Christopher Nolan
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
The problem is that he masters his audio to top of the line theaters, so it sounds muddy on anything other than that. Very snobby.
I’ve read his sound mix is shit on top of the line IMAX too. Plenty of complaints since the days of The Dark Knight, He is just high on his own supply and can’t admit that he is shit at sound mixing dialogue. That or some contractor lied to him when they built whatever he mixes on.
He specifically declines to have it mixed well on stereo because he doesn’t think we should be watching his movies with anything but the most expensive speakers
Sounds great if you’re watching on Wandows with Loudness Equalization!
I hate Nolan. As long as he hates me for having normal speakers, I’m gonna hate him for being an elitist prick
Every damn time! As someone who is not a video editor or sound engineer, isn’t it pretty easy to equalize all the sound?
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.
But the ✨art✨!
Generic MCU Movie #4195643
I learned something today! yaaaay!
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
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
On Windows, right click the sound icon, go into sound options, playback, double click on your default playback device, and go to the Enhancements tab.
LOUDNESS EQUALIZATION
is fucking awesome and more people should be aware of it. It’s baked into Windows 10!
Does that work if using VLC?
Edit - For W10, right click the sound icon and choose Open Sound Settings
Under Choose Your Output Device, click Device Properties
On the right side of the screen, click Additional Device Properties
You’ll find the enhancements tab there
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Indeed! Like the other poster says, it’s ALL THE SOUNDS.
Turn it off for games and music*, but I turn it on for EVERYTHING else. It makes things bearable to watch! IT’S MAGIC
This should be illegal. I’m so tired of having to turn the TV up to hear the dialogue and then all the sudden the loudest noise you ever heard in your life. Then you turn it down … But here’s the next dialogue where you have to turn it back up again.
It really ruins the experience for me personally
Ok it can’t just be me. It feels like at a certain point sound levels got messed up. When I watch older stuff it’s fine the new stuff I feel like I am skipping backwards to catch what they said.
This has driven me crazy for a long time too. It really feels like this picture and takes something away from any enjoyment.
It isn’t just you. Vox has a good video on it.
What an obnoxious conclusion they have - we need to buy better speakers. I have good speakers. Old things sound great, but new shows sound like crap. This is their problem to fix, not ours.
I completely agree, it’s ridiculous. There are settings on both my TV and streaming devices to try to combat this “problem”.
This is why I turn on the audio normalization on my TV. It makes the explosions sound super weird but it’s impossible to watch movies with kids sleeping otherwise. The mixing is so bad.
The mixing isn’t for your home. Which it obviously should be.
Watching TV is also shit. When an ad break comes, I have to mute the sound or turn down the volume, regardless of normalization. That should be illegal in my opinion but it’s the status quo.
I already fucking struggle with understanding English since it’s my second language, and with this new shit sound, it’s now fucking worse. I used to be able to do without subtitles most of the time, but now I can’t watch shit without it.
I personally like high dynamic range. Most receivers, and I’m guessing most smart TVs, have some form of dynamic range compression if you don’t. Bad quality, “realistic” voice recordings are a different issue. Having a center channel speaker also helps a lot.
Center channel speaker FTW
There are ways around that, for example I watch my Plex server on an Apple TV and there is an option that will reduce loud sounds so I can hear dialogue without being blasted away at other parts
Someone in my family calls this “whispering explosions” which I’m pretty sure comes from something, not sure what
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me trying to hear dialogue in Half-Life mods with shit audio mixing, while guns are super loud.
Oh god yeah. Some early video games are fucking horrendous for this. Thank GOD that it’s almost essentially now to have sliders for individual tracks. Always end up lowering the music to 75, the sound effects to 85-90 and the dialogue stays at 100.
Yeah I have ‘em on by default now
shibas are crazy tho
Buy a sound system.
