I live in a tiny apartment and usually watch on headphones. I don’t find sound to be a huge part to movies, I just hate needing subtitles in my first language to understand what people are saying. I will not spend extra money for hardware to view something (ripped from) a fucking 720p-capped Netflix stream because the people who make them don’t want to make a good product.
Well if you’re wearing headphones then the solution is simple. Install Equalizer APO and then a dialog booster VST plug in (there are many, don’t make me do the googling). Alternatively you could just boost the frequencies you struggle to hear the most to solve the issue.
There’s a significant amount of detail lost in using gates and expanders in film. Drives me up the fucking wall that we still use hardware and software that’s not very good. I’d much rather hear some noise than transients and tail air. I stg.
I live in a tiny apartment and usually watch on headphones. I don’t find sound to be a huge part to movies, I just hate needing subtitles in my first language to understand what people are saying. I will not spend extra money for hardware to view something (ripped from) a fucking 720p-capped Netflix stream because the people who make them don’t want to make a good product.
Well if you’re wearing headphones then the solution is simple. Install Equalizer APO and then a dialog booster VST plug in (there are many, don’t make me do the googling). Alternatively you could just boost the frequencies you struggle to hear the most to solve the issue.
So I should fo the mixing for every film?
I cannot believe these people want me to pay for media.
TBF the original question was when audio mixing peaked—which I answered—both film and music.
There’s a significant amount of detail lost in using gates and expanders in film. Drives me up the fucking wall that we still use hardware and software that’s not very good. I’d much rather hear some noise than transients and tail air. I stg.