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Thread: The band lost their seats
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08-14-2018, 04:47 PM #61Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: The band lost their seats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6VIrBt8Zg I present this as an example.
Part of the issue with the field mics is that there is a delay between when we play and when it finally gets through the speakers. It's especially evident the farther we stretch back across the field. If you take the mics away, sound will hit the front audience all at the correct time - from the early days of marching band, you realize that you have to listen behind you to stay in time. That image of Freddie Mercury on stage with a stadium full of people moving their arms in time with when audio actually reaches them (definitively showing the speed of sound) is another example of that problem.
Short version - it's a lot more difficult in reality to make any of this work. The ideal solution would be an array mics suspended above the field all feeding into a mixer on field level, with speakers on the sidelines projecting away from the band - this way, it would never matter what direction we're facing. For many obvious reasons, that's never going to happen. The stadium PA system just isn't a good solution - that's why the BSO brought their own speaker system when they performed halftime a few years ago. No stadium PA is ever going to address that, so we work with what we have.
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