Dear Hollywood, please stop using bass drops in movie trailers.

[foghorn67]

It could also be some sort of insight on terrible the movie will be. While waiting for Star Wars, some alien invasion movie preview had a plethora of them. No, not that alien invasion movie. The other one with Chloe Meretz. Bvvvvvvmmmmmm... Over and over again. One of bassy farts escaped during something benign.


Make the bad man stop.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Right now for everything it is:

BVVVVMMMMMM SCREEEEETCHH BVVVVVMMMMMM SCREEEEEETCH BVVVVVVMMMMMM SCREEEEETCH.

Name that movie(s) trailer(s).

 

[foghorn67]

Oh, and you can stop with that whole Bourne thing with someone disappearing behind a bus as it drives by.

 

[Imp]

That reminds me... I need to get a custom set of earplugs made. The shit in theaters is way too loud.

 

[Eug]

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe light earplugs to quiet the sound.

P.S. The other thing I hate is this jump landing everyone has.

 

[foghorn67]

Yes. Good one. Those landings suck.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

A Seinfeld movie would be chaos.

 

[zinfamous]

those are in every fucking movie and seriously needs to stop, tbh. Sound editing has just gone to dirt shit over the last couple of decades with this mouthbreather's "MORE LFE = MORE AWESOME!" theory.

LFE is great and useful, but should never be the predominant sound profile. It's preposterous.

 

[pyonir]

Couldn't agree more. Been bothering me for a few months now.

 

[shortylickens]

Asking Hollywood for originality is the most pointless endeavor since the War On Poverty.

 

[EliteRetard]

That reminds me... I need to get a custom set of earplugs made. The shit in theaters is way too loud.

This.

And stop overpowering all the important conversations with horrible noises/music.
I'm not a lip reader, and neither is anybody else I know.
If you insist on this stupid crap then at least put subtitles in.

 

[JSt0rm]

noted.

 

[Charmonium]

This.

And stop overpowering all the important conversations with horrible noises/music.
I'm not a lip reader, and neither is anybody else I know.
If you insist on this stupid crap then at least put subtitles in.

Preach brother, preach!!!! :thumbsup:

 

[Eug]

I wonder how much of that is audio calibration for certain theatres.

 

[Jeff7]

Wilhelm. Scream.

those are in every fucking movie and seriously needs to stop, tbh. Sound editing has just gone to dirt shit over the last couple of decades with this mouthbreather's "MORE LFE = MORE AWESOME!" theory.

LFE is great and useful, but should never be the predominant sound profile. It's preposterous.

Maybe it triggers some primitive part of the brain.


"That movie was amazing. I need to go see it again tomorrow. It's so weird though, I can't remember any particularly good or interesting scene, but I really need to go back tomorrow. Or maybe again tonight."

 

[Jeeebus]

WOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Otherwise known as

INNNNNCCCEEEEEPPPPPTIIIIOOOOONNNN

 

[JSt0rm]

I wonder how much of that is audio calibration for certain theatres.

mostly theaters turn down mixes. Everything is mixed at 85dbu@-20dbfs But ye modern movies are much louder then they were years ago. We still need to come in on spec but its a problem for sure.

 

[Eug]

Thanks but what do you mean by coming in on spec yet it still being a problem?

 

[clamum]

WOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Otherwise known as

INNNNNCCCEEEEEPPPPPTIIIIOOOOONNNN

Yeah it's the "Inception BUHHHHHHHHH." At least that's what I call it, and I started noticing it after that movie came out. Now every goddamn trailer has that fucking bassy horn or whatever-the-fuck-it-is. Ridiculous.

 

[JSt0rm]

Wilhelm. Scream.

too many people know about this to use it anymore. The best use I heard was in the tron remake.

 

[Eug]

Tron: Legacy had the best soundtrack, but that's just because I liked the music with its incorporation of the sounds and themes from the originals.

 

[JSt0rm]

Thanks but what do you mean by coming in on spec yet it still being a problem?

Like we can have a dynamic range that is real wide in film because we listen loud. What that usually means is we turn things down but an explosion in your face will be loud.

Modern music has very little dynamic range because they listen at lower levels and try to maximize the loudness of the digital file. Modern film cant go that route because all dub stages have been calibrated to 85dbu (at mix position) with pink noise that is at -20dbfs (in the digital world.) and it pipes out of dac converters that have a variable trim that a -20db sine wave at 1khz read 1.223 volts.

The idea is and has been nobody in a theater can turn the volume down so we have to mix the film so that it isnt too loud. The catch is that is really only going to be true in the middle of the theater. The back of the theater will have too much surrounds and the front well yeah the front could get very loud.

 

[Eug]

I see. All the more reason for proper seat selection I guess.

Thanks.

 

[JSt0rm]

if you want to calibrate like a dub stage download this pink noise. This is the dolby pink noise and it is different then other pink noise.

http://thedubstage.com/pink-noise/

PLay it from one speaker at a time and calibrate. Most home theaters use a system based on this to calibrate your home theater. However for a dub stage a dolby calibration engineer will come with special software and 4 calibration mics and calibrate the room based on how that pink noise plays.

 

[JSt0rm]

I see. All the more reason for proper seat selection I guess.

Thanks.

Always sit center middle of the theater. If it is too loud or too quite note your distance and tweak it. I only get tickets in row M at my favorite theater because I know that room.