It is why I enable “Loudness Equalization” on every audio device in Windows.
It makes soft sounds louder and loud sounds softer.
Can’t stand it otherwise either.
You can get an audio compressor extension on most browsers too. It functions by reducing volume above a threshold and increasing overall output to compensate.
On the flip side, if a poor audio mixer overly does this to make their track sound louder, services such as YouTube penalize the volume of the entire audio track.
Human ears are more sensitive to certain sounds, so boosting certain frequencies can make something sound louder without necessarily increasing the overall amplitude of the sound waves (air pressure).
Spacing a tired-ass joke over several shittily drawn panels does not magically make it funny again
But it’s funny because it’s true.
Been there the hard way. I got Tubular Bells II, and listened to it via headphones (I had no speakers).
There is one passage where the music ends, and a child speaks. It was hard to understand, so I turned the volume to 11, and heard the end of the sentence like “and nothing was ever heard of him again but the sound of tu-bu-lar bells.” The next sound was the BANG of the tubular bells, making my eardrums meet somewhere in the middle. somewhere…
As someone who played EVE a lot back in the day, all I can hear is “get that interdictor!”
Watching a Christopher Nolan movie I see.
Or films from Spain. They whisper in a mumbled accent, then all of a sudden they start SCREAMING at each other.
¿que?
¡Mis oídos están muertos!
This is why I’ve cancelled all movie subscriptions.
I blame Dolby 5.1… switch to Dolby 2.1… people encoding online video should do this before ripping video or us and audio leveler on the resulting files and save everyone else the hassle.
Or just get a 5.1 setup. Speakers are cheaper than ever.
Edit: Well. They were. Before an orange man decided to destroy the economy.
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Hey totally fair, whatever works. I built out the surround system because, after experiencing someone’s home theater when I was a kid, I’d always wanted to. 😁
Exactly why I use subtitles.
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This could be because your TV sucks, or at least the audio, a lot of companies push for big Bass like would be in an explosion because it sells TVs which would be fine if they didn’t skimp on the highs and mids making speech suck.
Lol, no, it’s not because your TV sucks, but because almost none of us are watching on a 5.1 or higher channel system and the audio mix was never changed from their cinema release
Anything I watch in my TV that sounds awful sounds just fine out of my 5.1 PC because I suddenly have access to more channels where the audio is actually out (dialogue looooves to get mixed to center only for some reason)
I’m pretty sure a lot of it is simply because that sort of mixing style is pretty fashionable at the moment. If you mix movies like they were mixed in the 90s and 2000’s (i.e. very clear and distinct dialog) then they don’t ‘sound’ modern.
Even in cinemas the mix is awful and almost inaudible half the time. Extreme example but I saw Tenet at the cinema and had to guess at half of the dialog because Christopher Nolan is especially and increasingly fond of this.
It’s not like the audio mix isn’t shit in theatres anyways.
This may be for some cases. But I’ve also had the exact same experience in the theater except I can’t change the volume. All the fun of not understanding mixed with the thrill of losing your hearing.
Alot of it is… pretentiousness?
Like, there’s a lot of high-brow thinking in the movie industry where stuff is mixed for movie theaters. You know, theaters that have good surround speaker setups, but also turn the volume way too loud. It’s “as its meant to be experienced” if you ask the Hollywood producers. I think Netflix and more small-screen oriented producers are better about this, where even surround mixes are much more reasonable.
I’ve made similar experiences in movie theatres. And streaming services continuously disappoint on that front too.
The solution is obviously to learn german. Then you can watch with our excellent and easily intelligible dubs.
But you better enjoy our voice actors, we have about 3!
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Just run the audio through a dynamic range compressor. Then everything will be just as loud as the commercials.
Subtitles!
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