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Recently I just watched a DVD with EXTREME hiss in some scenes coming from the center channel whenever dialogue was present. It was clearly being expanded downward between lines. Let's just say this film was about clocks and orphans. Anybody else notice this?
It's highly possible the tone wasn't detectable on the stage if it was large enough to be running an X-Curve. And thus if the film wasn't re-mixed for DVD/BluRay as they normally are, it's possible that tone which was always present is now audible in a near-field/mid-field home theater environment. Don't know this for a fact, could be a possibility though.
It was just for reference :), I don't think that is the explanation either. However, it's useful to know it is a feature film.... Films are usually mixed in environments similar to those of a movie theatre; if I am not wrong, speakers in theaters usually don't go up very high in the frequency spectrum, they are quite dull, so it very probable that the hiss that you can hear in those frequencies wasn't very, or maybe at all audible in the mixing stage, so maybe they didn't re-mixed it for the DVD release and that's why you get some hiss, specially if you are listening in some -pretty good- quality monitors.
Was the hiss noticeable during the louder parts, too? Or just soft parts. Could be a result of improper dither. Compressing audio for DVD, you have to dither down to 12 or 16 bit, which can cause an audible hiss in the lower levels. Just a thought. My guess is residual tape hiss if it's an older film that's been put to DVD without re-mastering (as was mentioned) if not that.
Or maybe it's all about the original location sound recording :)There is so much needed to be done while shooting. Muting HMIs, Camera noise, HD noise of RED and such, killing reverbs etc... And sometimes location recording team don't get the chance to do their job properly, unfortunately.And maybe those productions don't appreciate clean dialog so much that they'd ADR such problematic scenes...
I've noticed this as well in certain films, big and small budget. Generally seems to only happen when dialogue is played, which leads me to believe it is from the location sound. I've even once noticed it only for one actors dialogue. Seems like it would be easy to filter out with a narrow band eq or a noise remover plugin. Then again if your hearing doesn't exceed 12K, you're not getting that information.
I've only read the original Dracula once, but I don't recall any instance of the Count hissing in that seminal vampire novel. Nor does he do so in any of the plethora of novels about Dracula by Fred Saberhagen -- I've read most of those twice.
Anything newer than those is probably invalid in this context, as novels including vampires since the early 1980s are probably mostly inspired by movies, TV spoofs, or otherwise unrelated to Stoker's original character.
There's confirmation in comments to the question that Bela Lugosi appears to hiss when a cross is brandished at him -- presumably to convey the pain of exposure to this Christian holy symbol -- and he was the first Dracula in a talkie film (1931). Max Schreck, as Count Orlok, chewed the scenery in Nosferatu in 1922, but even if he did hiss, he couldn't be heard, because at that time film wasn't capable of carrying sound.
Not long before the end of the Hammer Films horror line, Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis) appeared as one of the first "silly" vampires -- but I don't recall him hissing, either. Later silly vampires (Love at First Bite with George Hamilton as the Count, for instance) seem easy to dismiss, a they were played for laughs, not scares, and anything later is either a romance (Twilight) or a spoof, until Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman (seemingly based largely on The Dracula Tapes by Saberhagen) -- in which I also don't recall Dracula hissing, though it's possible one or more of the three vampire women at his castle did so.
Sir Hiss is a major antagonist in Disney's 1973 animated feature film Robin Hood. He is Prince John's snake advisor and assistant. Hiss has the power of hypnosis, which he uses to send King Richard on a crusade, thus allowing himself and Prince John to rule over England.
Sir Hiss is the snake henchman of Prince John. He often attempts to warn Prince John of the dangers of his various traps but is rarely listened to. After a failed plan, Sir Hiss often complains about how Prince John didn't listen to him, but he is usually punished as a result. He is often the target of Prince John's temper tantrums, which he usually tries to halt by reminding Prince John about his mother, which never works. Sir Hiss is often compared to Kaa from the film The Jungle Book, as they share similar appearances as well as hypnotic powers. He is just as heartless as his boss saying that he has an absolute skill for encouraging contributions. Nonetheless, he does have some degree of morality, as evidenced by his horror that Prince John was willing to have Friar Tuck, a man of the church, be executed (though mostly because such an act against clergy at the time would warrant retribution from the church), even if it was to lure Robin Hood out of hiding. A running gag throughout the movie is Hiss hissing in Prince John's ear.
