How come live concert audio quality is often so bad compared to recordings?

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I mean, I understand not being totally able to reproduce studio album recordings even if the musicians are great. But what I don’t understand is the sheer sound quality of live concerts. Even in big venues with rich famous bands the audio sounds badly mixed at best, or an unintelligible noise-soup at worst.

I assume it has to do with the acoustics of outside with tons of amps vs a closed room with stereo speakers. But idk I just play guitar in my bedroom and I’m genuinely puzzled.

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Because they’re mixing live in an environment made for things other than sound. Your best bet as a listener is to try to position yourself near the mixers. It also doesn’t help that some singers just don’t enunciate very well and it ends up slurring together.

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