When the meme is gender neutral. 🥹
I know it’s not an ideal solution, but subtitles really do make this a non issue.
Also good for heavy accents or just complex, lore heavy dialog
I have been watching with described audio subtitles because a lot of Tims they capture stuff that you’d never hear or pay attention to. Like an exiting character’s background conversation with another character which is barely audible will be written out.
Why don’t you just watch the film in 14-channel Dolby Atmos like the director intended? /s
This is why most video games are superior. You can turn the SFX down to 6/10 Turn the music down to 9/10 And leave the voices at 10/10
Except when you launch a new game the first time and THE MENU MUSIC IS REALLY LIUD SO YOU YELL TO YOUR FRIENDS HOLYFUCKBOISHANGONICANTHEARYOU
I remember people clowning on old launchers for games back in the day, but I do still really appreciate being able to set resolution, graphics settings, audio, etc before getting hit with a 320p, no antialiased, volume 1000% BWAAAAHHH for potentially a few minutes before I can ever get to an options menu. And even then sometimes the options menu won’t let you adjust graphics and resolution unless you’re on the title screen, and it usually requires a restart of the game.
Being able to adjust all of that before the game started in the first place or at least letting the game go straight to the title screen without intro cinematics or booting straight into the game on first launch is really nice.
Lmao this is me booting up Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth. It always has that 100 loudness BWAAAAAA in the main menu, then when you load the game your settings actually get loaded too
For the love of god go to your sound settings, and turn “dynamic range” to low.
Almost every TV has this option.
I did, it’s still awful
I haven’t watched anything on an actual tv in almost 6 years.
Your pc already can do this.
I love how everyone think your audio settings can do anything about this.
Unless you control the mixing, you get what you get. When Christopher Nolan wants mumbling followed by jet engines, you will suffer accordingly. I still have no idea what Tenent was about between the fucky time shifting and the godawful sound mixing, but I stopped caring half way through.
Of course your audio settings can fix it. They might get the wrong instructions, but your settings can change those to work for your setup.
Loudness Equalization makes loud noises softer and soft noises louder.
Fuck the audio sampling team. I get to decide how it works on my device.
Tenet was about this:
R O T A S
O P E R A
T E N E T
A R E P O
S A T O RThat is one of the very few movies with English audio that I had to enable English subtitles in.
I have no clue why they wanted nobody to hear the characters in that movie. Why did they even bother giving them voice lines?
I mean yeah, if a movie’s audio is already bad in the theatre, you’re most likely not gonna fix it at home lol.
But for properly mixed movies they’re absolutely right. A 5.1/7.1 mix over stereo speakers will sound exactly as described.
No no no, we can still hear the actors whisper. Increase backbround rumble. Also there’s too much light. You can almost see the actor’s face. Make it darker!
Check that the audio format of whatever you’re watching matches the output of your listening device. If you watch a movie using 5.1, but your TV is stereo, then yes all of the loud shit is going to be very loud and crowd out the dialog. This might not be the silver bullet for everyone, but it costs you nothing to check your settings.
Some movies are actually just mixed super poorly, though.
What would be the solution if the movie is using 5.1 and my TV only has stereo? What would be the correct setting?
Stereo
Use stereo for the movie. Some apps, like Netflix (iirc) has a setting for that.
Good luck finding a BluRay that doesn’t just have a 7.1 mix, but also Stereo.
Yeah, I think all of my totally legitimate blu-ray movie rips only have 5.1 or 7.1, I’ve never seen stereo outside of TV series.
I think one of the Pixar or Dreamworks BDs I’d rented recently had a 2.0 mix and I was amazed. My 90’s HiFi speakers are amazing for stereo and it’s a shame that I cannot make good use of them for watching movies.
Only works if the original media has multiple mixes. Some stuff made for the small screen does, but very few films go through the process of doing separate audio mixes.
Some TVs have a virtualization option that can help.
Just because your TV can decode a better signal than it can playback, that doesn’t mean that will give you the best user experience.
And that doesn’t take I to account Hollywood laziness with not actually making a proper stereo mic and instead just using the original theater mix that assumes you have a 15,000 watt 20 speaker system.
This is why I love having a 5.1 setup now. I just crank the center channel up and all is solved.
Audio engineers during the black and white talkies had so much more skill than modern ones.
Back when the audio guy was the pianist playing ragtime next to the projection screen.
Isn’t there a thing where the player itself knows when the audio will go very high and thus reduce the amplitude? Maybe something called Stable Sound.
Or best is if we can seperate background noise, dialogues and other sounds and the engine work with that, idk.
Loudness Equalization in Windows
VLC has a Volume Normalization setting which everyone should turn on. Helps dramatically with the plethora of badly mixed movies.
That’s why subtitles are great
There needs to be a way to get subtitles in a movie theater. I can’t go to movies anymore because my hearing sucks and I need subtitles.
Sounds like a perfect use case for polarized glasses
Or the music drowns everything out. I want toggles like on my games. Music down to 10% or less, well, probably 50% for movies since it’s not typically repeat loops there, and then slide the sound effects and atmosphere vs voices where I like. Surely this tech can exist for movies and TV.
Have you tried plugging it in and then plugging it in again? My cat is a literal fat ass and will eat anything.
have you tried surround sound?
Voices should be audible in stereo, the most common setup. They are free to add 5.1 and 7.1 as well, but 2.0 and 2.1 need to work.
