Defaults for sound events - please be less noisy

[Andreas Schildbach]

Alexandre Strube wrote:

> Interesting thing is, the sound theme is LOUD. Put some audio cds and it
> will be preety much louder than most of them. This is the worst thing.
> Perhaps if the sound events volume could be controlled apart from the
> rest of system volume.

Music and movies are mixed in a way so "normal" sounds (like narration 
or vocals) only use approx. 70% of the dynamic range. The rest is kept 
as "headroom" for really loud parts like explosions etc.

Computer sound however traditionally could not afford to waste precious 
bits when sounds had only 8 bits per sample. So just about every sound 
was maxing out the dynamic range. Unfortunately, this behaviour was not 
changed when migrating to 16 bits per sample.

Regards,

Andreas