Volume control is what we’re talking about loud and clear here.

Consumption habits needed for NBC’s presentation of the 2016 Rio Summer Games may need to change if you’re still stuck in the prime-time mode of waiting for results and commentary, starting with preliminary soccer matches before Friday’s Opening Ceremony and marching up to the Closing Ceremonies on Aug. 21.

By the numbers, NBC’s plans are to produce a record 6,755 hours of coverage. That’s about an average of 356 hours a day, spread over 19 days, or about as long as it still takes to process the menu at the Cheesecake Factory.

Instead of looking at this as some huge all-you-can-ingest buffet, think healthy and think smaller portions. And turn off all electronic devices if simplicity is what’s desired.

Because based on how NBC did with the 2012 Games in London, where it combined for 5,535 hours and declared it to be “the most watched television event in U.S. history,” there’s no incentive to dial anything back. Not when you compare how these Games will have 40 times more NBC hours than what Atlanta had 20 years ago.

“This will be the biggest media event in history,” NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus says simply.

The numbers back it up, on every conceivable communications platform. Factoring in sleep, work and beach time, consider the options of controlling this voluminous endeavor:

• The old-fashioned NBC prime-time, tie-it-in-a-bow most-often delayed presentation: If ratings didn’t feed into this formula, it would have been scrapped years ago and reconfigured. Instead, NBC had 217 million viewers for the 2012 Games, passing the 215 million that tuned in for 2008 in Beijing, according to Nielsen’s counters.

Los Angeles did a rather modest 18.8 rating and 35 share during the 2012 games, 23rd among the 56 metered markets and just above the national average of 17.5/30. But it’s not about us.

On most days, NBC’s primetime (hosted by Bob Costas) runs with edited coverage from 8 p.m. to midnight, across all time zones. Daytime (hosted by Al Michaels, Dan Patrick and Rebecca Lowe) also goes delayed from 10 a.m. (after the “Today” show) to 5 p.m. (a break for local news). A late-night window (hosted by Ryan Seacrest) appears after the “Tonight” show from 12:35-to-1:35 a.m., and an edited replay of everything goes from 1:35 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.

If NBC has anything live, it’ll likely be by accident, or a rare weekend thing — such as men’s or women’s basketball finals — but it will take special arranging.

Of the 260-plus planned hours on NBC, the usual high-demand offerings of gymnastics, swimming and track and field take precedence (some of which will be live in the East), followed by diving, beach volleyball and indoor volleyball, and then the usual travel log and features on athletes overcoming tremendous odds as told by Mary Carillo or Jimmy Roberts.

If this format remains your primary plan of attack, “spoiler alerts” will be much more difficult to manage.

• The expanded cable offerings: NBCSN (330 hours) is the main fallback for as much as possible on Team USA — specifically women’s soccer and men’s and women’s basketball, plus boxing, cycling, archery, rugby, shooting, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling. Liam McHugh and Carolyn Manno are on the distribution of information here.

USA Network (110 ½ hours), dormant for the London Games, comes back with MSNBC (78 ½ hours) and CNBC (42 hours).

For the sport-specific channels, Bravo (94 ½ hours) takes on tennis through the women’s and men’s final Aug. 13-14. Thankfully, Pat O’Brien isn’t anywhere near this venue as he was in London; Dave Briggs and Brett Haber have it down. And Golf Channel (115 hours) has the greens fees covered for the revived men’s (Aug. 11-14) and women’s (Aug. 17-20) events.

Telemundo/NBC Universo (273 1/2 hours) have Spanish-language of everything, with a focus on Mexico’s men’s soccer team (the U.S. men’s team did not qualify). A specialty channel for soccer and basketball has also been offered by NBCUniversal that adds up to 779 hours, depending on how your TV providers make it available.

• The dogged digital streaming experience: Comcast chairman Brian Roberts says the company looks at the planned 6,700-plus hours as “an opportunity to redefine how people get content that they want.” The Olympics are the usual prime testing grounds.

From NBCOlympics.com, launched for the 2000 Sydney Games, events stream live from 8 a.m. until midnight. Cable or dish TV authentication is needed unless you’re a cable cutter and have learned to go rogue.

Some 4,500 hours are digitally accessible on the website and the NBC Olympics app (check iTunes, Google Play, Windows, Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire). That’s up from 3,500 in London, when NBC Olympic Digital reported nearly 2 billion page views and 159 million video streams, as well as record-setting engagement time. U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas was the most-clicked athlete at NBCOlympics.com in 2012 with more than 23 million views.

Other apps with access to results and video are the official Rio 2016 app, the official IOC app and the newsworthy NBC app.

• Social media: NBC’s new deals with Facebook, Instagram, Buzzfeed and Snapchat may not involve anyone teaching Bob Costas how to use Periscope, but since all the kids are doing it, the network wants to stay current. They’ve even gone so far as to hire “social media superstar” Logan Paul to “capture the excitement” of things.

“We know that if we’re going to do it effectively, we’ve got to do it with a sensibility designed to engage that audience,” said Gary Zenkel, the president of NBC Olympics and strategy for NBC Sports.

“Our digital team does an amazing job getting all that information to us so we’re all in sync, but it is indeed a brave new world,” said Jim Bell, NBC Olympics executive producer.

With Facebook, NBC has a “Social Command Center” to post highlights and interviews. This plays into NBC’s TV strategy as its data has found social media pushes more vested viewers toward the prime-time packaged events rather than cannibalizing it.

• On demand: Something called the “X1” experience will be offered to customers with access to Comcast cable, which essentially puts digital coverage it into a cloud and integrates live streaming from the internet to the TV screen. Check with your providers.

• More visual specialization: Something called a 4K Ultra HD will offer 83 hours on a one-day delay. Like back when 3D feeds were available for those with 3D TV. Visually stunning, but not much else. Again, your providers can provide more info.

• On the radio: Westwood One has live radio rights for many updates and live events that will pop on KSPN-AM (710) and KXPS-AM (1010) in Palm Desert. It is accessible on Sirius XM and @tunein online and app.