“I love the story, and the acting is good, too. No complaints about the drama or fiction or anything like that.
But I can’t overlook the fact that every time I listen to the show, I have to constantly adjust the volume. The guys who are making the podcast within the podcast, the ones who read the ads—they’re always way louder than whatever was just happening in the story, and they often star their spiel with an exclamation, like “Heeey!!” or similar. It’s jarring and physically unpleasant, considering that I have to turn the rest of the show up most of the time. Sometimes Hannah’s monologues are reeeeally quiet, esp compared to other characters, and sometimes they’re louder. These kinds of volume issues happen for almost all characters, across scenes and within the same scene (ie it’s not just Hannah who is too loud or too quiet).
If these volume issues are production choices, I don’t get the choice. If I had my way, they would rerelease the whole thing with the volume balanced better. Sometimes I’m listening on a speaker as opposed to headphones, and maybe that’s the issue; they highly recommend listening on headphones, but if they sound-designed the show in a way that makes it an unpleasant chore to listen to without headphones....well...I think that’s a mistake.
Like I said, I have no complaints about the storyline or acting, but I hate that I have to keep me finger on the volume button in order to listen.”
Lentziewentzie via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/23/21