridge, take the Lombard Street (Hwy. 101) Exit. Follow Hwy. 101 signs up Lombard to Van Ness Avenue. Turn right. Proceed on Van Ness to Fell Street and turn left. Proceed on Fell until it crosses Market Street and becomes 10th Street. Continue on 10th under freeway overpass and bear right onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

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100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
415-558-0200