asked on 7/22/2008

Hardware device to auto-level volume?

Does such a thing exist? I've got a friend who plays DVDs of her TV at a fairly quiet volume - and she finds that for the parts of the movie where there is just dialogue, she has to turn it up, then quickly turn it down when the action happens because it gets too loud.

Is there a hardware device that can level the volume? Quiet or amplify on the fly so that the sound output stays at approximately the same number of decibels? What would such a device be called?

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Callandor

7/22/2008

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Frosty555

7/22/2008

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It's just playing through a normal TV - no surround sound. Just stereo. The 2-channel soundtrack is the one that is selected. It really just is that the actual volume of one part of the movie is lower than the other - e.g. walking through the woods having a conversation vs. screaming and running and fighting the dragon that comes out ten minutes later...

So a dynamic range compressor, huh? Hmm, or according to wikipedia, an "Audio Limiter", appears to be the name of the device I'm looking for. It seems like the kind of device that would be useful for just about every concert, radio station, restaurant and recording studio... is it really a niche device?

Maybe there are consumer grade "limiters" out there?

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