Now that is technical bullshit raised to the N'th power. If you raise the average volume level you raise the perceived volume, period! I will give you the benefit of believing you read that technobable somewhere and did not have the knowledge to understand it.
John Sessoms wrote: > > There's a limit to how loud a signal they can broadcast. 100% modulation > is the max, anything over just distorts. > > The commercials aren't actually any louder than the programming, but > there's a trick that can be done with compression to make them *seem* > louder. Most TV audio has a dynamic range that includes both loud and > quiet sound. But with compression the quiet sounds are boosted so that > dynamic range is eliminated. The quiet sounds are boosted up to near > 100% modulation and it's that sustained high modulation that makes them > sound louder. > > You could do the same to all of the programming sound, compress it to > make all of the modulation near 100% and then just turn the volume down > on the whole thing, but it'd take a lot of work. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
