/32/ - Psychopolitics

>>3777

audio guy here, what you are thinking of as normalization is more specifically 2 processes. "dynamics processing" - where loud portions of an audio and quiet portions are equalized, and then "normalization" which brings the whole piece up to a level where the loudest portions (now constituting a much greater proportion of the overall track) are amplified to 0 db (maximum volume) Maybe I'll do some research and post some thoughts about what I think the psychological effects of this are in a couple of hours.

Anyone have a list of the music industry brainwashing and general audio hypnosis tactics? I'm looking for specific technical examples and how to. I'd like to do a video explaining them

>>3777

Look for MKUltra project

>>3777

Normalizing audio doesn't have any detrimental effects. In music and video, it's an important step that makes it so that the end consumer doesn't have to adjust their speaker volume from song to song and scene to scene. It's essentially just a method of audio level standardization.

Dynamics processing as mentioned by >>3778 is meant to control sounds which are too loud and make quiet sounds louder and more audible. Overuse of it can definitely cause unnatural effects. I'd say that would be the work of an unskilled audio producer.

What you're referring to sounds more like the use of sound effects and foley in general. Producers tend to make everyday noises audible because it makes it more immersive. The more immersed you are, the more you watch. Same thing with music in TV shows. A well-crafted, attention grabbing piece of media will have realistic ambient noise (varies depending on the scene and setting), audibly-pleasing sound effects, and music that carries you from scene to scene and emotion to emotion.

A good example of this would be to watch an episode of the british version of Kitchen Nightmares, which has no music and sound effects, and compare it to the american version which is loaded with it. It's much easier to tear your attention away from the british version since it's not affecting your physiology to the same degree as the american version, which is more immersive and exciting. The motivation for using effects in this case is simply to keep people watching a certain show, but the same tactics can be used to hypnotic effect.

i know what you mean, i'm fucking disgusted when im in the cinema and they have some dumb bitch whisper her lines, then they turn it all the way up and you can hear the spit ruminate in her mouth, like bitch SPEAK UP i can hear what you ATE for lunch. its obviously not how people speak and maybe just desensizites you to mouth breathing ways. its farfetched though i think its just a result of the dropped quality of everything involving this stuff

You mean making everything louder in music, etc? Yeah. Ignore the dribbling retards in this thread talking about something else entirely.

The massive amounts of bass and just the loudness of the music as standard contributes to listener fatigue. Look up the side effects of it. Tiredness, more docile, etc.

Almost all popular music (chart music) has massive bass probably because of this. I mean, you can say it's just coincidence but even in the 90's when the loudness shit really took off it was happening then too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listener_fatigue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_fatigue

>>3785

It's not that the sound effects themselves are over-amplified, at times it feels as if the entire audio stream was downsampled or mastered on piss-poor equipment.

Best I can describe it as sounding akin to low bitrate lossy audio coding artifacts, but with a bit of CRT static mixed in.

Trash like Notruf Hafenkante and other dumb shit aimed senile boomers age 65 and up seems to be most affected by this, although the German dub of the original Blade Runner and several other normalfag movies show the same thing.

Is it something that's only done OTA? Found an old home taped VHS of the 5th element from the early 2000s and it has this audio weirdness too albeit applied in a more uniform manner while BDrips and Jewtube clips do not.

Don't think it's my TV, its speakers provide fairly standard quality when watching pirated anime or playing gaymes.