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Posted by def456 on 04/24/07 17:58
"dgates" <dgates@somedomain.com> wrote in message
news:8jvq2395d5aoi9sbq1upnhvt9hojubdohe@4ax.com...
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> There might be two points below that are related, so I'll delete most
> of the 138 lines and leave a couple paragraphs.
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> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:10:13 -0500, "def456" <def456@none.none> wrote:
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>>The player...
>>has a setting called DRC (Dynamic Range Control) which can be turned
>>ON or OFF, to compress the range of sound volume. The default is OFF, but
>>they don't explain what this does. I don't understand.
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>>I am plagued recently by what I call "Mumble Movies". The actors can't
>>speak
>>with
>>projection from their diaphrams. They sound like they're just mumbling,
>>like
>>James Dean, and/or intentionally talking in whispers. This seems to happen
>>more and more with current movies.
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> It is possible that these two items are related.
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> Turning on "Dynamic Range Control" (are you sure it's not "Dynamic
> Range Compression?") might help you if you find dialogue hard to hear.
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> I find that current movies tend to have music and sound effects that
> are MUCH louder than the dialogue. The movies will have a wide
> "range" of audio levels from very quiet to very loud.
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> When I set the volume so that the loud blasts of music and sound
> aren't too loud, then suddenly I can barely hear the dialogue. And if
> I turn up the volume for the quieter dialogue, then the other sounds
> are too loud.
You explained it better than me. That's part of the problem. Movies nowadays
tend to range from very loud to very quiet and there is no universal volume
setting that works throughout. It's necessary to turn the volume up and down
during the movie, very inconvenient and some of the speech is lost or
misunderstood. For that reason I sometimes turn on the English subtitles at
the bottom of the screen so I can figure out what they're saying.
> Dynamic Range Compression "squeezes" the range of the audio so that
> the loudest noises and the quietest noises aren't so far apart. You
> might want to try it.
They call it "Dynamic Range Control" (rather than 'compression') in my DVD
player manual. I've got it turned ON now and expect to leave it that way.
> Of course, I've taken the liberty of assuming that you might say "the
> actors are mumbling like James Dean" when you actually mean "the
> dialogue isn't loud enough."
They're mumbling (or whispering, or grunting, etc), which isn't loud enough
to hear well enough to understand what they're saying, or trying to say. :)
I think James Dean did it pretty well, combined with some body language, so
he was generally understood. Marlon Brando also did a pretty good mumble.
Most other actors who try it fall flat.
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