Dialogue is too quiet

>dialogue is too quiet
>explosions are too loud
>music is too LOUD
How to fix?

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stop getting camrips

probably get those big filesize rips that have more sound inside them

go with simple full hd 2 to 3 gb rips those are usually fine

unless you're an autist and want 10gb 4k then enjoy your earblasted sound

Stop playing movies on a shitty setup and stop downloading YIFY rips

A:10 V:10
thx yify

-Download files with better quality audio
-listen on good headphones
-get higher quality audio setup

Thanks YIFY! A:10 V:10

yifi usually has good sound though

its those 5+ gb movies that have loud sound

>all the movies he watches feature explosions

This is only true for my speakers. Headphones are just fine.

Stop watching Nolan movies.

The movies you download have a wide "dynamic range". If the range is too wide for you then Google how to adjust that range for the media player you are using. I use mpv. Some of the movies I download have very soft dialog and loud explosions/gunfire. I fix that by adjusting an audio filter setting (dynamic range compression).

So yeah, you need to look up how to suppress the DR in your media player.

Put subtitles on.

this

English sound with English subtitle best way to go

(im not English but fuck other languages with different context use)

>Everyone talking about downloads
>I have this problem with DVDs

fire the fuckers who do mixing

>yifi usually has good sound though
kys

IF it is a thx yify, get AC3filter and control the mixing yourself. You can actually pinpoint the offending "center left channel" ear rape and dial it bavk
back.

who here /watches absolutely all kino with audio normalisation enabled to avoid this bullshit/ here

The "issue" is the dynamic range. It doesn't matter if the source is a VHS, DVD, or downloaded video. I put issue in quotes because having a wide dynamic range is usually a good thing. But it can suck if you have crap hardware (like I do) or you are trying to watch the movie at a low volume.

>changing the original sound in any way

pleb

I wish I could apply night mode on my AVR to not just AC3 soundtracks.

>dial it bavk
>back.
Wtf is this? Sometimes I feel like I am at the fucking zoo here.

A typo of back Tarzan.

me too, with all these black panther threads

It's not dynamic range you fuck, it's the compression of 5.1 channels down to 2 channels.

If you have a shitty audio set up with just stereo, it has to provide you with all the audio data that would normally be played through all the channels into just two speakers.

This makes everything much louder than dialogue, because dialogue is generally only played through the center channel.

Yeah. Br2049 was fine on my headphones on my PC but when I watched it on the living room tv with my dad the sound was earrape. The source was the amazon video version. Does that mean our living room speakers are wank?

...

>it's the compression of 5.1 channels down to 2 channels.
>set up with just stereo
This will not help if the DR it too wide. And doesn't help with most of the videos I DL because they are almost always stereo.

>you fuck
O-ok

Huh, it's almost like explosions and gunshots are represented as extremely loud like they should be while quiet whispering dialogue is not loud like it should be, wow what a revelation.
Try not living in a cardboard box as a home where you can't even put up the volume of a film on a decent level.

I don't understand this autism, why do you think the volume of everything what is happening in the film should be the same?
Do you really think a bomb going off should be of the same volume as a pin drop?

You could use a compressor (VLC has one) but you need to know what you're doing or you might ruin the audio

>might
There is no "might", you will ruin the audio

Take 4 year audio engineering course

But people really whisper in movies. You can notice this even in theaters, any show or tv movie has louder dialogue than a theatrical movie

Because it's a movie, not real life

>But people really whisper in movies
Yes.
>You can notice this even in theaters
Are you saying you can't notice it at home? What?
>any show or tv movie has louder dialogue than a theatrical movie
Because they are literally made for shitty TV playback on shitty stereo TV integrated speakers, while films are mixed in 5.1. surround sound and intended to be played with a setup like that.

Are you saying a movie should not represent real life? A WW2 movie should have the same volume of people screaming for their lives and someone for example flicking a matchstick?

Be honest, you just live in a shitty non isolated apartment/or with parents so you can't put the volume even close to it's intended level because of your neighbours/parents. I suggest you stop living as a manchild.

Turn up the center channel and apply some dynamic range compression (ideally with a brief look-ahead).

Equalizer.

no

>Are you saying you can't notice it at home? What?
I meant that even in theaters they talk too quiet, and the explosions and gunshots are too loud, to the point where I barely understand what they are saying in theater and cannot hear them at home. And before you talk about how "gunshots are really loud irl" no, they aren't THAT loud. Hollywood don't understand explosions and firearms at any level. Besides, you don't have this problems with foreign movies, just american ones.
>Because they are literally made for shitty TV playback on shitty stereo TV
No, it's not just the volume. It's the way they talk. If you watch the same actor in movies and TV series, you can see the differnce. They whisper in theatrical movies, literally. I don't know why is like this, since they dubbed most of dialogues in post-production.

>Are you saying a movie should not represent real life? A WW2 movie should have the same volume of people screaming for their lives and someone for example flicking a matchstick?
Yes, because I plan to watch more than one movie in my lifetime. I don't want realistic hearing damage from explosions and gunshots. It's similar to how I don't want realistic HDR images in welding scenes.

Based yifychad

>I meant that even in theaters they talk too quiet
Stop going to shitty third world tier theaters.
>And before you talk about how "gunshots are really loud irl" no, they aren't THAT loud.
You are immensely dumb. You are aware that you can get lifelong tinnitus or go deaf altogether from a single indoor gunshot? I presume you have seen more than a couple of WW2 with far more things than just gunshots going on and you didn't get tinnitus or anything remotely similar like that. What a braindead statement.
>They whisper in theatrical movies, literally. I don't know why is like this,
I don't have a wojak retarded enough for this reply. Are you now questioning why does a film have characters whispering? Whispering should never occur in a film?

