US Season Two - Sound Mix
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US Season Two - Sound Mix
Is it just me or are the music and sound effects mixed REALLY LOUD and sometimes drown out the speech audio. It might just be because I'm playing it through two speakers but yeah, dang. I usually watch the episodes with subtitles.
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I use a surround system and noticed the soundtrack overpowering the dialogue coming from the center speaker, so I had to adjust the volume up on that channel. Then very late I was using headphones and had problems hearing the dialogue in some scenes because of the loudness of the music. (my ears are good)jmichael wrote:It may be the down mix to stereo, but I can't say for sure. On my surround system, everything is at a good level. Dialouge is clear.
There are some episodes that are "worse" than others. If so many people are noticing and mentioning this then something's up.
When originally broadcast, and on the VHS and Laserdiscs, the mix was perfect. But Lynch is notorious for liking very loud music in his work.
So I think either there's a mistake, or Lynch mixed it badly for the Season 2 DVDs.
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Given how meticulous Lynch is about this it's amazing that mistakes get through on the DVDs.
Someone can correct me since I haven't watched in a little bit but isn't the music level totally off in the "partyland" scene in FWWM? It's supposed to drown out the talking (hence the subtitles) but I feel like you can hear the dialogue pretty clearly.
It makes a mockery of the subtitles, the effort of making a DTS track and of Lynch's specific instructions to theatre owners on how to set the levels. (I guess you can turn down your centre channel but that's kinda beside the point.)
Someone can correct me since I haven't watched in a little bit but isn't the music level totally off in the "partyland" scene in FWWM? It's supposed to drown out the talking (hence the subtitles) but I feel like you can hear the dialogue pretty clearly.
It makes a mockery of the subtitles, the effort of making a DTS track and of Lynch's specific instructions to theatre owners on how to set the levels. (I guess you can turn down your centre channel but that's kinda beside the point.)
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Go figure. I also noticed it was odd the dialogue in that scene was louder, or the music wasn't as loud. Odd.tj o'pootertoot wrote:Given how meticulous Lynch is about this it's amazing that mistakes get through on the DVDs.
Someone can correct me since I haven't watched in a little bit but isn't the music level totally off in the "partyland" scene in FWWM? It's supposed to drown out the talking (hence the subtitles) but I feel like you can hear the dialogue pretty clearly.
It makes a mockery of the subtitles, the effort of making a DTS track and of Lynch's specific instructions to theatre owners on how to set the levels. (I guess you can turn down your centre channel but that's kinda beside the point.)
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I'm watching the series a couple of episodes per week with some friends, and I've felt like the dialogue was marginally quieter than everything else compared to S1, but not annoyingly so. Watching episode 20-21 tonight though, I found myself adjusting the volume constantly, unable to find a satisfying balance. Has anyone else found the later episodes to have a worse sound mix than the earlier ones? It sounds unfeasible, I know, but I really struggled with these last two...
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I don't remember exactly which episode it was, but right around the one Diane Keaton directed, had major sound problems. I remember a scene with James on the motorcycle and the music really blasting, which was fine, but when the dialogue came I would have have to turn the volume up, then turn it down when the music came back.Parkamarka wrote:I'm watching the series a couple of episodes per week with some friends, and I've felt like the dialogue was marginally quieter than everything else compared to S1, but not annoyingly so. Watching episode 20-21 tonight though, I found myself adjusting the volume constantly, unable to find a satisfying balance. Has anyone else found the later episodes to have a worse sound mix than the earlier ones? It sounds unfeasible, I know, but I really struggled with these last two...
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