Appears that most saying it is excessively loud are in the upper deck. We are the lower deck and it is about what I’ve experienced at other stadiums, college and pro, and different sports.
This has to be some kind of joke. Just an absolutely stupid issue to discuss… We have way more things at ISU to worry about than “the speakers are too loud”…
My God.
I don’t see how anybody can possibly think our PA is not loud. Years of farm work as a kid, spent a few years in loud workplaces and have attended a good number of blaring concerts, so my hearing is not good. And the PA is way too damn loud. It’s just absolutely grating. Some songs it isn’t as bad as others, but the sound on the intro reminds of when I would crank up my music in old junked out factory car speakers in my 83 Mustang. We were in section R. In years past always sat lower bowl on the west, and it never seemed nearly this loud or annoying, so maybe it’s a function of being in that section this year.The problem is that it’s loud for you but quiet for others. It’d be nice if they could figure out sound distribution through the stadium in a future upgrade.
i sit in the upper deck at the 45 (section V). The sound system is INCREDIBLY loud. Everyone around me comments about it. i even see children putting fingers in their ears. I’ve worked in sound for a long time and this is ridiculous.
In an outdoor stadium? I've never seen that. I've seen it in indoor stadiums where you can hang speakers from the ceiling in the center, but how do you isolate your different audio zones in an outdoor setting when all the speakers have to be pointing towards the center of the field?
It is loud, but JFC people, it's a football game, not an opera.
I don’t see how anybody can possibly think our PA is not loud. Years of farm work as a kid, spent a few years in loud workplaces and have attended a good number of blaring concerts, so my hearing is not good. And the PA is way too damn loud. It’s just absolutely grating. Some songs it isn’t as bad as others, but the sound on the intro reminds of when I would crank up my music in old junked out factory car speakers in my 83 Mustang. We were in section R. In years past always sat lower bowl on the west, and it never seemed nearly this loud or annoying, so maybe it’s a function of being in that section this year.
It's more that it sounds awful than being too loud. The intro music sounds like a staticky radio station.
Don’t disagree there. But that’s not what the OP was referring to.