It is just so freaking loud!
The last 3 times I have gone out to the movies the volume has just been overwhelming. I went to see Furry and walked out of the theater sonically exhausted. And I a musician that has spent 35 years standing in front of drum kits & 100 watt guitar amps getting pretty damn loud on stage at times.:guitar:
I don’t know if it is I am just getting old :grumpy: Or that I am going to matinees when the theater is only 20% full & the volume level has not been adjusted to take in to account that there isn’t all those bodies absorbing the sound or what?.
But I swear I am to the point of preferring to watch movies at home on my HD big screen & home theater set up where I can control the sound.
I am even thinking of adding a compressor/limiter to my home 7.1 system to add some control the overwhelming dynamics in some of the action movies.
It is strange because it seems movies are mixed with this huge dynamic range. And yet music seems to be mixed to have all the dynamics squished to death.
What is up with audio mixing & mastering these days?
Am I just a audio control freak or are there others that feel the same way at the movie theaters these days?:scratch2:
Damn I like going to the movies but I feel like I need to wear hearing protection sometimes:thumbsdn:
As always YMMV
Cheers
PQ
The last 3 times I have gone out to the movies the volume has just been overwhelming. I went to see Furry and walked out of the theater sonically exhausted. And I a musician that has spent 35 years standing in front of drum kits & 100 watt guitar amps getting pretty damn loud on stage at times.:guitar:
I don’t know if it is I am just getting old :grumpy: Or that I am going to matinees when the theater is only 20% full & the volume level has not been adjusted to take in to account that there isn’t all those bodies absorbing the sound or what?.
But I swear I am to the point of preferring to watch movies at home on my HD big screen & home theater set up where I can control the sound.
I am even thinking of adding a compressor/limiter to my home 7.1 system to add some control the overwhelming dynamics in some of the action movies.
It is strange because it seems movies are mixed with this huge dynamic range. And yet music seems to be mixed to have all the dynamics squished to death.
What is up with audio mixing & mastering these days?
Am I just a audio control freak or are there others that feel the same way at the movie theaters these days?:scratch2:
Damn I like going to the movies but I feel like I need to wear hearing protection sometimes:thumbsdn:
As always YMMV
Cheers
PQ