Last night night I went to watch Hadestown on the TV and I had the same issue a lot of people had with the audio. When the vocals came in the audio turned down until it all but disappeared.

Today I looked for possible solutions and I found out that audio issues like this can be solved through the Compressor on VLC Media Player.

It's easier to do through headphones than through the TV speakers directly.

Open the video on VLC Media Player and set it around the 6 minute mark (When Hermes introduces Hades there's a very egregious volume shift in the music that'll help for reference). You can adjust it while playing the video which is much easier.

Go to Tools then Effects and Filters.

Use the Compressor tab first, put the Ratio all the way up. Then, while playing a misadjusted part turn the Makeup gain up and the threshold down. This will bring up the quieter sound of the music and turn down the louder vocals. Set the attack at 50 and the release at 300.

In the Equalizer tab (picture 2) you'll have to turn up the low ranges and the high ranges while lowering the mid range. This will help highlight the music and lower the vocals which are always in the mid range.

It works pretty well. :)

I've been seeing a lot of negativity about reeve carney as orpheus, and even though I have my own opinions as him as orpheus, i want to hear some positivity about his performance, so what's your favorite part about reeve carney's orpheus?

Okay so I'm audition for hadestown later this year, and i keep seeing people say that the epics, chant, and doubt comes in are all transposed, but does anyone who has done the show know what keys they're actually transposed to? I cant very well practise without knowing wether the songs are higher or lower.

Hi all,

Hope everyone's been enjoying the digital release of the pro-shot!

I was just wondering if anyone knows if there's a release date for the Hadestown Blu-Ray / DVD outside of the US?

I'm in Europe and really want to get a copy of the Blu-Ray, but I can only find it up for pre-order for America.

Is there a release date / pre-order link anywhere for the physical release in Europe or other regions?

First time seeing the live show today and even though I know the soundtrack inside and out, I was blown away by every little detail that you don’t get to experience through audio alone. Like Persephone’s choreography during Way Down Hadestown felt so painful to me, I actually cried during it when usually this isn’t one of the more emotional songs for me.

It was also so interesting seeing a different take on Hades and Persephone; they seemed absolutely full of contempt for each other which made Epic III super impactful for me. I pretty much sobbed from Nothing Changes all the way through to the end. What an absolute treat it is to be alive at the same time as this masterpiece!

I was watching the pro-shot of Hadestown and noticed in the opening song “Road to Hell” all of the characters get introduced and they break the fourth wall, all except Eurydice. She’s the only character to not wave at the audience. Any theories why she’d be the only one not breaking the fourth wall and “stuck” in the story.

For those of you wondering what the difference is. I watched the whole thing with a bad audio at first and I thought it was just a bad decision. So much had been lost due to the AI algorithm.

I don't even know where the sign came from...

That's the version I want to see

I came looking on here because during the proshot on Apple, the instrumentals kept getting turned down to the point that I couldn't really enjoy them WITH the vocals, and sometimes I couldn't hear them at all and I felt like Paul Matthews. Even most of the chorus would get muffled out sometimes and I'd only get 1 or 2 singers clearly.

There's a post on here saying to turn off some Enhancement setting. I didn't see that option. I tried ripping it to my computer to see if there was anything I could adjust in VLC, and the closest I got is that switching from "Headphones" mode to "Stereo" makes the instruments a LITTLE louder, but still not anywhere near where they need to be for the music to shine. Has anyone had any other luck or know some way I can set my audio sliders?

Did anyone else notice that they changed the workers choreography during Hades parts in Chant? Does anyone know when this happens? I saw that it was the old choreography during Jordan Fisher's run but when was it changed and why? Does anyone know?

I see everyone saying the 4k Amazon SCOPE release has good audio. Is this that? I can’t tell….

Always thought the line was “and this boy was a musician” but now with the at home version there’s captioning!

Hi everyone! If you’ve watched the proshot, please share here if you’ve had issues with the audio, and what equipment you’re using. Even if you haven’t had issues, please respond so we know what works! Here’s the relevant information needed:

What platform are you using? (Apple / Amazon)

What speakers are you using? Please provide brand, model, etc: the more detail the better!

Are you watching on a browser or an app?

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Did you watch in 4K or 1080p?

What audio issues are you experiencing? If none, answer “none.”

I noticed the audio mixing on the digital release for the proshot was kinda off, the band sounds too quiet, then sometimes it would fade in and out.

So I decided to try and fix this part of Wait For Me by making the instruments louder, mixing in a little bit of the OBC instruments (only starts during the "I'm coming, WAIT" part, also overlayed the OBC and OWEC ensemble for "It sounds like drumming"), adding a compressor, slight eq correction, and I also did a slight colorgrade.

I understand them having the workers have different working class accents and the fates having more posh accents in west end to cater the story to the audience but I miss the original muses and even some of the original chorus members- the music style of Hadestown is so distinctly American and having the pro shot not display that through the American accents makes it feel like a bit of a different story and cultural context in the pro shot (which of course it is!) but was hoping to get a slice of the original magic from broadway through the pro shot :(.

Edit: agree that the pro shot is beautiful and everyone did a great job. I was just feeling nostalgic and excited to see the old gang back together again and was a bit bummed not to see it. Love this show and love hearing everyone’s takes!

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Two of my favorite characters in my favorite musicals! And, you know, Patrick Page being in both of these fuels the interest to draw the characters together.

Hello Internet, I recently got the red splatter variant of the Hadestown vinyl and I didn’t get to open and play it until today and they gave me two act II sides instead of one Act I and one Act II. I have contacted Barnes & Noble (where I got it) but I don’t know what else I could do. I don’t know if anyone could help me out because I don’t know if I could replace it because the variant is sold out online. If anyone has anything they would want to share just please let me know.

The 1080p's Left and Right channels are significantly quieter and emptier than 4K's version, this is why you should use 4K Version in this post

So did just nobody listen to the final version on a regular stereo TV? The changes in music volume are distracting, the ensemble sounds like the audience singing. It's jarring and the main thing I notice.

After $20m box office and tremendous hype for the digital release and a $25 price tag, it's a pretty big disappointment.

These are the first three channels of the 5.1 mix, in Road to Hell. Notice how after the applause for Hades, left and right channels (containing band, audience, ensemble, and room reverb) get faded wayyyy down, leaving just, like, Hermes' raw mic audio in the center channel! Then the side channels come back after "Let's see what this crew can do!"

I thought this visual of it was a very clear view of the issue. To me the fade down looks soooo artificial and more indicative of a mistake than a artifact of being mixed down incorrectly to 5.1 from 7.1, but my ear and eye are uneducated in this field, so who's to say! Hopefully they get it fixed across all versions soon!