Author: |Posted: 5:31 pm on 09/06/09
Category: Blog
We have a small but steady number of complaints about the levels of background music in certain programmes that appear to be drowning out the commentary for some viewers. A recent post on this website about the background music levels in Time Team: The Secrets of Stonehenge led me to a very knowledgeable person indeed – the series editor for Time Team was trained as a sound engineer at the BBC so he was able to explain to me in some detail how background music levels are set and what can go wrong between the perfect conditions of a recording studio and the ears of the viewer at home.
