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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It is and they used to.

There's something called dynamic range, which is essentially the difference between the loudest and quietest sounds. With a low dynamic range explosions and whispers are just as loud as each other.

There has been a recent trend for filmmakers to want a high dynamic range. This makes explosions, car crashes, and gunshots feel extra impactful. The problem is that that means other things become more quiet by comparison. Those "other things" include dialogue.

This leads to people not in a movie theatre or with a home audio setup that costs more than my car not being able to hear a goddamned word.

I fucking hate modern movies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. They really need to start including both low dynamic range AND high dynamic range audio options in home/streaming releases of movies, and TV should exclusively be LDR if they can't simulcast the the different audio signals.

HDR audio sounds amazing and is totally worth it when you have the right audio equipment, so it shouldn't stop existing entirely, but it's bullshit that people that don't have that equipment get an even worse experience than LDR as a result.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They already give you the option of choosing between stereo or 5.1, I don't see why a low dynamic audio mix would be any different on the technical side.
Then again, a new mix would cost more money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Generic MCU Movie #4195643

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How recent is that trend ? Because I definitely agree that modern movies' mixing usually sucks ass for a non-theater setup, but I recently watched some 70's James bond movie and it was actually much worse than what I'm used to. Like, if I setup the TV volume so the gunshots/explosion and the musics didn't blow up my eardrums, dialogues were basically unintelligible 80% of the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know Christopher Nolan is the worst for it, for a few reasons, apparently the IMAX cameras cause it, too. So, however long they've been around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not only the eight audio equipment, I want to be able to watch something and not wake up the neighbors up/downstairs!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I learned something today! yaaaay!