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submitted 11 months ago by to c/autism@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 11 months ago (11 children)

I really feel like the audio mixes are not intended for regular stereo speakers anymore… I pull a lot of soundtracks out in audacity for the sake of making ringtones and I almost never see a clean center channel… logically this should be dialogue and maybe some extra effects when they would be overwhelming, like an explosion, etc. but that’s not what I see.

I’m reminded of comments regarding Tenet where Nolan said something like “… you mess with the picture and nobody cares, you mess with the audio and people loose their minds.”

Hummmmmm 🤔

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Don't worry. I've got a decent surround setup and I still can't hear shit. They just don't enunciate like the theatre trained actors of the past.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    turns up center speaker to +15dB manually dialogue is now at a reasonable volume

    What is this madness? The worst part is forgetting you did that.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, I did tweak mine as well tbh. Only by about 5 or so. Makes it a little better, but I do like to be able to see the words.

    I just wish we had adaptive brightness for the subs. Big white text is fine until you're watching a really dark movie and now all you can see is subs at the same brightness as the sun.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    And you are correct. It's also one of those mainly US things. In other languages it's far more balanced with voices.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting… not to be a jerk, but now I want to compare foreign language films with foreign language dubs.

    It would make sense that the dubs don’t really have an effects heavy mix simply because it would be more work.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    There's a lot of other issues, especially with newer content, but I have found that watching movies with headphones helps.

    Over the summer we use window AC units which are quite loud, so we finally decided to ignore our expensive speakers and I bought a cheap headphone amplifier with 4 independently controlled outputs, plus some Bluetooth adapters for when they are needed.

    The downside is that our ADHD friends like to be able to talk during movies and the setup makes that difficult. But other than that it's great.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It’s hard to beat a wire for realtime sound 🤓 I’ve been doing the same lately. It’s amazing how much a little bit of white noise makes.

    I saw a paper years ago that attributed the accelerated cognitive decline in old age to hearing loss. Really interesting and sad, and after trying to convince my dad to try a hearing aid… I can definitely see that being a factor.

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