cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1657114/mr-lovenstein-volume

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  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 days ago

    This is so common and so irritating that it literally makes me not look forward to watching movies, particularly at home in a shared living space. I don’t even watch many movies anymore because it’s annoying watching with subtitles all the time.

    This is what getting old looks like people, take note.

    That thing that mildly annoys you right now? It won’t go away, it will get worse, then your intolerance of thing will lead to avoiding the thing. Next thing you know, someone is asking you “Did you see the new Sooperfoob and Jerry movie? it’s amazing! Best one of the franchise!” and you’re going to be like… 😶

    • Honytawk@feddit.nl
      1·
      8 days ago

      Or you could just enable something like Loudness Equalization on whatever device you are playing the content from.

      The getting old part is you not searching for a solution and just complaining.

    • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 days ago

      Older movies tended to have audio mixes where the dialogue was clear even when loud things were happening, people shouldn’t need to use a compressor.

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 days ago

    FYI this is one of the main differences between the Hollywood and German soundtracks.

    Here it’s mixed far better to listen in stereo while in surround cinematic you need to turn the front speaker up, if you have that system. And it doesn’t translate well to stereo.

    • Chais@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      8 days ago

      Wouldn’t that be a question of studio sound versus scene sound? The original sound is usually recorded with a boom mic, resulting in a wider dynamic range, whereas the German voiceover can be recorded in a studio, without interference and the speakers much closer to the mic.
      The alternative would be to give each actor a lapel mic which would then have to be edited out of the video and would also be infeasible in some situations.

  • SoloCritical@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 days ago

    And this is why I, a genius, watch my content with subtitles. So I can keep the volume at a perpetually low level whilst still understanding what is being said even when it isn’t in a language I speak.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 days ago

    I had such a situation years ago. I was listening to Mike Oldfields “Tubular Bells II” on headphones. For the first time. There is a sequence where the music stops, and a child is telling something. I turned up the volume to hear it, and got the last words “and nothing was ever heard of him again, except for the sound of tu-bu-lar bells”, and then came BANG the promised bell…

  • Honytawk@feddit.nl
    2·
    8 days ago

    By default I enable Loudness Equalization, which makes soft sounds louder and loud sounds softer.

    I don’t care about the dynamic range if you can’t understand what they are saying.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 days ago

        FYI, I am not the person you replied to.

        The part where the comm it’s from is trying to not be political is, apparently, political. Some people here seem to think that spending every waking moment inside a landscape of political doom is a necessary purity test.