GCN Are low voices in gc games normal?

[Zense]

Hi,

I've been playing gamecube games on the wiiu through Nintendont and I've noticed that voices are very low/silent compared to the background sound/music. I've especially noticed it in Super Mario Sunshine and Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance. I question if it has to do with me playing it through Nintendont or if it's my tv's speakers?

I'd like to hear anyone's views/opinions on this and I could eventually post some recordings/if not just verify myself with dolphin.

Oh, I also noticed it in Over the Hedge while playing it on a different tv through both a wii and wiiu using Nintendont, but I thought it was just because it's a cheap licensed game that the sound seemed to be mixed so poorly. Often you couldn't hear the voices because the background music was louder. I guess I could doublecheck these games with my ps2 to see if the audio is any different.

 

[Gamer90Kirby]

I think I remember this happening with Super Mario Sunshine when I played my physical copy through the Wii. I just assumed that it was how it was supposed to be.

 

[Ryccardo]

It could be called by accidental noise cancellation (if one speaker has reversed polarity, stereo is downmixed to mono, or more complicated equivalents for 3+ audio channels) depending on how the way the voice is encoded (with regards to phase and left/right position)

 

[Zense]

It could be called by accidental noise cancellation (if one speaker has reversed polarity, stereo is downmixed to mono, or more complicated equivalents for 3+ audio channels) depending on how the way the voice is encoded (with regards to phase and left/right position)

I guess an easy way to check this is to connect headphones to the wii u gamepad and check how voices are.

Also my sony bravia tv is set to output in some virtual surround setup. I could try switching that.

I also thought this was just the way it was supposed to sound, but I feel like it doesn't make any sense when I consider the sound on earlier consoles like dreamcast and ps2, surely the gamecube must have better sound than the dreamcast?

I could try to run sound in Mario Sunshine in Mono instead of Stereo to see if anything changes.

 

[Zense]

I just tested Mario Sunshine and Baldur's Gate while using the wii u gamepad with earbud earphones and the voices are clearly distinct and the sound is a lot better, so essentially it means my tv speakers suck, but maybe I need to turn off that surround setting. I'll test it when it's daytime tomorrow and hopefully it means I'll get a bit better sound from the tv than this. I eventually plan on getting proper stereo and front speakers for my setup in the near future, though.