Are Cable TV stations actually paid "extra" by clients to transmit their ads at up to 20dB louder than the regualr program, or is that just an ignorant sound engineer who doesn't know how to read a VU meter?
(Specific problem with cable provider "Cogeco").
2007-04-25 00:34:30 · 6 answers · asked by Marianna 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Wrong, "disco legend zeke", it makes me immediately flick to another channel...!
2007-04-25 00:48:04 · update #1
What's actually happening is that the TV program is broadcast at a lower sound level. You turn it up to hear it, then when the ads come on at the 'normal' level they are comparitively louder and get your attention. It's illegal to broadcast the ads louder, so this is how they get around it.
2007-04-25 00:54:25 · answer #1 · answered by cub222 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
20db? Do you have any concept what which ability? in all possibility not, yet in spite of everything right here is the respond... first of all, maximum human beings can not come across a 25% exchange in volume. The audio in labeled classified ads isn't louder, it merely sounds louder. Given a state of affairs of a television tutor with an audio variety of 0.0v (silent) to a million.0v(loud); maximum persons will agree which you will assume a tutor to have various levels of loudness. As in a automobile chase vs. a love scene. The audio interior the affection scene would be interior the variety of 0.0v - 0.4v. not genuine loud. however the automobile chase would have a type of 0.8v - a million.0v. plenty louder. Now while a tutor is going to a commercial, they do some thing called "fade to black", this is 0 video and nil audio. while the commercial starts off, you have misplaced your audio baseline, and that they start up the commercial at 0.999v. this is genuine loud while in comparison with the black silence. Ears have not got plenty interior the way of reminiscence. you think of a few thing replaced into louder, yet you cant tell except you A-B attempt the two components. the thank you to tutor or disprove this, is to apply an o'scope to degree the audio peaks on the speaker. the commercial would not bypass any louder than the television tutor. It merely has an stronger overall, by way of fact it would not ever settle down, and this makes it look like that is louder. Btw, a 20db exchange is extra desirable than 3 hundred%. it may in all possibility look that way; in case you're utilising it to earnings silence against something different than silence.
2016-11-27 19:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the loud ads are not ones that come with the program. They are ones inserted by the cable provider in between what they are playing from the program source. They are loud and repetitive and you can bet that the people running them are familiar with the way to control their equipment.
Luckily the latest cable package offers a DVR so any program that is recorded can easily be zipped past those commercials.
2007-04-25 01:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many programs are in stereo or even dolby 5.1.
even though the sound is spread out over two or more channels, the "total" sound must meet limits for broadcast.
now play a commercial in mono, even if recorded at proper levels it will sound louder.
then add compression and other "enhancements"
throw in a little careless dubbing
and, voila, loud loud commercials... its a pain
try writing letters to the sponsors.
2007-04-25 00:45:24 · answer #4 · answered by disco legend zeke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The major networks would do it too if it weren't against the law on broadcast TV and radio. Congress just needs to extend the law banning it on the airways to banning it in every media.
2007-04-25 00:47:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly why you suspect - it's to get your attention, and it's very annoying!
2007-04-25 00:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by Lineya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