Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1543070
30 S P R I N G 2 0 2 6 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y The panel "Say What 2: Can You Hear Me Now?" was billed as a follow-up to the previous year's panel of the same name that would discuss if the dialogue intelligibility landscape had changed over the last year. In The Sound Board v5.0's own words, "There are new tools to help us measure subjective dialogue intelligibility, upcoming changes to the broadcast loudness specifications, government regulation, and overall changes in the way that some content creators are having content mixed and delivered." Being a longtime re-recording mixer myself, I have a tremendous interest in this subject matter. All of us doing this for long enough have had to jump through very specific and Say What 2: Can You Hear Me Now? b y P a t r i c k S p a i n C A S sometimes limiting hoops to deliver shows that both sound as good as possible and fit the client's delivery specifications only to hear them when presented to the public and think, "That's not what we did!" What happened?!! We hit the spec, and still the mix sounds … quiet or crushed or it's pumping or the dialogue is hard to make out or the dialogue is much louder then the rest of the mix … and on and on. On top of that, it seems we are constantly fielding questions from friends, family, and the media about how hard it can be to hear what is being said. This can be frustrating to hear given L-R: Brian Slack, Marc Fishman CAS, Jon Greasley CAS MPSE, and Jeffrey Riedmiller.