Stones - Super Bowl

[SiliconAudioLab]

Well at least there wasn't a breast incident.

Loved that "Satisfaction" guitar solo.

My head hurts.

[superburtm]

Originally Posted by SiliconAudioLab

Well at least there wasn't a breast incident.

Loved that "Satisfaction" guitar solo.

My head hurts.

What was up with satisfaction. Sounded like the Heroin kicked in

[davenutz]

anyone notice the arbitrary 414 pointed outward from the drumkit, above the floor tom.

looked like it was in the sightlines of a camera that was supposed to show Watts, they didnt use that feed after the first shot of him where half the frame was microphone. Im sure AKG loved that.

[Nerve Nickels]

whats up slutz....

I liked all the monitorrs around the tounge, so Mick could walk about....

Beats the hell out of any bowl show I've seen in a while....

Did anbody cath Prince on SNL last night....Quite a show!!!!

There is hope!


hahaha

[oceantracks]

Originally Posted by superburtm

What was up with satisfaction. Sounded like the Heroin kicked in

Yeah that was deliciously bad!

Mick was great but geez, Keith, Ronnie...wake up...what fret are you on?

TH

[Quantum Man]

And anybody notice how when Mick first started singing the first song, his first line wasn't heard because the engineer on duty wasn't doing his job! I too liked all the monitors around the "tongue", as well as the 414 in the first big drummer close-up. :D

[tsd]

with much respect to the stones, they have definitely entered into the grandpa rock phase of their careers. like mick said they could have played satisfaction at superbowl 1.... there they are 40 years later!!!

hope im that cool when im in my 60s!!!

[blaugruen7]

is it anywhere to download?

[tomwehrle]

Originally Posted by Quantum Man

And anybody notice how when Mick first started singing the first song, his first line wasn't heard because the engineer on duty wasn't doing his job! I too liked all the monitors around the "tongue", as well as the 414 in the first big drummer close-up. :D

Yeah my lil bro who is getting into mixing live stuff was like..."check out all those monitors" and I was liked..."yeah, i guess they dont like in ears" haha

Try iTunes I'll bet they'll be selling it possibly, re: downloading it to listen to.

And for the record, besides the mic not being on for the first 2 lines or whatever, didn't any of you think that the mix was pretty crappy sounding, i respect that it was live and all, but come on, they should have had a better sound, it just sounded so dead sounding to me, never full and "kicking" like rock music should...ya know.

[Fletcher]

It might have been Ed... I didn't see any credits but whoever it was nailed the closing of the channel for the "cum" in 'Start me Up'. As for not having a line open on a live gig like that... it's not too uncommon.

The moving in of the staging [and strike!!] in that short a window of time was nothing short of amazing. That it wasn't "punchy" probably had more to do with the broadcast limiting than the actual mix [though it did seem a bit short on "room mics"... but that could very well have been because whoever was doing the mix had no idea what the broadcast limiting was going to do with the audience mics... and better it should sound a little dry than like a bad "audience bootleg"].

When I heard what Ed put together in the Record Plant truck at Fenway Park last summer it was nothing short of amazing. Live to 96 track sounded like a fukking record when they were doing the "aftershow copies"... I mean it was seriously one of the best sounding things I'd ever heard in a recording truck!! [that could have been a combination of Ed's talent and skill and an amazing truck as well as that he was borrowing my ADAM S-3A's].

The band sounded like the band... I was just a bit surprised that Keith didn't have a cigarette going just for the fun of having one going at a sporting event... but it is the fukking Stones... you get what you get and that's that... you have a problem with it?... fukk you [remember, that's the attitude that got us to buy the records in the first place].

[liazord]

Wel.. my crew loved it...

The fact that the geezers could play so loose and raw.... like that bar band that rocked the house and ya walk away laughing and thinking Hey I could do that...except for Mick of course... nobody else can do that!!!!

[ToddF]

Stones Superbowl

[chadly]

Originally Posted by Bryan Talbot

Yep, it was weird, like an aux camera feed or something.

