Movie sound quality

Posted by Josh Carter [IP: 142.5.35.9] on April 13, 1999 at 11:31:05
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In Reply to: Movie sound quality posted by Noah Katz on April 12, 1999 at 22:30:34:

Noah,

You are absolutely correct. The reason, as far as I know, is that at any given point in a movie, there are 20 or so different layers to the sound. As an example, there is the actors voices, footsteps, clothing movements, guns clicking, cars driving by, wind noise, soundtrack (which itself is multiple layers of drums, guitar, bass, vocals, piano, etc.), people in the background talking, planes flying over, birds, dogs, etc, etc, etc. This results in additional noise with every layer and thus a loss of detail and purity. In a well recorded CD, the engineer goes to great lengths to keep the noise out. However, it's impossible to keep the noise levels from 20 tracks in movies down to the same levels as with only a few tracks in good music.

The bright side is that they are getting better every day. With high end equipment like the Lex, Brystons, etc, we will be completely ready for the improved sound when it comes. But hey, they still sound pretty good as it is. In 'Fly Away Home', Mary Chapin Carpenter sings without any other audio, and it's great.

Now I am certainly not in the recording industry, so maybe some one here who is can give you a better explaination, and probably more accurate, but that's how I understand it.

Josh

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