Rolling Stones Superbowl Sound By ABC Was Attrocious

[EdwardGein]

Believe me heads will roll! When U2 played the sound was flawless & I doubt their stuff was prerecorded. I can't comment on Paul McCartney except it also sounded great- total seperation of instruments, volume levels were correct, etc. The fact that this was done live in a stadium is no excuse for terrilble, it wasn't even mediocore, sound. Actually, while I admit I don't have an engineer's technical knowledge, I think everything, except the drums was digitally recorded anyway, so there shouldn't have been that terrible muddy sound. Again, keep in mind that this is the NFL's & ABC's apex event of the year with a huge amount of money invested & when you do something like that, you don't have shoddy sound quality for the half time show.

[toenail]

I listened to the Stones in DD5.1. Aside from a few level matching problems like a guitar solo being somewhat muted or lead vocals too quiet at times the show seemed as expected. The bigger issue for me was that Mick did what most do in that situation and sprinted around the stage so much that he started sounding like an out of breath aerobics instructor. BTW, it was quite kind of ABC to switch the pre-game Mick interview with Robin Roberts to low definition.