The absolute fucking state of Sup Forums

>I don't want realistic hearing damage from explosions and gunshots.
It's far from "realistic", if you would experience an explosion going off near you would get permanent hearing damage/go deaf while in films they are just louder than the rest.
The playback is realistic in the sense of the difference in dynamics between a character scratching his head and a superweapon blowing stuff up. It's ridiculous to expect those two to be on the same volume level.

It's called dynamic range and it's a good thing. Just apply a limiter if you want to hear everything at low levels.

Exactly. Explosions are far louder and shorter, is just one big BOOM. Gunshots are totally differnte, they sound like two pieces of dry wood hitting each other really fast. But, even than, it's a fucking movie. You don't need to destroy people's ears and sacrifice you dialogue over a boom. As being said in this board for a long time, americans don't know to edit a movie, and that's is truth for sound too.

Your eardrums are too tight. Poke them with a qtip to loosen them up

I guess you have never watched a UK BBC drama. Doctow Who is also an example of terrible sound editing. Smothered in music and effects and mumbling actors you can barely understand (especially if non-white).

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lazy man fixing: enable loudness equalizer through windows sound -> speakers -> enhancements
turn off when done

I never watched Doctor Who but seems like modern UK shows are adopting american standarts, I remember some recent shows that had the same pacing and issues from american shows. Anything before 2000 is far better.

Stop thanking YIFY and download an actual release.

>windows sound
If you have to use it use DRC in MPC audio filter. This will only work on AC3 though not DTS or Atmos. Best bet is to just push the center channel on your AVR a bit.

You really have no clue what you're talking about. You clearly have literally zero knowledge about sound mixing and sound editing.
The implication that european films have better sound mixing is retarded, there is good or bad sound mixing and that's it. What you want the film to sound like is literally bad sound mixing.

>You don't need to destroy people's ears and sacrifice you dialogue over a boom.
Again, you are more than likely watching films on a stereo setup which downmixes the 5.1 source file to your two shitty speakers and then you complain how it doesn't sound good, ofcourse it doesn't sound good when your setup is shitty or non existant

It's really a case of wanting to turn the dialogue up without being blown out of your seat everytime something noisy happens. The intention of most movie sound mixes these days is to be played at a rreasonably loud volume level as per the cinema. But when you are at home and you live next to someone or your spouse has gone to bed (or generally hates loud noises) that's difficult to do. It's a circumstantial problem not a fault of the sound editor.

Yes, you are right about the quality of the speakers, but we are taking about another thing here. It's not the quality of the speakers, but they way they talk, and how they portray explosions and gunshots.

>It's not the quality of the speakers, but they way they talk
What is the problem with people talking in films?
>and how they portray explosions and gunshots.
Louder than people talking, yes.

It's another reason richfahs have purpose built rooms for this. You can control the acoustincs and have properly placed speakers and good equiptment. Your general living room with speakers thrown when you can put them depending on shape and furnishings leaves you with little room for such things. The mics that come with AVR's try to resolve this but it's imperfect.

>richfags
>where you can throw them

>watching explosion flicks

stop blaming audio outputs and codecs, we all know this fad with whisper voicing and deafening explosions is the cancer of movies

So you are telling me the whole Bluray/DVD market is aimed to rich people that can afford an home theater and everyone else must use subtitles. And that don't explain why most, actually all theater had the same problem with whispers and gunshots too loud.

You are saying that studios make blockbuster movies that will work properly in 1% of the theaters and homes of the world. Now I understand why they make less mone each year and how that's a good thing.

They really don't give a shit about you with your lofi setup.

Blame the audio encoding. It's trying to push a 5.1 track through a stereo set up. Dialog comes through the middle channel .

>How to fix
You dont, its the way movies are mixed.
Like in real life, when I speak its not at the same volume as gunfire or explosions. They replicate this in the audio mix. Gunfire, explosions and music should be louder than dialogue or the sound lacks dynamic range.
I once watched a version of Leon where someone had messed with the dynamic range, matching all audio to the same level. Whenever there was a gunfight everything sounded weak. Raising the volume didn't help because that raised the dialogue as well and it sounded as if everyone was screaming. Awful.
Get better ears. Or just stopp watching movies altogether.

>Bad writing, bad acting, bad cgi, shit agendas, high prices, shit service
At this point the sound mixing is just nothing.

Call me stupid but I've genuinely thought for the past 10 or so years the problem in the OP was due to the way movies sound is mixed. So basically I thought they would alter the entire audio of the film to give it that 'cinema wow experience' type of deal.

I dunno if it's worth noting either, but I found it was mostly on pretty shit movies and it's not something exclusive to my hardware as I've experienced at friends houses too, for example.

This is also a large factor. The sound editing in some movies really is just shit. There is also the problem these days of 'mumblecore' films where the actors try to deliver each line with as little energy as possible. I get the postmodern effect that they want but it just makes it really fucking hard to actually hear what they are saying unless you want you ear drums blasted out 10 minutes later when the scene of a bulldozer comes on

I don't know, I experienced this problem with a lot of movies from different sources and different hardware. The only common trait is that they are all american movies from big studios after 2000. Small movies don't have this problem, at least not in the same way.

And this is not the first post about it, I saw a good number of them in the past few years, asking things like "why do people always whisper/mumble in movies?". I don't think is just a hardware problem, maybe is a creative choice since the sound in theaters are very loud that don't translate well to TVs.

someone on Sup Forums told me they use calf (compressor iirc) for that
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