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by mjgoeke 1662 days ago
In 5.1/7.1 audio mixes, the center channel is the magic channel with the dialogue.

It gives plenty of control. It's pretty great in practice.

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Yeah but that messes up the balance, ie character moves from left to right - it is quiet, then LOUD, then quiet.

I guess upping the center channel is an ok solution in practice because this doesn't happen very often, but DTS:X and Dolby TrueHD do actually support a separate dialog object that you can adjust the volume of independently, but AFAIK there are no actual movie titles that are mixed to make use of this feature.

Until people don't have a center speaker hooked up.