I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl Maybe slightly too loud, but certainly not unwatchable, I'd say.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
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@randahl even as a native English speaker I found it hard. I can follow everything but it’s very distracting.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
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@randahl The music is not too loud. It is unnecessary though.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl For me the music was too loud as well. At times, it was hard to focus on your voice. I was listening through headphones. Maybe that made things even worse.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl I have normal hearing and could hear your voice without much trouble. But people with hearing problems should not be excluded. I am not a big fan of background music in general, usually I find them annoying. Keep the music, but limit it to intro, outro and interludes.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl Remark: I have generally huge problems filtering voices from background sound. This video requires significantly more effort than other videos (e.g. Anders Puck Nielsen latest).
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl For me it is unwatchable, the music is too distracting. I am no native speaker and to understand what you say while at the same time trying to tune out the music is difficult.
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@randahl For me the music was too loud as well. At times, it was hard to focus on your voice. I was listening through headphones. Maybe that made things even worse.
@cgudrian in my experience, headphones is the easy route, so hearing it on a tv or a phone would have been even worse.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
I don't understand the point of background music to a narration/monologue - do you force people to listen to your choice of music when you're having a conversation with them?
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl@mastodon.social I can hear you just fine, however the music IS a little bit loud to the point where it's distracting. -
I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl maybe just upload a version without music to a platform without algorithms, like a peertube instance. Would be cool anyway to be able to watch your videos without using big tech.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
@randahl maybe they should increase the center speaker volume?
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
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@randahl can’t you just edit the video and “duck” the music track?
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@randahl I have normal hearing and could hear your voice without much trouble. But people with hearing problems should not be excluded. I am not a big fan of background music in general, usually I find them annoying. Keep the music, but limit it to intro, outro and interludes.
@jantzen for the longest time, my thinking was exactly what you just wrote: No music while talking. However, last year I began making a serious sound track to each video with both music and sound effects, and I suddenly saw my videos go from 2000 views to 90000 views.
That progress is hard to ignore.
But obviously, the mix must work for everyone, and as the comments clearly show, I have not hit the mark this time.
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@randahl maybe just upload a version without music to a platform without algorithms, like a peertube instance. Would be cool anyway to be able to watch your videos without using big tech.
@kleisli when I upload to YouTube, I earn a salary for this full time job, which allows me to pay my bills. If you know a way I can pay my bills by uploading to Peertube, please let me know.
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@randahl maybe they should increase the center speaker volume?
@aho I can do that in my mix. Apparently I just did not do this enough this time.
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@randahl can’t you just edit the video and “duck” the music track?
@Catawu YouTube only has some very basic tools for editing a video after upload. For instance, I can blur a section, if there is an image which must be blurred, or I can cut away an entire section of a video.
As far as I know, there is no mixer tool that allows me to gently lower the volume of the music in specific areas.
I can delete the video, and upload an improved version. But then I lose all the views and positive comments.
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@kleisli when I upload to YouTube, I earn a salary for this full time job, which allows me to pay my bills. If you know a way I can pay my bills by uploading to Peertube, please let me know.
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I have had around 15 users comment on my new video, "The narcissist", that the background music is too loud, making it hard for them to hear me.
I need to know how many are affected by this. If this is a widespread problem, I may have to delete the video, and create an improved version. This is a problematic choice, at it will make less viewers watch the new video, which will likely make YouTube think the new video is not interesting.
Please participate in this poll:
It depends on the sound system, or the TV set. Some might watch on a phone or laptop, and they have their own problems with frequency peaks from tiny speakers.
My TV (LG) has a dozen sound modes and on most your music was distracting. When Trump speaks he's clear because his audio is probably compressed. But your audio has dynamic range so is more affected by the music.
One solution to cover all these viewer variables is to use less distracting music. Soft and continuous, almost subliminal. Some movies and TV shows get it just right. Others indeed make the speech almost impossible to hear - one of my gripes.
PS: I've a 5/1 amp and speaker system hanging off the LG TV, which is my VDU for the PC, which also feeds movies and TV shows to it. When the 'mood' music gets too much, the only cure is to use high quality headphones rather than the speakers.
