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Forums - Movies & TV - Is it me or is sound mixing bloody awful nowadays?

curl-6 said:

Yeah it's not only a mixing thing I suppose but also the trend of actors mumbling their lines in a lot of recent films rather than speaking clearly. Nolan and Villeneuve's films are notably guilty of this, much as I enjoy them, everyone talks in that really low "dramatic" half-whisper.

I had a director almost 20 years ago asking for actor to whisper so low while doing ADR, that static noise from mic and preamp became more than noticeable (and we're talking about very expensive equipment here). Combine that with lousy articulation, and bingo.