YOU SAID:
Friends, I want you to dial it down about twenty notches.
INTO JAPANESE
友人、約 20 ノッチをダイヤル欲しい。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
About 20 notches, friends want to dial.
INTO JAPANESE
約 20 のノッチの友人は、ダイヤルしたいです。
That didn't even make that much sense in English.