Re: the Country Park vs Gosford Park

In message <MPG.1ee69eaa55b5e0819897ef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Plusnet <not@xxxxxxxx> writes
In article <$dblD9CWVHfEFwEG@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, martin@xxxxxx says...
badriya wrote...
>I have difficulty with the sound on The West Wing. The story moves
>very fast and missing any makes it hard to keep up. I have had
>problems with sound on other programmes, where I have to turn it up,
>and went to have my hearing tested, partly because of that.
>
>I hear ok most of the time so it is definitely the programmes.

I have never watched the West Wing but I have difficulty with American
programmes in general and often find that I need to watch them with
subtitles in order to understand what is being said. I have tended to
put this down to a certain sloppiness of speech and elision of words
rather than accent.

As many programmes & films are recorded for playback in multi-speaker
surround-sound systems, does this have any detrimental effect for those
of us with just basic equipment?

I expect 'they' are aiming to produce a rich soundstage which is as
complex as the visual element of the film/prog - great art but lousy for
comprehension.

I have the (probably false) impression that those people who install
multi-speaker systems are more inclined to use higher volume settings
(queue here for the neighbour-from-hell thread swerve) and this might be
considered the baseline for recording methods.

I often feed the audio from a film through my "HiFi" speakers in
addition to the TV's own speakers - this does improve things, but that
improvement might be just due to the volume increase.

I don't suppose there are any umrats with views on sound recording
techniques used in various media? (tic)

Sam

Recently, the Toodles household has started accumulating DVD's, I have noticed that Dialogue versus FX is not as I would balance it myself but as yet, I have not found many problems. I have seen oodles of correspondence on the subject from learned people who have a hand in these matters and from many more without influence. The general feeling is that Cinemas play the soundtrack at too high a level in general and that this is probably the level at which the dubbing engineers listen. Not an ideal situation I feel!

Toodle Spit,

Mike
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