turn down the damn background music!

[dottybooboo22]

Does anyone else find this annoying?
Settling down to watch a drama on the box only to find i can't hear a lot of what they're saying, between the mumbling and the much too loud "background" music, i find it hard work...straining to hear what's going on!

Some of the main culprits were 'Tabu' with Tom Hardy and 'Ripper Street' with Matthew Mcfadden. while I just love gazing at both these lovely men, occasionally i'd like a clue as to what they're actually saying!

I find myself putting the subtitles on more and more these days and that's fine when i'm actually watching but if i've recorded it, the subtitle facility doesn't work!

Does anyone else think the same as i do? that we should be able to actually hear what's being said!

Completely agree. BBC seem to be the worse for this. I have to sit with the remote in my hand constantly adjusting the volume. Blasting background music along with mumbled dialogue. It drives me mad.

I find with TV shoes that the background music doesn't necessarily drown out the actors' voices, but instead the dialogue is very quiet in general so I have to turn TV up. Then music or sound effects come on and it sounds like a complete racket coming out my TV and I'm diving for the remote to turn it back down...only to have to turn it back up 15 seconds later to hear the dialogue again. 🙄

i think it's a bit of both of these things, a lot of shows that are supposed to be "moody" often has people almost whispering their lines which in turn is completely overshadowed by the "background" music.

i know theatre and tv are different but don't people learn how to project their voices these days?

for theatre they have to but you'd think with today's sound systems that it would be no problem in tv programmes to pick up on the vocals and to tone down the music.

it's a question of balance i suppose and getting it right.

i'm the same with the remote, constantly altering the volume and then i usually resort to putting the subtitles on, especially late at night when others are trying to sleep.

It does seem to be particularly bad on the BBC.

Even on things like Masterchef with absolutely mental, suspense-building/incidental music played on Bontempi organs by fruitcakes getting louder and bloody louder and faster and faster and what with Greg Wallace shouting like a Cockney on speed - the whole thing is mental.