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How else would you mix the dialogue except to come out of both speakers though?
by chrisseaton 5y ago
How else would you mix the dialogue except to come out of both speakers though?
- noizejoy 5y agoJust make it a bit louder, before summing it into the left and right channel
- chrisseaton 5y agoRight... so why isn't that done already from the 5.1 signal?
- noizejoy 5y agoI have no idea why that’s not being automatically done when the mixdown occurs in the player.
- eropple 5y agoBecause other times when it's not dialogue (or even when it is--the busy/crowded street effect) you may not want the center channel gain to be raised during mixdown. Consumer hardware can only guess. A sound engineer can know.
- Grakel 5y agoYou mix the dialog louder for the entire piece, and every other sound in the middle. No extreme highs, no extreme lows. General compression with dialog forward choices.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoI don't know why compression isn't built in to consumer media devices, it's so often called for (and closely followed by volume normalisation ... but I guess the advertisers veto that).
- chipotle_coyote 5y ago> I don't know why compression isn't built in to consumer media devices As always, it depends on the device. Dynamic range compression seems to be a relatively common feature, usually as an option described (inaccurately) with something like "Reduce Loud Sounds" like it is on the Apple TV.