re: Why are the tiger stadium speakers so bad?

What comes over the speakers that’s so critical?

Ref calls? Most people know the hand signals refs use. Spell it out for the female fans on the scoreboards. Listen to the game broadcast and be informed.

Tiger band? As soon as they built above the lower bowl, it’s been impossible to hear the band in every seat. The band plays a smaller and smaller role on Saturday nights. Installing new speakers to hear the band will just encourage more trashy piped-in music.

Down and distance? Scores of other games? Look at the scoreboard, listen to the radio broadcast, or look at an app. The NEZ scoreboard needs to be cleaned up. The smallest portion of the board is the game score. Tons of ads, not enough info.

Bottom line: Less audio is better. More audio is the Devil’s workshop.

If it is harder for sound to escape the stadium, wouldn’t the crowd noise be more intense than ever?

A proposal to fix the audio?

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I work for JBL's parent company. We worked on a design and project proposal for Tiger Stadium 2 years ago through the local integrator.

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Out of curiosity, how were they looking to do it? Distributed speakers firing down from the top of the lower bowl? I’m guessing there’s not really a good way to centralize them with the new stadium layout?

Also, that sounds like an awesome gig.

It’s not really practical.

Those foam tiles you see with the pyramid shapes cut into them don’t really work. They are only really useful for flutter echo (like when you clap your hands in an empty room and hear a ring) at high frequencies. They aren’t nearly deep enough to absorb the frequencies that actually matter for vocal intelligibility.

For that, you would typically use larger acoustic panels filled with mineral wool, usually in the neighborhood of 2-4” deep (deeper = absorbs lower frequencies). Mineral wool can’t get wet, so that’s a major problem. The panels are usually covered with fabric, as the cover material needs to be somewhat acoustically transparent. If you put something like wood or metal over them there’s no point because then the cover just reflects sound.

So you’d have to have some sort of waterproof acoustically transparent material to use for protection. Then you’d have to cover the entire south upper deck with panels. And even then, they still might not absorb at a low enough frequency to fix the problem. They would probably be an eyesore and they’d definitely be impractical.

In a live sound setting, a crowd is often the most affective room treatment. People do a good job of absorbing high frequencies. I don’t think the high frequencies are the problem.

Me too. Really bad. Was blown away at how good Auburn’s sound system and video board were, but I will take winning football over Auburn’s situation all day.

Havnt been changed since 1947

Probably the best stadium sound I've heard was at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Full stadium, loud crowds, but every word on the sound system was clear and loud, with almost no echoing.

The actual fact of the matter is that they simply turn the on, turn volumn full blast and then turn them off when game begins. There isn't a person involved with that process that ever goes down and hears the quality or volumn because: 1 they are lazy and 2, they don't give a crap. Therefore, the entire process is broken and not a person at LSU gives a crap about it.

Maybe it saves us from all the crap they play over the PA system. Better play by play could be improved however !

I have seats on row 10 in the east side on the south 15yd line. Can’t hear anything. For ole miss I sat in the south stadium club, sound is so loud that I almost couldn’t stay outside. They need better directional distribution of the sound.