Is it just me, or have the routine sound effects in commercials become so loud as to be annoyingly overbearing. You know, like footsteps in gravel or on concrete, drinking, eating, phones/pagers, keyboard and mouse clicks…
I know that commercial audio tracks are usually highly compressed so as to sound apparently louder while remaining at the same volume level as typical TV programming. But I also think that sound effects are often so accute in commercials that they don’t sound realistic at all.
I don’t mind that there are people who get paid to create fake sounds for every actual sound you hear on TV and in movies, just turn it down a little. Less is more.
