[jeff c]

On Sep 8, 5:35 pm, "Richard Crowley" wrote:
"William Sommerwerck" wrote ...

This applies to commercials, too. It took me a dozen viewings before
I figured out that the guy was saying "What if this continues?"

I think commercials in movie theatres are offensive, personally, and
they
just get worse and worse too.

Agreed, but I was talking about commercials on TV.

Not just commercials. I was viewing the commercially-released
DVDs of the first season of "Numb3rs" and some of the dialog,
particularly interior scenes (in the FBI office, etc.) is unusually
mushy. It is almost as if they were merely recording a "guide track"
with the intention of ADR, and then decided to save money and
not do the ADR after all.

LOL... I find myself ocassionally saying "Escuse me" or What? in
conversation... now I find myself saying it to the screen.

BTW the average 35 year old caucasion male starts to lose hearing
around the 2k range as a normal part of aging... women and other
ethnicities start losing it a few years later... 2K is where "Voice"
gets it's intelligibility. I'm 50 and have been doing sound in one
form or another for 34 years...I have witnessed a great number of
people willingly expose themselves to ear damaging SPL's... My theory
is that the last three generations of humanity have been exposed to
noise levels that the speciecs was not designed to endure... since
"Showco" went out with a half million watts of midrange in the 70's so
that people could hear "Rock and a Roll"...it's amazing that so much
of the current generation can even hear themselves thinking. I have
tried to practice "Sonic Hygine" (earplugs) since I started... I Still
have a perfect 2.5k ringing in my ears sometimes....

I wonder how many deftone fans are now sound editors... I wonder how
many of us have had our hearing checked recently.... 6 years for me.
I wonder how much longer dialog will be relevant...

Ramble over...and out,

Jeff