American Adventure Audio

[WondersOfLife]

Does anyone else find the audio from The American Adventure show to be kind of muffled? I'm starting to find it difficult to understand many of the lines. When was the last time the attraction was refurbished?

 

[marni1971]

Sounded great last year.

 

[WondersOfLife]

Sounded great last year.

Last July I remember going on my senior trip, and the audio was muffled. Same last February. But not ALL of it. Only certain points.. Perhaps it's just the acoustics in the space.


^^^ Here's a clip. I know it's a video taken of the show, but the muffles from this video are exactly what I remember hearing. I can clearly hear songs and such but when it gets to parts like 7:15 and 10:20 ... Some more sections too. For someone who doesn't know the script backwards and forwards, I just honestly can't understand what they're saying except for a sentence or two.

The whole show isn't muffled. I'm not saying that. But a few scenes are. To me, at least. I was just wondering if anyone else relates. It's legit my favorite thing entirely at EPCOT. But it's so echo-ey

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Last July I remember going on my senior trip, and the audio was muffled. Same last February. But not ALL of it. Only certain points.. Perhaps it's just the acoustics in the space.


^^^ Here's a clip. I know it's a video taken of the show, but the muffles from this video are exactly what I remember hearing. I can clearly hear songs and such but when it gets to parts like 7:15 and 10:20 ... Some more sections too. For someone who doesn't know the script backwards and forwards, I just honestly can't understand what they're saying except for a sentence or two.

The whole show isn't muffled. I'm not saying that. But a few scenes are. To me, at least. I was just wondering if anyone else relates. It's legit my favorite thing entirely at EPCOT. But it's so echo-ey

Annnnnnnd Here's the Segmet's Script from the 7:15 - 10:20 mark....courtsey of Ubmagic.com
Soldier #1:
I shan't spend another night up here.

Soldier #2:
At Least you got shoes mate, there's not a dozen left what can say that.

Soldier #1:
Don't tell me friend.
Tell the good general then.
Tell him that half his camp has typhose, small pox, or dysentery.

Soldier #2:
And there be not a ration amongst us.
Now we can forage for hickory nuts.

Soldier #1:
Aye, while the English overindulge in our Philadelphia's fine food and drink!

Soldier #2:
'Tis a strange world we shoulder, George Washington, Congress sleeps warmly in York.

Soldier #1:
And the British, the British party in Philadelphia.

Soldier #2:
While we freeze or starve to death here in Valley Forge.

*Our next visual is a background of nothing but clouds. The song continues.*

Male Singer:
In the days of Valley Forge,
my lords, forever we must hail
We fight the cold with bags on our feet,
as the lobster backs regail

Oh, the time will come
When they'll be on the run
As their ships will homeward sail.

Oh it's a great delight to march and fight
Along the victory trail...
'Tis a great delight to march and fight
Along the victory trail!


*The paintings of the Revolutionary war end and we now see eastern part of the US, showing the 13 states.*

Ben Franklin:
In the end, we the people, prevailed and achieved perhaps our greatest dream.
Thirteen very different colonies became the United States of America, and we were free to become an entire nation of dreamers and doers.

Mark Twain:
Western bound, Dr. Franklin, to new frontiers!

Ben Franklin:
To the age of Samuel Langhorn Clemens.

*Various images accompany the dialogue, men on horses, indians, a woman with an oxen plow, and a panhandler.*

Mark Twain:
Well, I like to think that Mark Twain was part of all that.

*We hear more music before Mark Twain continues.*

Yes sir, Dr. Franklin, you founding fathers gave us a pretty good start, don't ya know.
We still had some things to learn the hard way.
It seems a whole bunch of folks found out "We the people", didn't yet mean all the people.
Folks like Frederick Douglas.

*As Mark Twain speaks of slavery, the scene changes to the Mississippi River and a raft carrying a black man with a lighted lantern enters from stage right.**

Frederick Douglas:
Even amidst the cricket song here along Mark Twain's beloved Mississippi, I hear the noise of chains and the crack of the whip.
Yet there's hope.
Hope born from the words of Harriet Beacher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin has given our nation a key, which can unlock the slave prison to millions.
Anti-Slavery is no longer a thing to be prevented.
It has grown too abundant to be snuffed out, like a lantern.

 

[Bairstow]

Were you sitting in the same place both times? Maybe the seat you're in affects the audio experience.
I usually just go for the front row on all the animatronic shows.

 

[Chef Mickey]

I'm a bit of an audiophile and do find the audio somewhat strained, as if the volume is actually too high. However, I have no issues in understanding what is said, but I usually sit in the front or second row. That could also contribute to my first issue.

 

[POLY LOVER]

Take your fingers out of your ears!

 

[misterID]

That opening song.....ugghhh