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If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? (vger.social)
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[–] 49 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

TV remotes, computer speakers, car radios, etc must have two sets of volume up / volume down controls. One for upper volume limit, and one for the lower.

Now I can hear what the characters are whispering to eachother, without waking up the entire apartment complex when there's a gunshot on screen.

Or hear the quiet parts of music when I'm driving without blowing my eardrums out when the contrasting high energy part kicks in.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That's called a compressor and you could run your stereo through one or use a mobile app to do the processing on your phone.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    All of my my windows machines that are hooked up to screens have Loudness Equalization enabled, which works a dream!

    My Linux boxes have another software I can’t remember the name of, which do the same thing but does require more tuning.

    I couldn’t watch anything without it.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    If you have a surround setup, try boosting only the center speaker. Dialog is usually played through that.

    Someone else mentioned a compressor. If your tv/hifi has a night mode, it’s doing that exact thing.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is not as straightforward as you might think. If there's an actual quiet part it would amplify the background noise.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do I not amplify the background noise when I turn it up myself? I think they're looking more for a "variable volume" option rather than any actual audio engineering

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    It frustrates me to no end that you can customize audio levels for vocals, music, sound effects, etc in video games, but you can't individually customize anything volume-wise on a TV.

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