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RE: Cathe, SNM!! Is music volume supposed to be this l...
You will find if you listen to all of our DVDs a range in volume levels. Put in Imax 1 and you hear a music level lower than any of our DVDs, including the Hardcores. This is also true of other DVDs we sell.
FYI: duplication has nothing to with sound volume levels. The ratio of music to vocals is determined when the workouts are edited, not when they're duplicated. We always choose the highest music level we can without causing distortion in Cathe's vocals. You can push this limit just a little, like we did in the Body Blast series, but you run the risk of distorting the vocals and not being able to understand Cathe's voice.
This, in my opinion, happens just slightly in Body blast series. If you remember, we had to eat an entire truck load of videos with Body Blast series because the music was so loud that you could not hear Cathe Clearly. We only pushed the limit just a little past the safe zone, but the result was disastrous and caused a major delay in releasing this series. We have learned to always listen to our audio engineers and never push past the safe zone.
Usually, if a song has vocals we have to decrease the music loudness level even more because vocals will cause spikes in the audio levels. This is why you will notice that the overall music loudness level for songs with vocals are usually lower than songs with just instrumentals (this may not always be true as some music by design has low and high points).
To be honest, we always think the music in all of our DVDs and videos sound too low when played on just a regular TV with a mono speaker. However, when you play the same DVD on a TV that is hooked up to a stereo correctly, you will hear a huge difference and will find the audio levels to be right on. I know several of you have complained about the music on Low Max being too low. I tried playing Low Max on a small 12 inch TV with mono only and I agree that the music is just slightly low, but not really too different from our other DVDs. But when I took Low Max and played it on my Computer and home stereo, it sounded perfect. With a mono speaker you are missing the stereo sound plus you are not hearing a large percentage of the music frequencies.
I’m sorry some of you are disappointed, but audio levels are what they are. Some music can be played louder than others, while some has to be toned down. We too understand how important it is for the music to be at the appropriate levels, but we must stay in the safe zone (and we always push the audio engineers to the limit of this zone) or the result would be you would not understand Cathe and the distortion would be unbearable. I only hope some of you that are complaining will try the workouts on a computer or DVD player that has stereo speakers and a subwoofer.
Also, please make sure you don’t have your player set to “enhanced mode” and make sure your audio settings are set for stereo and PCM.
You will find if you listen to all of our DVDs a range in volume levels. Put in Imax 1 and you hear a music level lower than any of our DVDs, including the Hardcores. This is also true of other DVDs we sell.
FYI: duplication has nothing to with sound volume levels. The ratio of music to vocals is determined when the workouts are edited, not when they're duplicated. We always choose the highest music level we can without causing distortion in Cathe's vocals. You can push this limit just a little, like we did in the Body Blast series, but you run the risk of distorting the vocals and not being able to understand Cathe's voice.
This, in my opinion, happens just slightly in Body blast series. If you remember, we had to eat an entire truck load of videos with Body Blast series because the music was so loud that you could not hear Cathe Clearly. We only pushed the limit just a little past the safe zone, but the result was disastrous and caused a major delay in releasing this series. We have learned to always listen to our audio engineers and never push past the safe zone.
Usually, if a song has vocals we have to decrease the music loudness level even more because vocals will cause spikes in the audio levels. This is why you will notice that the overall music loudness level for songs with vocals are usually lower than songs with just instrumentals (this may not always be true as some music by design has low and high points).
To be honest, we always think the music in all of our DVDs and videos sound too low when played on just a regular TV with a mono speaker. However, when you play the same DVD on a TV that is hooked up to a stereo correctly, you will hear a huge difference and will find the audio levels to be right on. I know several of you have complained about the music on Low Max being too low. I tried playing Low Max on a small 12 inch TV with mono only and I agree that the music is just slightly low, but not really too different from our other DVDs. But when I took Low Max and played it on my Computer and home stereo, it sounded perfect. With a mono speaker you are missing the stereo sound plus you are not hearing a large percentage of the music frequencies.
I’m sorry some of you are disappointed, but audio levels are what they are. Some music can be played louder than others, while some has to be toned down. We too understand how important it is for the music to be at the appropriate levels, but we must stay in the safe zone (and we always push the audio engineers to the limit of this zone) or the result would be you would not understand Cathe and the distortion would be unbearable. I only hope some of you that are complaining will try the workouts on a computer or DVD player that has stereo speakers and a subwoofer.
Also, please make sure you don’t have your player set to “enhanced mode” and make sure your audio settings are set for stereo and PCM.
