I think the US passed some sort of standard, under Obama, to normalize the volume for commercials on broadcast TV.

That worked for a while, but now that everything is streaming, they're fucking doing it again. Because of course they are.

French dubs have intentionally higher speech volume

Do what you want with that info

Except I have Dolby 5.1 set-up and it’s still dogshit

Yep. I think this is the real problem right here. Whenever I’m producing my first pass at a music project, I do it on my laptop speakers or similar. That way I know the core idea of the track still works on basic speakers. I’ve tried going the other way and all that comes through is a melody if I’m lucky.

I also check in the car and on a crappy BT speaker after. The fact that they’re producing entire movies and shows without ever seeming to do a consumer audio check is just annoying.

There are lots of controls in the world I’ve noticed over the years that are mapped linearly when they should be mapped logarithmically. But that’s harder to program, so almost no one does.

If you have a true 5.1 setup then increase the centre speaker levels relative to the others. Or get a much bigger centre speaker.

Most centre speakers are woefully small compared to the left and right fronts being towers.

If you don't have a 649.2.2 Atmos setup, that's your fault. Get hearing loss, scrub!

/s because... sigh...

And now they wonder why people use adblockers whenever they can

Can someone tell me why I'm an idiot: streaming services have access to the entire video you're about to watch. They know the max and the min volume of that video. Why is there no setting to shrink that range? Is it going to degrade the audio really bad and they don't want to be blamed?

This goes double for home theater software like Jellyfin, Kodi, and Plex. They have 10,000 customizations and settings, so why can't I define my own custom audio range in them?

Yeah, my test checklist after mixing/mastering using my studio headphones is:

• Laptop speakers
• Apple wired earbuds
• Cheap bluetooth headphones
• TV soundbar
• Car speakers

It’s only final until it sounds good on all the above.

Nah, Christopher Nolan says it’s our fault that we don’t have IMAX theater setups at home.

Mr. Lovenstein version

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I want an automute for ads.whatever they are selling they can shove up their loud ass.

There also the fact that speakers on modern tvs suck because they want only a little black frame around the screen. CRTV speakers pointed at the viewer and modern tvs point downward or behind the screen, so everything is a bit muffled. It's like they forgot that audio is a big aspect of watching shows and movies or they are wanting to make a ton of money off a separate speaker system.

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Very good point. Didn't even think about that. At home we use a soundbar because of that.

Lol yeah. Surprised no one made that yet.

Even if you can hear them, you'll still need captions because actors today mumble so much.

Technically speaking it's very easy to implement, it's just a compressor, oldest thing in audio after maybe the EQ.

VLC has a compressor under effects, if you're using Linux you can add effects to pulse or pipewire really easy too.