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sub780lime · 10-09-2003, 07:15 PM

anyone ever heard if one of these

If you're tired of lowering the volum of TV commercias every five minutes, you'll love the TV volume regulator. Simply plug the regulator into your tvs audio input and output connectors and the volume never goes above a comfortable earlpleasing 30 decibels.

now my moms interested in this and i have two questions

does it work?

will it affect the sound quality?

the second doesnt matter too much to her but i want to know, what do you guys think?

tomdkat · 10-09-2003, 07:21 PM

Does it work with cable? What if the sound is coming from the internal TV speakers?

Peace...

***1138*** · 10-09-2003, 09:09 PM

I wouldn't want something like that. All they do is supress the sound level range. So when something is supposed to be quite, it is. When it's supposed to be loud, it's not. It can really take the imapct off of a movie's sound.

Same way songs sometimes aren't as good on the radio because the use volume leveling to keep the general volume of the station consistent but at the expense of some songs.

However, if all you do is watch commerical television, it might be nice.

Dilmo · 10-09-2003, 10:19 PM

When I worked for the cable company years ago, we did an experiment to see just how much louder commercials indeed were. We hooked a decibel meter up to monitor the signal. We were all surprised that although commercials sounded louder, they were in the same db range. Go figure.

Blackbelt Jones · 10-10-2003, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Dilmo

When I worked for the cable company years ago, we did an experiment to see just how much louder commercials indeed were. We hooked a decibel meter up to monitor the signal. We were all surprised that although commercials sounded louder, they were in the same db range. Go figure.

When I've cut spots for broadcast I've used several audio tools to pull off the trick you are describing above. When commercials are in post they sometimes undergo audio treatments similar to that of commercial music, including the use of "loudness maximizes" and/or "audio compressors." These compressors and compressor variants are designed to keep the dB "even" while filling out the audio "space." Think of your audio track like a big, empty box. Some commercials will fill EVERY cubic inch of that box with sound, thereby making it seem louder when in fact it is just "denser."

Sometimes, though, it is just a simple case of someone being asleep at the switch: "hot" signals from poorly mastered tapes slip can and do slip through the cracks. Quality control at the ol' TV station ain't what it used to be.

I have a compressor built in to my Digital Inspire Dolby/DTS decoder (www.creative.com) which can (supposedly) detect "dense" and un-normalized audio to keep an even output to my speakers. I do NOT use it with movies as it kills the dynamic range, but, as I use my DVD/VCR combo unit as a TV "tuner," I run the TV audio out from it and into the compressor... it works great with 90% of stereo TV audio.

sub780lime · 10-10-2003, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by tomdkat

Does it work with cable? What if the sound is coming from the internal TV speakers?

Peace...

i would assume so, it would just go between your cable box and TV, but if you dont have a cable box, im not sure if it has a cable input or output

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10-09-2003, 10:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dilmo Suspended Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: New Braunfels, Texas. Far From Crawford!	When I worked for the cable company years ago, we did an experiment to see just how much louder commercials indeed were. We hooked a decibel meter up to monitor the signal. We were all surprised that although commercials sounded louder, they were in the same db range. Go figure.