Sir Hiss is somewhat immature and pompous, as seen when with his interactions with Little John when the latter was taking a seat in the royal box with Prince John. Hiss also seems to dislike being called names (and took particular offense when Little John called him "Buster").
Sometime before the events of the film, Sir Hiss helped Prince John usurp the throne of England from the rightful king, King Richard. Sir Hiss hypnotized the king into going off on a crusade, allowing Prince John to take the crown in his absence. Sir Hiss then traveled with Prince John from town to town, as the greedy Prince taxed the towns into poverty.
At the time of the film, Sir Hiss is accompanying Prince John to their next stop, the town of Nottingham. During their ride, after briefly reminding Prince John about his mom (causing him distress), he briefly attempts to hypnotize Prince John to help relax him, but John catches on and tells him not to do that. They are then stopped by fortune tellers, who are actually Robin Hood and Little John in disguise. Sir Hiss attempts to warn Prince John that the "fortune tellers" may actually be bandits, but Prince John laughs off the idea of female bandits. After seeing the fortune tellers successfully steal Prince John's rings from under his nose, he once again tries to get the Prince's attention, but the annoyed Prince stuffs Hiss into a basket and sits on it. Nonetheless, Hiss does attempt to prevent John's money from being stolen by Hood, swatting his hand. By the time Hiss escapes from the basket, Prince John (as he embarrassingly admitted) has been robbed of everything, including his red royal robe, with John in nothing but his underwear. After their carriage fell apart while pursuing Robin Hood and Little John (due to the latter stealing the golden hubcaps holding the wheels together), Sir Hiss begins to lecture the prince and is hit with a mirror for his efforts, despite warning the prince that breaking it would mean seven years of bad luck. Hiss is able to get back at the Prince by reminding Prince John that the mirror belonged to his mother.
Sir Hiss's next appearance is at Prince John's archery tournament. Though he initially sits in the royal box, Prince John dismisses him after becoming enamored with "Sir Reginald" (actually Little John in disguise). Sir Hiss is secretly tasked with looking for Robin Hood. Sir Hiss hides in a balloon, and by flying about, discovers that a stork archer is actually Robin Hood in disguise. Unfortunately, before he can report this news, he is shot down and stuffed in an ale barrel by Friar Tuck and Alan-A-Dale, who have been following Hiss. He remains in there until after Robin Hood has escaped and Prince John releases him after hearing Hiss singing from within the barrel. He belatedly, and drunkenly, informs Prince John of his findings but is tied to a post as a result (as Prince John evidently had already found out by the time he told him), daring him to get himself out of it if he can.
Hiss appears next in a short scene, counting taxes for Prince John. He briefly sings the song mocking Prince John, after hearing of it from the Sheriff of Nottingham, but quickly stops after Prince John comes in the room, demanding the taxes to be doubled in retaliation to the song as well as other humiliations placed by Robin Hood.
Later, he is seen attempting to cheer up an angry Prince John, after most of the town has been imprisoned for defaulting on taxes, with the news of Friar Tuck's arrest. Though Prince John initially snaps in fury immediately after hearing that, bellowing that he would only feel better if he heard that Robin Hood had been arrested, he realizes that the Friar would make good bait for Robin Hood and orders the hanging of the Friar, an order even Hiss is shocked at because the Prince is sinking so deep to catch Robin Hood that he is intending to hang a member of the Catholic Church to do so, which carries the risk of alienating themselves from Rome and the Pope if they learned of it.
During the jailbreak attempt by Robin Hood and Little John the night before the Friar is to be hanged, Hiss is shown sleeping in Prince John's bedroom. He briefly wakes after being kicked by the prince's foot, but is lulled back to sleep by Robin Hood. But later the sound of Prince John sucking his thumb awakens him, which allows Hiss to discover Robin escaping with the gold, and Hiss attempts to grab onto the gold with his mouth. As his tail is wrapped around Prince John's foot, the two are dragged out onto the balcony. Hiss then appears after Robin Hood escapes, pointing out the outlaw's survival after John thought Robin had drowned. Hiss then goes into a lecture about how Prince John's traps never work and ends by pointing out the damage to Prince John's mother's castle, as it had been set ablaze earlier by the Sheriff trying to catch Robin Hood. This makes Prince John snap, and in a fit of madness, sucks his thumb once again and chases Hiss all through the castle, trying to hit him with a wooden stick and calling him derogatory names, while Hiss screams for help, shouting that Prince John has "gone stark-raving mad".
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