@@shessometimesdoublechocola5410 Fun, indeed, but I'm probably gonna buy the tower meter. That looked epic, and of literally no practical use.

I think thats due to two reasons. 1. They have no clue how to properly mix audio, and 2. The difference in speaker quality. Headphones vs a cell phone speaker vs regular speakers. A youtuber might have a 3 way speaker that it might sound ok for them, but out of headpones or a cell phone speaker it sounds horrible. I am sure it is more of number 1 but it could be number 2. But im not an audio expert so i could be wrong

TL:DR - Most likely a lack of knowledge of the tools available in most editing software, or not using the _right_ tools, and maybe a little bit of laziness or "editing fatigue." LONG-WINDED VERSION - I think most channels have into/outro sequences that have been "normalized" (volume of entire clip is increased so the highest peak is at 0.0 dB). There's a possibility creators have "normalized" their speech tracks, but a hard "p" sound or some background noise (something thumping on the tabletop or whatever) could be the audio peak for that clip and sets that one sound as the 0.0 dB point. That's the drawback (in my experience) to simple "normalization." If there are no sharp sounds, just low overall volume, normalization works quite well... A better solution is to use an audio level compression filter. Good audio levels can be a challenge, I still struggle with it at times on my channel. My editing software (Vegas Pro 13 if anyone was wondering) has a fairly responsive on-screen VU, and I imagine most editing suites (Premiere, Kdenlive, etc.) have this VU meter function and presumably have some sort of audio level compression as they're fairly basic and important features. Audio compression is a bit fiddly to set it just right, and to be absolutely certain you've set it fairly well, you have to watch the VU for entire clip you're applying the effect to. If you've been watching the same clip over and over as you apply video effects, you tend to be less enthusiastic about repeating the same clip repeatedly to tweak the audio. (I was going to rephrase that last sentence so I wasn't repeating the word repeat repeatedly, but not only was it helping me repeat my repeated point, it enabled me to write this sentence where I am repeating repeat repeatedly...)

in an ideal world, KZfaq would allow for videos with multiple audio tracks recorded, and allow for user-defined mixing of them. Imagine being able to tweak the audio levels of the voice over, background music and even sound effects yourself, especially with Let's Plays.

@@dashcamandy2242 that's exactly what it is. Although there's also a little bit of dynamic range ignorance as well. A song with some decent bass is just going to sound louder when normalized than someone just speaking. I'm a pro audio tech for corporate and conventions (as well as a film grip and electric) and I always have to pull audio tracks back a bit to match them to presenters.

I hate that,too! Dont they watch their video to ensure everything is ok?

Thats awesome

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Add LGR and you got a hurricane ;)

I find your lack of slow-peeling disturbing... ;)

Then they would look like something from an old Sci-fi movie,which ould be cool.

Brundle + fly = Brundlefly

I used to have a 95 honda prelude. The dash in that thing went all the way across the car, and the guages were VFD, it was like starting up a spaceship in a SciFi movie.

"ENJOY THE TINGLY SENSATION!!"

more important than peel it slower is "discharge yourself after peeling covers" because they generate A LOT of ESD which could damage your exposed circuitry (a proper desktop for handling this would be an ESD mat properly grounded along with a wrist strap attached to your hand/ankle

There is an option of replaying at a slow speed...

Put the moan back into Techmoan.

I thought it was the That Peelin' Feelin' crowd more than the ASMR people. The problem with ASMR for me is I can't not laugh at it, now. Of all things I found a furry doing it in fursuit, and he was doing pretty well, but the whole thing was him whispering something like "and I know a few people that like this sound: tsk tsk tsk tsk tsBANG" as his muzzle hits the microphone.

Bit of a wiring nightmare, but having them all on together would be quite a sight indeed.

i had this exact thought watching this one; i really wanna see all of them going at the same time!

@@bwagner23 Yes that would be amazing, and exactly the sort of thing I would do if I could afford all of them

I've got the feeling that Techmoan is already spending half of his time in the dark watching VU meters. And the other half of the time looking at nixie clocks waiting to film it when it shows 13:37. Preferably also in the dark. I guess you could modify a Lixie clock (like that kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8-hgZWYt5e-nqc.html) to add a VU meter mode (the programming language does have a command to read an analogue signal). Just in case someone decides that "party mode" is not enough sensory overload...

Rupert neve consoles?

The only manufacturer who uses laboratory grade VU Meters in their amps which use a meter setting correctly for the music listener to see exactly what constant wattage their using ,and see peak watt demand up to 8,000 watts is Mcintosh ,sadly Mcintosh began putting lab grade VU meters inside of China built meter housings that flex & cause meter failures when amps get hot ,unlike the VU Meter cases on my Mc-1201 monoblocks meter housings being made to survive 100 years,the meter housings on my bothers new Mc-452 are made of cheap plastic thats so thin & affected by heat that the cases warp & cause meter drag,the fix is to replacr a cheaply made meter housing with the same but new cheap housing ,or only use 2 points to attach the meter housing to the faceplate .

Second that.

His electricity meter would probably burn up!!

And we love music. Triple win.

I suppose this is some music from KZfaq free music library? (I'm also on the spectrum.)

@@clray123 Yep, I suppose so

The Grammys also come from an academy: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS for short. So they are also awards from the academy.

I still use winamp as my preferred mp3 player. I don't seem to be able to find an app that is as versatile as it.

+1 for winamp 2.x We built a video wall at work a while ago, bout 3m x 6m, 10mm pitch. Friday afternoon after it was finished, i hung back to have a little play. Beer in hand, l loaded up milkdrop n cranked to workshops hifi. Rather impressive, to put it mildly. The other thing was to fire up Quake. Cos, ya know, if it dosent run quake, whats the point? Unfortunately the boss wouldn't let me keep it.

WinAmp was/is horrible, standard set to loudness, not to talk about the horrible interface with a million skins, none of them any good. Even iTunes is better.

I use foobar2000 with old winamp visualizer plug-ins.

@@MIGHTYcbu Really? Its the only media player that actually acts like a media player. 'Horrible interface'? Like, a 90's cd player? What else does a media player need? Set to loudness? Im not even sure what that means. The EQ is right there to diddle with. I turn it off, digital EQ is folly regardless of platform. Vlc n foobar come close, n i like them both, but when in Windows, its winamp. You say skins like its a neg... i admit, id change a skin to match my desktop back in the day, cant be bothered now. But its just a skin. If you open a skin in image software, its just a big .bmp. lots of plugins, global hotkeys, search that works, a solid playlist system, and a random that is actually random. I beseech you, what media player is better? Itunes and Wmp are both abortions that people have gotten used to, un-aware of better. I admit, winamp works much better if you have a well maintained file structure for your archive. Which you should. And its no good for modern video. Which is why we have vlc. Im not going to try to convert you, but what do you suggest is better than winamp? Id really like to know, everything else ive tried is a pigs ear...