I started watching "The Umbrella Academy" over the weekend. The show itself is really good, I'm hooked. But watching it brought up a problem I am seeing more and more: volume levels changing depending on the action.
On one hand, I get it. If characters are whispering to each other, that should be quieter than a scene with a lot of gunshots and things blowing up. But what happens a lot for me is I set the volume, then the quiet parts come on and it's too low so I turn up the volume and rewind a bit to not miss the dialog. Then, five minutes later there is a shootout set to music and I'm afraid that I'm going to wake my neighbors. It gets so much louder that I think my TV is broken.
I used to work in music production, and there were a lot of ways we would rectify that, especially when mastering an entire album, because one track might be louder than the others so we have to regulate that. It seems like that is easily available for TV, but I dont think studios are trying to do that. I feel like they are TRYING to have the various sound levels, maybe because it draws attention to the action. All I know is I'm tired of missing barely spoken dialog and then a few minutes later feeling like my eardrums are gonna blow out.
Submitted June 03, 2019 at 05:03PM by TradeMark310 http://bit.ly/2Kni06k
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