Could they Turn Down the Music?
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Can we turn up the music to drown out these endless complaints about it? 
Can we turn up the music to drown out these endless complaints about it?
Endless? I didn't see anything else on the Front page about it, and you're a week late.
I've had this complaint since this beginning. I love Gold's theme, but I'm not a huge fan of the incidental music to begin with - I find it overbearing, grating and too self-consciously "whimsical." But the main problem is the volume - I'm constantly fiddling with the volume on my remote, turning it down whenever the music blasts so it won't disturb the neighbors!
I just watched the final scene again and dammit if the music doesn't intentionally tug at your heart strings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsVYit2WSsY
It's loud and overly important
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akN5grZsI2I
Or when the clip aired during the NTA awards. All the other nominees must have thought
"fuck"
the moment the overly dramatic music for Tennant's piece came on they knew they weren't going to win
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsVYit2WSsY
It's loud and overly important
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akN5grZsI2I
Or when the clip aired during the NTA awards. All the other nominees must have thought
"fuck"
the moment the overly dramatic music for Tennant's piece came on they knew they weren't going to win
Agreed. I'm always struggling to hear the dialogue in Nu Who over the excessively loud music that plays in every scene. And I'm in my twenties, I ain't a grandpa! I hope Moffatt turns it down a few notches. You don't need music in every scene.
Curiously, I've never had a problem with it, but there are enough people complaining that there is either something to this gripe, or you're all suffering from mass delusion.
So who's at fault here? No pun intended. Is it Murray Gold, the sound editors, or the post-production supervisors?
So who's at fault here? No pun intended. Is it Murray Gold, the sound editors, or the post-production supervisors?
I think it's a combination of all three.
Unless Murray Gold has some say in how loud the music track is on the audio, I can't accept he's to blame. I have hundreds of soundtracks in my collection, and they aren't set at a constant level in their respective movies and TV shows, even though the soundtrack CDs are. Someone adjusts music volume when the whole audio track is put together.
Mass delusion sounds like the perfect explanation.
And while we're at it, can they tone down the bright colors? They hurt my fragile old eyes.
And there are just too many consonants in the scripts. How about using more of those nice-sounding vowels?
I've been finding the comments about the music overpowering the dialogue very interesting. Mainly because on YouTube there are clips of just the music from the final scenes of The End of Time (the regeneration scene and the Eleventh Doctor's scene). The guy that did these tried to present only the music, taking time to remove dialogue and other sound effects. For the most part, he succeeds, but the sounds of the TARDIS exploding can still be heard. According to him, these can't be removed because they in fact overpower the music.
Just a bit of irony I felt like pointing out.
Just a bit of irony I felt like pointing out.
I heard it perfectly, as I do every other line of dialogue in the show.
Would you people actually prefer the auditory wallpaper of modern day Star Trek?
Though I think the volume levels are just fine, this isn't a binary choice. We can have the same music, just slightly less loud, without resorting to horrible doomsday scenarios.
Same here. This is really bizarre, is it possible this is UK-specific? Are those of you who can't hear the lines in the United Kingdom?
I'm in Aus.
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