Sunday, February 05, 2006
Lazy Sunday and First Sound
6:05 PM CST
Just watching the Super Bowl and doing some audio experiments during the commercials.
ADDENDUM
8:05 PM CST
OMG, what an awful Super Bowl Halftime Show this year. I've never been to a live Rolling Stones concert before, but I'm sure they normally do much better. It really isn't the quality of the individual artists, but the horrible audio mixing. The levels are all wrong, so much so that Mic Jagger's vocals are completely drowned out for several bars at a time. I actually got up to check that my stereo had both channels working. Of course the audio may have sounded fine up close to the 3,000 or so lucky fans in the familiar Stones' mouth and tongue shaped logo mosh-pit, though the aging boomers probably would have shown just as much enthusiasm if the Stones had started belting out a polka.
Things started out in the same before the game with the nation anthem sung by Aaron Neville. At first it was a barely audible whisper. You could almost imagine the sound board guy freaking as he struggled to bring Neville's mike gain up without starting a huge feedback squeal through the hundreds of speakers in the stadium. Neville was on key, but just never seem to be able to project.
I didn't watch the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe-malfunction halftime, but I did watch Paul McCartney's halftime show last year and it put the Stones' show this year to shame. I wonder what the NFL thinks about the fact that people like me remember the halftime shows (good ones or bad ones) much more easily than the actual games themselves. I'm not really getting into the game again this year, as evidenced by my continued blogging while it is in progress. Still they probably really don' t care why we watch or what we think as long as we tune in every year and they can charge 2.5 million for a 30 second ad. Some of the new commercials have been clever this year, but probably only about one in four are really clever. At 2.5 mil a pop you'd think they'd try harder to do something really revolutionary. You also have to wonder why at these price points only about half of them are produced in HDTV after three or four years of Super Bowls in HDTV.
Just watching the Super Bowl and doing some audio experiments during the commercials.
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ADDENDUM
8:05 PM CST
OMG, what an awful Super Bowl Halftime Show this year. I've never been to a live Rolling Stones concert before, but I'm sure they normally do much better. It really isn't the quality of the individual artists, but the horrible audio mixing. The levels are all wrong, so much so that Mic Jagger's vocals are completely drowned out for several bars at a time. I actually got up to check that my stereo had both channels working. Of course the audio may have sounded fine up close to the 3,000 or so lucky fans in the familiar Stones' mouth and tongue shaped logo mosh-pit, though the aging boomers probably would have shown just as much enthusiasm if the Stones had started belting out a polka. Things started out in the same before the game with the nation anthem sung by Aaron Neville. At first it was a barely audible whisper. You could almost imagine the sound board guy freaking as he struggled to bring Neville's mike gain up without starting a huge feedback squeal through the hundreds of speakers in the stadium. Neville was on key, but just never seem to be able to project.
I didn't watch the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe-malfunction halftime, but I did watch Paul McCartney's halftime show last year and it put the Stones' show this year to shame. I wonder what the NFL thinks about the fact that people like me remember the halftime shows (good ones or bad ones) much more easily than the actual games themselves. I'm not really getting into the game again this year, as evidenced by my continued blogging while it is in progress. Still they probably really don' t care why we watch or what we think as long as we tune in every year and they can charge 2.5 million for a 30 second ad. Some of the new commercials have been clever this year, but probably only about one in four are really clever. At 2.5 mil a pop you'd think they'd try harder to do something really revolutionary. You also have to wonder why at these price points only about half of them are produced in HDTV after three or four years of Super Bowls in HDTV.
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Honey! ;)
By nian, at February 11, 2006
