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Originally Posted by WriteSimply
It makes everything sounds as loud as the next scene?
That's the purpose of sound design and mixing: to draw you in and get you more involved. Just imagine horror flicks without the sudden jump cuts. It's the same issue. Another example: In real life your voice does not have the same dynamic range as a canon being fired.
Good directors, mixers and designers do not sacrifice dialog intelligibility for action. There are a few movies that have that but they are rare.
Well then that's just your "setup", which justifies your love for DRC.
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Yes, but here's my million dollar question on the subject: If Blu-ray film soundtracks are preserved, faithful copies of the studio masters, doesn't that mean they're mastered for a movie theater and not for home use? Both environments are very different spatially and accoustically. Plus, a 5.1 or 7.1 channel movie theater speaker array is very different than you'd find in any of our homes.
I'm definitely not saying DRC is the tool to equalize out the presentation between movie theater and home theater, but what, if anything, balances it out?
I apologize if this is seen as a threadjacking, because that was certainly not my intent. Writesimply's response about the sound design and mixing, which was good, prompted my question. Is this issue part of what DRC was meant to assist with?
For the record, I only use DRC (enabled through my receiver) when I'm trying not to wake my wife or son.