Why is the sound mixing always so bad during the Super Bowl halftime show?

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You would think it’d be easy to make the singer’s voice louder than everything else. However, every year without fail the singer is always muddied behind the music and crowd.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s not always this bad. I’d WAG, bad acoustics in a wide open area combined with mixing on the fly, loudspeakers that really aren’t designed for concerts (sending a lot of the audio back down to the field that they need to make sure the mics don’t pick back up?) and everything being so rushed that maybe they don’t have time to do a proper sound check.

As someone that knows nothing about concert audio, I’ll agree though, a lot of times, tonight specifically, it seems like they just need to bump up the level of his microphone, at least for the part of the audio that gets broadcast.

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