how to fix low dialogue but loud sound effects in a movie?

by sarkis_yol1

i have an android box and when i try to play a movie on it the movie got a dynamic sound so it have a low volume for the dialogue and high for the explosions and music and sound effects that make it annoying for people around you is there any fix for that ?

Jashyk

That's more app specific. You'd have better luck asking on the app's subreddit.

midlots

What's your sound system? If you can discretely increase the volume on the center channel, that's where the dialogue is typically coming from.

hoopsdavis

this is an issue I've been dealing with from Kodi and Android TV. From my experience there aren't many audio settings once you move from running HDVR on PC to a HDVR box (Android TV) without adding hardware. If you're using the audio on your TV some tv's have a settings like "Movie", "Standard" and "Voice" The voice setting actually puts the "voice" audio in front of other audio. his is a setting I find on all of my Samsung TV's.

I hope this helps

MinerAlum

Check your settings on tv or sound system and see if set for surround sound. If it is change to stereo only

vendetta_86

Apps like kodi and mrmc allows you to downmix the audio channels as per your audio setup. Like from 7.1/5.1 to 2.1 this will make the dialouge clear.

nick_denham

It depends. A frequent problem is when surround sound is downmixed to stereo. if that sounds like your issue then you want to try increase the centre channel (from the surround source) as this generally where your dialogue will be