If you are irritated by background music on Dish Network and find it too loud or interfering, then there are certain solutions that you can try to reduce it or even turn it off completely. Below is a guide to assist you in reducing the background music volume in your Dish receiver.
Check Your Audio Settings
First, it is worth making sure that the sound is turned on and there are no volume restrictions. On your Dish receiver go to the audio settings where you will find options such as background music or audio channels.
- First, locate the Dish remote and press the Menu button.
- Select Settings
- Select Audio
- Select Audio Channels
With your cursor, go to the Audio Channels menu and search for an option that says “Music Channels” or something to that effect. This adjust the volume of music played in the background on Dish screens such as the program guide or main menu screen. Perhaps, you should make this option less audible or just turn it off.
You may also see different levels of volume for such things as the “Menu Audio” or “Guide Audio”. Lower or mute these audio channels also if you wish to regulate the background music volume in the particular areas of the Dish interface.
Disable Music Channels
Another way of avoiding music background is by turning off the music channels completely. This will ensure that the background tunes are not played on any Dish related screen again.
Here's how to disable music channels:
- Select Menu > Settings > Preferences
- Select Audio
- Select Enable Music Channels
- Select Disable
After muting the music channels, you should not be able to listen to background music in your Dish receiver menus and guides.
Mute Your Receiver
If you want the background music to be silenced for a short while, you can use the Mute button on your Dish remote.
- Find Mute button at the top of your Dish remote
- Press Mute to turn off all sounds to your receiver.
This will turn down the loudness of the whole environment, the background music channels inclusive. To regain the sound, simply press Mute one more time or adjust the volume levels to normal.
The mute option is good if all you need is a way to stop the background noise while you look for the channels or scroll through your recordings.
Set Volume Limits
Your Dish receiver also has volume limit features that cannot allow the sound to go high. These can be enabled to prevent sudden loudness of the music or other channels from the background.
To adjust the volume limits:
- Scroll to Menu and select it, then navigate to Settings > Audio > Volume Limit
- The first step involves checking the “Enable Volume Limit” box.
- Set the Maximum volume level to the level preferred.
Reducing the maximum volume will also place a constraint on how loud the background music could get, which might reduce it.
You can also try Turning on Night Audio Mode. This reduces the sample of the audio outputs’ dynamic range meaning it limits the loud peaks and bursts. To turn on night mode:
- Click Menu at the top and select the ‘Settings’ option in the dropdown list, then click on ‘Audio’.
- Select Alternate Audio
- Finally, tick the checkbox beside Night Mode.
Customize Your Audio Outputs
The last of the advanced connection options is to set up multiple audio outputs on your Dish receiver. There are settings to change to which speakers specific audio channels are routed
For instance, you can configure your background music and menu audio sources as well as other audio streams to play only through your TV speakers or another set of speakers while your main movie/TV audio keeps pumping through your surround sound speakers at full blast.
Here's how to access custom audio output options:
- From the main Settings menu select the Audio tab and then the Alternate Audio option.
- Choose Playback Device Preferences
- Choose which channels place an output that a given audio channel or a number of audio channels receive.
This takes more setup but allows precise control over your different audio streams.
There are various ways by which you can really minimize and lower the background distracting music in Dish receiver by employing several of these methods. The ability is there to altogether turn it off or to mute only the music channels leaving the rest of the menu audio at levels that are easy on the ears. It may take a little bit of experimenting to get the proper amounts for the mix. However, following the audio settings listed above can assist with loud background music problems.
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