...sounds like a problem for the cable company head end, mostly, as when I mix an ad I don't know which programs it'll be running in. I'm gonna go read the full text of the bill to see if/how they define "excessively noisy or strident."The Library of Congress wrote:6/9/2008--Introduced.
Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prescribe a regulation prohibiting advertisements accompanying video programming from:
(1) being excessively noisy or strident;
(2) having modulation levels substantially higher than the accompanying program; and
(3) having an average maximum loudness substantially higher than that of the accompanying program.
Loudness wars legislation
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For broadcast TV commercials, anyhow:
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Well, the guys who'd be slapping that limiter on are the ones playing the spots too loud, so sure, let 'em. Cable TV sounds like shit already anyway.
It seems silly to waste time legislating something that, while admittedly really annoying, is only that: annoying.
It seems silly to waste time legislating something that, while admittedly really annoying, is only that: annoying.
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I am glad for this. The loud commercials can eat my cock.
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We've had a comp/limiter between the cable box and the stereo here for years, to mitigate that crap. (The "compressor" in the Motorola cable boxes sounds horrific, BTW. Not that anyone would expect otherwise.)
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I rather assumed it was because the professional TV and Film post houses usually send out the audio at around -20, or -10 dBFS, whereas the small-time local guys think they're mixing for radio and send it out at -3 or -.01.farview wrote:Half the time, the problem is the local cable company. This doesn't happen as much on national spots, only on local spots. Most of the time, the spot is actually the right volume, the program is too low because no one at the cable company gives a crap about audio.
Great! Now the ebay prices for motorola limiters just went up. THANKS!lyman wrote:dude, I use that motorola box all the time for tracking.Mark Alan Miller wrote:We've had a comp/limiter between the cable box and the stereo here for years, to mitigate that crap. (The "compressor" in the Motorola cable boxes sounds horrific, BTW. Not that anyone would expect otherwise.)
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