David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote: > > Which brings us back to why Blumlein invented > stereo. Yet even the IMAX version of Spectre has > the voices all panned centre! Concerning which, > I sat in a good seat (very comfortable!) and was > appalled at the lack of coherence of the sound > generally. I have heard better string tone from > a synthesizer, and even my ancient ears found everything 10dB too loud. > > David >
Yep, there is something very wrong. I half-watched The Hobbit (or rather one of the umpteen films they've milked out of the book). Seemed to be a black and white film (?low budget) but at least you could hear the dialogue. There seem to be a lot of films about dystopian societies where the video has been reduced to 8-bit grey scale and the dialogue drowned by noise. To me the dystopian society is the one that produces this garbage. There are some quite good Anglo-Saxon words that could describe it without inventing new ones. Michael Think I may have already told this one: Quite some years ago I had insisted that the children watch videos in the original language _and_ without subtitles. I caught them with the subtitles on. They responded that the subtitles were in the same language as the soundtrack, and they had them on because they couldn't hear the dialogue. I listened for a bit ... and apologised. Presumably there are special plug-ins that destroy sondtracks. It would be fascinating if someone would (anonymously, I presume) come 'out' and share the dirt ... ... _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
