Comment by jabl
7 years ago
> More compression and less dynamic range is beneficial for certain environments. Noisy subways. Watching TV in a noisy downtown apartment. Basically, crappy, noisy environments.
Good point, I think particularly for movies or such this makes sense. I want to be able to watch a movie such that I hear what the characters are speaking, without blowing my windows out of their frames during some action scene. Yes, I realize in real life explosions, guns etc. are really loud, and this makes the movie less realistic.
Yes, I realize in real life explosions, guns etc. are really loud, and this makes the movie less realistic.
Really loud? Ear-damaging loud! When the realism becomes actually endangering to your health, your escapist media has gone a bit too far.
Film is mixed with much more dynamic range than music, modtly due to the fact that the environment is typically quite controlled.
This means usually the digital -6db is the maximum loudness with a short term maximum of -1db and dialogue at -9db.
Music today should be mixed according to the EBU R128 today (at least in Europe and for radio) which is a serious win against loundess maximizers and limiters.
I’d argue for in decice DSP compression for small earbud people, and give the whole dynamic range to the rest of us : )