There is no volume setting for me that makes this comfortable to listen to. If I turn the volume up so I can hear the actors, the riffers sound like they are shouting. If I turn the volume down far enough that the riffers sound reasonable, I can't hear the actors clearly.
I would love to have the isolated tracks so I could make a decent mix of this.
I agree. I'm glad it's not just me.
Did you guys download it, or are you streaming it? SD or HD? I'm streaming the HD version and it sounds perfectly fine to me. Don't know if that makes any difference, but I don't know what else could be different.
Quote from: CJones on December 23, 2020, 12:41:28 PM
Did you guys download it, or are you streaming it? SD or HD? I'm streaming the HD version and it sounds perfectly fine to me. Don't know if that makes any difference, but I don't know what else could be different.
SD and streaming. I guess that could be it but it usually never matters. I buy everything SD for that old time MST feeling, ha ha.
My copy was the 12 GB HD download.
I got curious and decided to fix the volume with a brute force approach. I have one of the many 'full' versions with a runtime of 2:10:13. (This version exists in both B&W and color) I imported the riff and the soundtrack from the 'full version' into Audacity and manually synced the shorter riff audio to the full-version audio. This is really tedious because there are many tiny differences like single frames missing that make it reverb if you don't resync at every lost frame. There was one case where Potter has a line in the riff that is not in my 'full' version. This goes back to there were many different prints running around while the copyright was not in force.
Eventually I broke it into enough small pieces that when I synced the individual segments to within a millisecond or so there's little or no reverb. I dropped the gain on the riff 5dB and then mixed it with the full soundtrack which drops the riff another 3dB relative to the soundtrack.
I added the riff to the full movie which now has two soundtracks.
Long story short, the volume is much closer to what it should be if the isolated riff volume is dropped about 8dB.
p.s. The joke about Clarence having the $8k was pretty clever!
Wow, that's some effort. Well done!
May I request that your P.S. be spoilered? That's such a great way to do the edit. It works so much better when it's unexpected imo.
Yes, I noticed the opening credits had music that drowns the guys out. Then many other moments where the movie dialogue was much lower than the riffer's microphone volumes.