Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 21 hours ago
Thank the asshole directors for choosing to make sound so crappy any more (my opinion, I think all movies have crap mixing, with too much focus on sound effects so even when voice is brought forward it’s still hard to hear clearly).
Part of it is the movie audio is mixed for a theater that has multiple channels and speakers, so the output is the better separated and voice can be delivered better. It would need to be remixed to sound better at home, and since all homes are very different, what would you target? (Plus they simply don’t want to pay extra for mixing which doesn’t contribute to seats in a theater). Yea, they could probably use a generic mix, but again, it costs to do so, and some home users would still (justifiably) complain.
The other is some directors intentionally crapify the mix because they want a certain experience while watching the movie in the theater. One director recently even stated he wanted dialog to be difficult to understand in certain scenes (I forget what movie). I get the director’s intent, even if I disagree.
I have a 5.1 system. With a decent receiver . Even by controlling dynamic sound it’s still unbearable at times.
In the movie I’m watching in one scene the speaking is soft so I turn up the volume, in the next scene the singing is LOUD AS HELL. I don’t get what the point is.
But thank you for taking the time to respond.
Yea, crappy mixing. It may technically be “excellent” mixing, but only works in a theater.
Even that isn’t true, pretty much every movie I’ve seen at the theater in recent years, the dialog is hard to hear.
I turned up my center channel like 5db, (mostly) solved the issue for me
Yeah another commenter suggested the same. It helped quite a bit
Stop using the dynamic sound. That should help.
Not sure how you got two down votes for that
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It was Christopher Nolan with Tenet.
Yes, I’m still salty about it, and no, I won’t watch another of his movies in the cinema.