The Flash movie needs an audio update

[Substance]

I’m running 5.2.4, and I leave DTS Neural X on all the time, but shouldn’t have done anything to an Atmos track.

This is my setup:

Othello Cinema

www.avsforum.com

Nice theater!

 

[AllThingsTech]

The Neural X isn’t doing anything, since the source track is Atmos.

My speakers are ultra-efficient, but you have plenty of juice running yours as well so there shouldn’t really be any issue.

Ok, well then I’m back to being confused lol.
Hoping there is a solution from K-Scape’s content team , until then I’ll try the suggestion of seeing how the 5 channel audio track sounds and then also checking another source to further eliminate variables.

 

[thrillcat]

Nice theater!

Thanks! Just finishing things up.

 

[Hunter67]

Nice theater!

Agreed, very nice, I've heard really good things about the NextLevel Acoustics speakers!

 

[MikeKobb]

Hi folks,

We checked with our contacts at the studio, and we are told that the audio mix on the film is as intended by the director.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Hi folks,

We checked with our contacts at the studio, and we are told that the audio mix on the film is as intended by the director.

Oh no.. Well I appreciate you trying to help and
thanks as always Mike and to everyone else offering advice.

 

[Substance]

Hi folks,

We checked with our contacts at the studio, and we are told that the audio mix on the film is as intended by the director.

This settles it. We must respect the film maker’s creative vision and artistic intends. I have watched many films with “intended” underwhelming audio mixes because the director wanted the audience to focus more on the dialog or certain other aspects of the film.

 

[Oldred]

We purchased the Flash on pre-order but for various reasons only got around to watching it over the weekend. The sound was completely underwhelming and I had to crank it up to get it to sound ‘OK’ which ties in to one of the earlier comments. It was a bit of a distraction after that which was annoying. I can understand the Director wanting a particular sound/tone to the movie’s audio/soundtrack but I am struggling to understand what requirement there could be to set the sound level that much lower than usual. I do have the feeling that too many Directors fail to leverage the power of the audio mixes. They recognise the power of the music etc but too often miss a trick

 

[thrillcat]

We purchased the Flash on pre-order but for various reasons only got around to watching it over the weekend. The sound was completely underwhelming and I had to crank it up to get it to sound ‘OK’ which ties in to one of the earlier comments. It was a bit of a distraction after that which was annoying. I can understand the Director wanting a particular sound/tone to the movie’s audio/soundtrack but I am struggling to understand what requirement there could be to set the sound level that much lower than usual. I do have the feeling that too many Directors fail to leverage the power of the audio mixes. They recognise the power of the music etc but too often miss a trick

Mixing for soundbars.

 

[AllThingsTech]

We purchased the Flash on pre-order but for various reasons only got around to watching it over the weekend. The sound was completely underwhelming and I had to crank it up to get it to sound ‘OK’ which ties in to one of the earlier comments. It was a bit of a distraction after that which was annoying. I can understand the Director wanting a particular sound/tone to the movie’s audio/soundtrack but I am struggling to understand what requirement there could be to set the sound level that much lower than usual. I do have the feeling that too many Directors fail to leverage the power of the audio mixes. They recognise the power of the music etc but too often miss a trick

I 100000% agree, I know based on having heard interviews with some Hollywood mixing engineers that tons of directors have no objective understanding of how sound mixes should sound but I feel like being an audiophile my opinion is just regarded as snobbery.

 

[Vodder]

I never got past the first 15 mins or so because of the sound :-( Yes, I could crank it up but that ain't the point and I"m not exactly running Sonos. (no disrespect to Sonos). What @Oldred says above, it's a distraction! I'm bored of superhero yawn movie tied to movie because of movie etc... funny the director managed to stick the last nail in the coffin for me LOL (DC and Marvel)

 

[thrillcat]

I never got past the first 15 mins or so because of the sound :-( Yes, I could crank it up but that ain't the point and I"m not exactly running Sonos. (no disrespect to Sonos). What @Oldred says above, it's a distraction! I'm bored of superhero yawn movie tied to movie because of movie etc... funny the director managed to stick the last nail in the coffin for me LOL (DC and Marvel)

Ha! Yes. A friend just posted on social media over the weekend that his grade school kids pointed out that it was so refreshing to go see a movie that didn't require homework.

It's really nice to watch a movie that is a self-contained story in 90-120 minutes, instead of being a small subset of an entire universe of 30 different 3 hour movies that all call back to a movie from 4 years ago based on a comic from the 50s.

 

[Vodder]

spot on @thrillcat

 

[ht guy]

So true!