The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
Whisper and Explosion 2 is even better. The whispers and explosions happen at the SAME TIME!
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Clearly you donāt appreciate the āØartāØ of realistic dynamic range.
This but unironically.
Do yāall go to the theater and complain that itās too loud?
What youāre saying is like, āYou complain about being sweaty??? So what, do you complain at the gym too?ā
Iām not in a theater. Iām at home. I donāt want the TV crazy loud for a number of reasons which can include the fact that Iām not a terrible neighbor, the time of day, my partner may be asleep, etc.
If I wanted to go to the theater, then I go to the theater where I have certain expectations which includes well-mixed, loud sound. Thatās fine, and I will hear both things that way.
If you donāt see the difference between home & theaterā¦
Yes actually.
Iāve taken to bringing earplugs.
I have before, yes.
No. But when Iām watching it at home, with dinner, the neighbor does sometimes. Itās almost like they should be mixed differently.
I donāt go to the theater at all.
Both me and my wife were both complaining about how loud the sound was last time we went to the movies (Dune part 2), so yes. I prefer immersion without shattered ear drums.
Just like how they absolutely love to have extremely dark environments then switch to blinding light.
A Christopher Nolan movie, I see.
Yeah, Nolan decided dialouge is important enough to include but not important enough to be able to hear. Pick a damn lane. Either let me hear it or donāt include it
I had this problem for so long until I got a really basic sound bar. Canāt believe how many years I put up with it.
That seems like the only solid solution. I got a budget 5.1 with rear satellites because not only did I want a dedicated center channel for dialog but I wanted to avoid the 5.1 to stereo downmixing issues (such as in Plex) where the center channel gets incorrectly divided with a volume decrease (jellyfin didnāt seem to have the issue), but this way I can just sidestep those issues by being able to directly play 5.1.
This has helped a ton but there are still some movies that donāt cooperate, like dune part 1 during the Paul and his mother breakfast scene at the beginning. Even though I have the truehd 7.1 atmos and DD 5.1 (which direct plays without conversion), the only way to make that scene audible without blowing out the speakers the rest of the movie is to crank up the voice boost EQ which ruins the balance.
My LG sound bar still fucks me over, maybe itās just too old? (2017)
You can also just enable Loudness Equalization in the audio properties in Windows.
Key word: compressor/limiter.
Thank god for Loudness Equalization.
Since I have found that, I changed it on every device I could. It is just so dumb how badly they mix the audio.
they mix audio for cinemas with 5.1 or 7.1 speaker systems. And then they take that version and smoosh it into stereo :) which then comes out sounding absolutely terrible because the mix was simply not made for stereo
Half the movies Ive seen in the last decade in cinemas still suffered from insanely bad audio balancing.
This problem goes beyond just lazy distribution.
I think the issue is with volume levelling; your statement implies the issue is channel separation. Listening in surround sound wonāt mitigate the issue, unless you intentionally boost the center speaker
I mean, cinemas are also built to blow your eardrums out. As someone with hearing loss I avoid them.
Ohhhh neat. Now you can point out to this guy, and myself where we can find this on our televisions.
Someone sharing a solution for one platform doesnāt obligate them to support every platform.
That said, this kind of functionality is sometimes called ānoise compressionā or āvolume normalizationā. Guitar compressor pedals do this. So look for those in your TV audio settings or audio system settings, but I wouldnāt hold my breath that it will be there on most TV models.
Also, sometimes it can be due to the way the sound is mixed to however many audio channels the media uses and then how your setup remixes them for how many audio channels you have available. Check your settings to see if the speaker setup matches what you have. Also make sure they are all properly plugged in and actually driving audio through them.
Do they have something like that for Linux?
github.com/wwmm/easyeffects for pipwire
piped.video/watch?v=typM_AQUzi4 for pulseaudio
Thatās the beauty of āØļøsubtitlesāØļø
I was watching fallout and was pleasantly surprised that there where multiple dialog boosted audio tracks (medium and high boost).
The most notorious example for me is Spanish cinema, itās like theyāre rapid-fire whispering, then suddenly they burst out screaming. No middle ground. And just what the hell are film sound editors and mixers in Spain smoking, to think that this is the proper way to mix a filmās audio?
I call this Dark Knight Syndrome.
I have the same problem with ads being louder too.Also weirdly music in the radio compared to the DJā¦
TL;DR quantifying volume is hard and ads can cheat.
For anyone wondering why it is like that: Iāve read that movies nowadays are the same on disc and streaming service as they are in the theaters, meaning the voices are sitting on the central speaker. Iāve hat this a long time too and after I read that fact I went and bought a soundbar with center speaker and that solved this issue for me.
Not even a new thing; I have no idea what the plot for Mission Impossible 1 was
Not sure hearing the dialog would help.
it do be like that with some of the audio mixing in games.
Sonic Adventure games come to mind as the most egregious examples of that.
āIāll make you eat those words!ā
Some tvs have volume leveling
It really shouldnāt be up to the TV do this.
It is if your not using a home theater setup
Oh, wow!Is it really you?
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