@amirm Great explanation, thank you!
Curious question, regarding the ability to measure peak SPL:
REW gives out a L(Z) peak value and it defines it as "minimum, maximum and unweighted peak levels." according to the help file.
Any idea how accurate that value is, when measuring with a calibrated UMIK-1?
PS: tell me about pianos being loud... whenever my teacher plays anything beyond mf, I always cover my ears. Too much Grand for too little room in my music school.
Totally confused by this - what is the business case for rolling off below 30Hz?There are some great titles with very low bass, but the trend from the Major studios has been to start rolling off bass at 30Hz.
You'd expect Godzilla V Kong, as put in Braveheart heavy horse, to "Shake the very ground".
The answer for the bass-heads is found in this thread where equalization is provided per title to restore low/subsonic bass.
(21) Bass EQ for Filtered Movies | Page 881 | AVS Forum
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The dotted lines are before applying "restorative" bass equalization.
As you say, there are good titles out there as well.
- Rich
I'm wondering if theaters pump the volume above reference because they have no clue what they're doing? I find some movie theaters to be way too loud on some action movies.In the movie world I became really obsessed with getting to the bottom of this. I found a way of digitally measuring sound levels of movies that I were concerned were too loud at reference. Here are my results on a couple of posts in this thread : https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=17911587&postcount=342
TL;DR - movies listened to at reference aren't going to make you go deaf. Not even Michael Bay at reference
I have shown my wife meter readings with numbers within safe level........ she still says my music is too loud.Hello All,
To make my house a happy home I bought one of these. It sits on the side table with the DVD and AVR remote controls.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KKQI2H6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
My wife walks in the room to complain about it being too loud, I hand her the remote and the sound level meter.
For those that care it is not the peak levels that are important it is the 8 Hour Time Weighted Average that creeps up on you.
Totally confused by this - what is the business case for rolling off below 30Hz?
I'm wondering if theaters pump the volume above reference because they have no clue what they're doing? I find some movie theaters to be way too loud on some action movies.
THIS! I guess they're replacing 25Hz bass with butt shaking as it doesn't move between wallsI took my kids to a Dolby cinema to watch ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY.
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It was too loud and not much bass, but our butts were shaken.
- Rich
Curious question, regarding the ability to measure peak SPL:
REW gives out a L(Z) peak value and it defines it as "minimum, maximum and unweighted peak levels." according to the help file.
Any idea how accurate that value is, when measuring with a calibrated UMIK-1?
Damn, I bet your wife loves you....she gets to calibrate her complaints to a sound level meter!Hello All,
To make my house a happy home I bought one of these. It sits on the side table with the DVD and AVR remote controls.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KKQI2H6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
My wife walks in the room to complain about it being too loud, I hand her the remote and the sound level meter.
For those that care it is not the peak levels that are important it is the 8 Hour Time Weighted Average that creeps up on you.
I'm wondering if theaters pump the volume above reference because they have no clue what they're doing? I find some movie theaters to be way too loud on some action movies.
Agreed, I am a big fan of @Matthew J Poes and the content he produces for Audioholics, this being one of them!Audioholics had a great video with Matt, who's an exceptional communicator on this stuff (). He took a trip to the Dolby cinema with a calibrated SPL meter and reports no issue as far as averages go (82dbA average for Frozen). But he does mention that it's a kids movie and the amount of speakers a Dolby Atmos theater has is really throwing off calibrations.