Great video. I agree about the miscommunication and general confusion from many people about volumes and sweep levels. You need to be able to know what volume they were recoded at in order to properly calibrate and have consistency between systems. Full scale is 105dBFS for mains and 115dBFS for LFE. If the sweeps are -12dBFS then everything on the disc should be the same so once you set your MV you never have to touch it again. If you set it to 0 (max) and use -12dBFS sweeps, you'd level match to 93dB and 103dB, respectively. If that's too loud and you want 85dB, simply reduce your MV to -8 (-20 total) or 75dB reduce another -10 for -30 total. That way you you maintain a 1:1 playback with movies and know exactly how to correlate reference playback from a movie. Spears & Munsil 2nd edition is great because they're thr first disc to communicate clearly. Their audio pink tone has instructions that their pink noise is -30dBFS for mains (500hz-5khz) and -40dBFS for LFE (30hz-80hz) and you know to level match everything to 75dB.
Would love to see you do a timing and speaker pair from tool kit on a few speakers. I get confused on what perfect timing on tool kit is listening to place where two speakers share the tone as they are suppose to according to disc instructions.This also happens after you get timing on each speaker done and go to speakers pairs to hear that tone when both speakers timing works perfect. New to your channel and you do a great job explaining things in a way where a novice can figure things out. Actually hearing tones coming from speakers timed perfectly off tool kit will be a great help.
Lately I have been aligning spl at 0, then dropping the target - 10db. Everything is being cut for the most part, I'll typically zero out 10-59hz...sounds friggn awesome brother 👍
@hdmoviesource try it on 1 speaker and check out the results, then what I have been tinkering with is an eq on the cut curve and getting super sharp eq's with very little deviation. I'll take some pictures of all of the work and email you 👍
Greetings and compliments for this video and the others. I found this guide very efficient and I also use more or less the same 😊 settings, but I have a question ... if I extract the films from Blu-ray 1080p 4:2:0 8 bit 24p and put them in the player via HDD (USB) the player gives them to me at 60 fps; in your opinion, for the 1080p extracted at 60 fps, is it advisable to leave the Chroma YCbCr on the player in 4:4:4? If I leave it Automatic with 1080p 60 fps the player comes out in 4:2:2, should I leave it like this or is it preferable to use the 4:4:4 output on the player anyway? Thanks in advance and compliments for your content 😊
I wouldn't use Blu-ray standard over USB on a Panasonic UB9000 or any Panasonic, because it converts x264 content to 60 frames per second. I think it looks really bad. I noticed this when encoding some x264 content and testing them over usb. It's nothing to do with the chroma, it's a restriction on the player playing that content, unfortunately. If you can convert it to x265, you'll see that it plays perfectly at 24fps.
No, I feel as though I have the best results with this disc so far. I think these are minor issues that can be overcome. However, I think you're going to get amazing results with this or OCA's sweeps.
Great video. I agree about the miscommunication and general confusion from many people about volumes and sweep levels. You need to be able to know what volume they were recoded at in order to properly calibrate and have consistency between systems. Full scale is 105dBFS for mains and 115dBFS for LFE. If the sweeps are -12dBFS then everything on the disc should be the same so once you set your MV you never have to touch it again. If you set it to 0 (max) and use -12dBFS sweeps, you'd level match to 93dB and 103dB, respectively. If that's too loud and you want 85dB, simply reduce your MV to -8 (-20 total) or 75dB reduce another -10 for -30 total. That way you you maintain a 1:1 playback with movies and know exactly how to correlate reference playback from a movie.
Spears & Munsil 2nd edition is great because they're thr first disc to communicate clearly. Their audio pink tone has instructions that their pink noise is -30dBFS for mains (500hz-5khz) and -40dBFS for LFE (30hz-80hz) and you know to level match everything to 75dB.
Agreed.
Would love to see you do a timing and speaker pair from tool kit on a few speakers. I get confused on what perfect timing on tool kit is listening to place where two speakers share the tone as they are suppose to according to disc instructions.This also happens after you get timing on each speaker done and go to speakers pairs to hear that tone when both speakers timing works perfect. New to your channel and you do a great job explaining things in a way where a novice can figure things out. Actually hearing tones coming from speakers timed perfectly off tool kit will be a great help.
True, you could do this by listening too.
Lately I have been aligning spl at 0, then dropping the target - 10db. Everything is being cut for the most part, I'll typically zero out 10-59hz...sounds friggn awesome brother 👍
Interesting, so everything is a cut?
@@hdmoviesource yes sir 💯
@hdmoviesource try it on 1 speaker and check out the results, then what I have been tinkering with is an eq on the cut curve and getting super sharp eq's with very little deviation. I'll take some pictures of all of the work and email you 👍
Hi Carl, great! Finally your new video, I've been waiting for it!! Thank you, Carl.❤
Thank you Dan.
Greetings and compliments for this video and the others. I found this guide very efficient and I also use more or less the same 😊 settings, but I have a question ... if I extract the films from Blu-ray 1080p 4:2:0 8 bit 24p and put them in the player via HDD (USB) the player gives them to me at 60 fps; in your opinion, for the 1080p extracted at 60 fps, is it advisable to leave the Chroma YCbCr on the player in 4:4:4? If I leave it Automatic with 1080p 60 fps the player comes out in 4:2:2, should I leave it like this or is it preferable to use the 4:4:4 output on the player anyway? Thanks in advance and compliments for your content 😊
I wouldn't use Blu-ray standard over USB on a Panasonic UB9000 or any Panasonic, because it converts x264 content to 60 frames per second. I think it looks really bad. I noticed this when encoding some x264 content and testing them over usb. It's nothing to do with the chroma, it's a restriction on the player playing that content, unfortunately. If you can convert it to x265, you'll see that it plays perfectly at 24fps.
So with these issues, granted you can work around them.. would you just use OCA sweeps?
No, I feel as though I have the best results with this disc so far. I think these are minor issues that can be overcome. However, I think you're going to get amazing results with this or OCA's sweeps.