Rolling Stones Superbowl Sound By ABC Was Attrocious

[EdwardGein]

I'm amazed at this kind of level with this kind of money, ABC could let this type of thing happen. When I saw McCartney last year at the Superbowl, while his performance I thought was OK, the sound was fantastic, same with U2. Not that the Rolling Stones need the money & I personally stopped listening to them 25 years ago, but this will cost them plenty in lost album sales & possible ticket sales in the future. I could have gotten a better recording off a cassette recorder.

Funny thing was I didn't notice the volume changes between the commercials & the game as I usually do when watching TV. Outside of the first couple of commercials, they were pretty lame and is Amerquest or whatever its called on crack or something as their commercials were both distasteful & were pointless and I usually like distasteful things but not in this case!

[luvs2jam60]

Yeah, it was a lousy job. I don't have an HDTV (no room in the dorms for a decent one, sadly) and I was listening to the analog signal, and it still sounded aweful. Almost as if someone totally cut off the highs during the half time show. Really bad job, which is suprising because apparently the NFL brought in the guys that has done a ton of superbowls and has a big reputation for doing a phenomenal job with live broadcasts, Don Mischer Productions I believe. Maybe its because it was ABC and not one of the big sports networks for football like FOX or CBS besides monday nights, but they need to go back to the drawing board. And, just an aside, the monkey-infested CareerBuilder.com commercials were absolutely hilarious!

[jamison]

i thought the sound quality sucked ... but the performance wasnt super either.. then again i didnt expect it to be ... I thought the national anthem was absolutly retched..

i dont think anyone will ever outdo whitney houstons performance

[EdwardGein]

The sound was so bad, I couldn't evaluate the performance. I thought after the first 15 seconds that maybe there was a technical problem that would be corrected right away, but nooo. The game though did look great visually on HDTV. Unfortunately during the regular season they put the scores and crap constantly blocking the picture and it looks more like a pinball game.

[Eric Z]

A pinball game- that's funny- nice analogy!

Regarding the Stones...I just thought it was because they are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past their prime