Stefan D. ([email protected])
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:08:21 PST
I've had a talk with a few other wirelings regarding the soundquality at
the stadium-shows.
I have only been to one stadium show ever, U2 Stockholm 1993, and the
sound was HORRIBLE. It sounded like my stereo does when you turn it all
the way up, overloading the speakers so you get this distorted blur
coming out. Loud but only loud. My friends with whom I went to the
concert got the same impression, and this guy writing a review of the
concert in a local newspaper said the same thing (not that he cared, he
gave it a top rating anyway).
But I have a couple of bootleg recordings from the same tour, and they
dont even sound nearly as bad. You would think that U2's sound engineers
keep a constant type of sound throughout the tour, I mean after all, a
stadium is a stadium how much difference can there be?
So, all you people that has attended a lot of concerts, does the sound
quality vary much? Or does it depend on where in the stadium you are
seated? I was seated on the "balcony" but low down and close to the
stage. Is it better on the floor? Is it better in in-door arenas? Was
the PopMart tour better ? (I missed that one because of my whereabouts,
not because I did not want to go!)
Let me tell you that if the sound quality does not get much better than
what I experienced, I'm not too excited about going again.
Oh, one more thing, when the DJ was playing music before the show and
when the opening band was performing the sound was much better. It seems
like U2 cranked up the system so much when they came on that they
overloaded it and just created distortion in favour of a LOUD concert.
Not a trade I would make.
Yours Truly
//Stefan
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