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First Man (2018)

DEMO 0.7 · BUBBLE 4.9 · BOOM 0.1 (with BEQ 8.1). Bass measured on the disc, Atmos. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Drama, History.

First Man (2018) poster
Front
52%
L45%
54%
R45%
100%
C82%
LFE
12%
LFE17%
Surround
25%
Ls26%
25%
Rs26%
9%
Lrs20%
9%
Rrs20%
Wide
1%
Lw2%
1%
Rw2%
Height
1%
Ltf5%
2%
Rtf6%
2%
Ltm2%
2%
Rtm3%
0%
Ltr1%
0%
Rtr1%

Bar and top figure — level against the film’s most active channel. Bottom figure — share of the runtime the channel carries signal.

DEMO
0.7 / 10
Bubble
4.9 / 10
Boom, as released
0.1 / 10
Boom with BEQ
8.1 / 10
Measured release
Disc · Atmos · chart by aron7awol
Deep bass peak, 10–30 Hz
-53.2 dBFS · with BEQ -18.9
Depth, 10–20 vs 30–60 Hz
-35.8 dB · with BEQ +4.8
Average level, 10–30 Hz
-78.3 dBFS · with BEQ -44.0
Minutes of deep bass
0 min · with BEQ 29 min at ≥ −30 dBFS
Filtered release
its BEQ restores up to 48.4 dB at 10–20 Hz
Tomatometer
87% · as of 10 Oct 2024
Metascore
84 / 100 · as of 30 Aug 2025
Chart scale read
-10 to -69.8 dBFS
Height uptime
1.3%
LFE uptime
6.7% (shown, not scored)
Dynamic range
45.8 dB
Channels used
16 of 16
Genres
Drama, History
Tags
biographical, drama
Audio
Atmos, DD+ 5.1
Released
10 Oct 2018
First listed
4 Dec 2018
Sources
PerceptualPro + BEQ
Render
older, corrected

Channel by channel, through the film

One lane per speaker, the whole film from left to right. Bar height is how loud that speaker gets (square-root scale against this film's loudest moment, so quiet passages stay visible). The amber line under a lane marks the moments counted as playing, and the figure on the right is their share of the film. For the six height speakers that share is part of BUBBLE.

Front
L
45%
R
45%
C
82%
LFE
LFE
17%
Surround
Ls
26%
Rs
26%
Lrs
20%
Rrs
20%
Wide
Lw
2.0%
Rw
2.1%
Height
Ltf
4.9%
Rtf
6.1%
Ltm
2.1%
Rtm
2.5%
Ltr
1.0%
Rtr
1.1%
0:001:112:21

Read from PerceptualPro's channel-activity graph, pixel by pixel. A lane marked unused never rises out of its line.

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