maxmercy Posted January 30 Author Report Share Posted January 30 You can see here that TDK only clips in one channel, at only two points in the movie: This is the entire movie, all channels, L/R/C/LFE/SL/SR in order 1-6. Just after the one hour mark, the center channel clips in one place (marked in red), and once at the end. TDKR, however, is a different story: As you can see, the screen channels clip nearly throughout the film, followed by the surrounds, then the LFE. It is an utter disaster, and the soundtrack is very loud because of it (one of the loudest I have measured). JSS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted January 30 Author Report Share Posted January 30 So TDKR was kind of a mess, fidelity-wise. Lots of clipped tops make for a harsh soundtrack. Watching the movies back-to-back and with a surround system (down-mixing to 2.1 unless your AVR is doing it from an LPCM source will introduce dynamic compression by your AVR) is enlightening. I think TDK is one of the best soundtracks around, and TDKR could have been, if someone didn't just turn the gain up until every loud effect clipped. Another reason TDKR got such bad reviews here is this: This is the entire PvA for TDKR. But if you isolate the first 10 minutes: You can see it is a full bandwidth presentation with effects into the single digits. The rest of the film, however, is different: With a significant rolloff under 30Hz. The difference was easily heard and felt in a system that can reproduce under 20Hz. It is as if the ultra low bass knob was simply turned down. If you remember when TDKR was initially in theaters, a special 'Prologue' was released in IMAX theaters 6 months before the movie was released. It is my theory that this prologue was mixed independently and that mix was kept for the final film, and the rest of the film got highpassed when mixed. Unfortunately ALL of it is clipped. One of the worst cases of clipping in a movie I have seen, and heard. The first time I became aware of clipping was in Tron:Legacy, when I saw the BluRay and it was definitely different compared to the theater presentation. The effects dug deeper, but the sound was clipped in many places, confirmed by looking at the waveforms. JSS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted February 2 Author Report Share Posted February 2 Slowly I will start fixing the links in the first post. All the 5-Star films have correct links now. JSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted February 5 Author Report Share Posted February 5 The 4.75 Star Films now have proper links, some images got lost on the PvAs of the 4.5 Star films that I am working on correcting. JSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmercy Posted February 7 Author Report Share Posted February 7 4.5 Star Film links are now correct in first post. Vote on Oppenheimer if you get the chance. JSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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