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D Boss

Yes, this is a good episode. And while it's somewhat out of place due to FOX canceling the show, it's still an important story element. I have two suggestions of a purely technical nature on your "reaction videos": 1) please hit pause before you blurt out comments! We or some viewing are watching the show as well as your reaction... and no one can adequately listen to dialogue and talk at the same time - hence you do miss critical dialogue - often. This show is incredibly detailed and sophisticated with multiple threads that extend the entire series length - it is masterful writing - it's a shame to dilute or miss critical story elements or hints because you are talking during the dialogue. I've watched the entire thing many times and still I catch little tidbits from early episodes that have meaning later on.... that I missed before, even when paying full attention. 2) you and most other reaction authors seem to have a common problem or issue with the audio levels. Your voice is about 10x louder than the show audio - and it's REALLY frustrating to have to turn up my volume to 100% just to be able to barely hear the show, then your voice is wayyyy too loud! I am not sure if this issue is due to you and others all wearing headphones or ear buds (so you don't hear your own voice's volume the same) or if it's due to simply failing to adjust the two volume streams accordingly. I would think you actually listen/watch your videos after composing them - don't you notice this huge mismatch in volumes? Surely you can adjust the relative volume accordingly. Most O/S have a mixer for mic vs played media - and depending on how you record and edit - you can put the two audio streams on separate tracks and adjust their volumes to match.

nostalgicgirl

Hi D Boss, thank you so much for your suggestions. I do try to pause if I'm going to go on a rant but I guess I forget at times. I'll try and be more aware of that. As for the volume, I have adjusted it since some people have suggested the opposite. To be honest I don't notice it so perhaps I'm used to the levels? Who knows. >< I'm sorry that its been frustrating and will try and make some adjustments to make this a better experience for you.

D Boss

Thanks for responding to my suggestions. My concern about audio levels is not subjective, it based on the real physics of sound. I captured the audio from the first 35 seconds of your video above and rendered the actual waveform/level graph. I did a screen capture video of this to show you the actual audio levels you are recording (which are 10 to 50 times louder than the show). It's on a private YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGOOCS65_r4 Using laptop or smart phone speakers, or ear buds are notoriously bad at reproducing accurate sound quality and levels. Some systems even have "dynamic level algorithms" to try to adjust audio levels to a rather muddy average volume, instead of the actual dynamic range recorded. Those wanting louder commentary - well the problem is on their end, and ramping up your voice record volume is only making a huge mismatch in the recorded volume and problematic for those using accurate sound producing devices. (good speakers or headphones) You shouldn't have to cater to people with lousy sound devices, or to me for that matter - you should simply attempt to record sound levels as accurately and reasonably as possible. Most video editors have waveform/level views in the audio tracks, or windows or mac have audio mixers to gauge the relative volume levels of mic's and other audio tracks. So I would set the record levels objectively. (and get a good set of headphones) https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/blogs/earbuds-vs-over-the-ear-headphones-which-should-you-use