Not to be a downer, but I really wasn't impressed with the mix either. We had a dozen people over, (none of them engineers) and one commented on how bad it sounded. (I didn't say anything before to "bait" them either!)

It might be broadcast limiting, but wow. . . It sounded like a rough board mix off of FOH for the band to take home for a demo. This is the big one. The Superbowl. That's probably the most people watching a live mix anywhere, at anytime. (charity concerts excepted) I should be blown away. Period. Perhaps something was wrong with the feed from our affiliate?

I was impressed on how quickly they got everything up and going though! The set was pretty cool, and I thought the Stones did a pretty respectable job.

[Jax]

Mick himself ****ed up Satisfaction. He started singing the chorus after only a couple verses and the band was too shitty or apathetic to make up for it. The new song from their new record went off great, though. Ronnie was kickin' ass.

[StoneinaPond]

Originally Posted by ToddF

Stones Superbowl

Wow, definitely past expiration date.

Sad really.

[liazord]

Well frankly the mix sounded pretty shitty in our room as well and nobody really cared. It was the Superbowl and off the Tv. Completely Amazing to pull this off in the time allotted.

Just good sloppy rock n roll fun... sure beat Aaron Nevil doing the national anthem..I could swear he started in the wrong key.

[AdamJay]

what the hell is this thread doing in "High End" ?

[blaugruen7]

Originally Posted by ToddF

Stones Superbowl

thank you!

not as bad as i expected!
mixer sound sucks most.
looks like no soundcheck

[tedcrop]

And I twy and I twy

What the F is Twy?

Or was I just hearing things.

[borau]

What an amazing piece of truly bad audio!

The only thing sounding right was the vocal and the snare drum, the rest.....
Just bleed.


And whats up with american live shows on tv having these MASSIVE amounts of audience noise right up there in the mix, at least 10dBs to loud?

I noticed this in the Live 8 stuff last summer too, and on other occations.

The worlds most legendary band on the worlds biggest TV show, with such a bad mix...
No, no.
I have mixed enough live music on TV and Radio to know that shit happens.
(like when I tripped in a person suddenly being there, pushing play for the next VO cue, announcing an award winner prematurely. Fun.)
Sometimes, a line is missing, a mix doesn't recall correctly, mic placements are too off.

But not this kind of shitty, bad, unusable audio making a legendary band look bad in front of millions viewers.

[RKrizman]

You'd think that the skilled hand that bleeped out "cum" could have been also skilled enough to turn on Mick's mic and the mic on the guitar solo at the correct time. Couldn't hear the keyboards, but really who cares, and watching music on tv you learn to live without bass. The drums were great.

Musically I thought they were great, exactly like they were on this recent tour. They started out a little too fast, but settled in nicely and did their Stones thing. And like all live music, it's bettter when you're there. But it's amazing that in spite of the lame audio the feel still came through, as witnessed by my nine year old dancing around the living room.

-R

[shipshape]

The sound was done by Jack Joseph Puig at the superbowl for the stones this year
Peace shipshape

[Matt Grondin]

Was that Chuck Leavell on keyboards? I couldn't hear a goddamn thing he played.


BTW, didn't see the close up of the mic that you'll were talking about... I guess my attention must have wondered to other things going on on my computer... wonder why?

[C.Lambrechts]

It was the Stones. What ? did you expect a Steely Dan sound ?

The Stones were announced.
The Stones showed up
The Stones played.
The Stones is what we heard.

LOVED it .... bad notes with attitude included.

[SiliconAudioLab]

Originally Posted by Fletcher

It might have been Ed... I didn't see any credits but whoever it was nailed the closing of the channel for the "cum" in 'Start me Up'. As for not having a line open on a live gig like that... it's not too uncommon.

The moving in of the staging [and strike!!] in that short a window of time was nothing short of amazing. That it wasn't "punchy" probably had more to do with the broadcast limiting than the actual mix [though it did seem a bit short on "room mics"... but that could very well have been because whoever was doing the mix had no idea what the broadcast limiting was going to do with the audience mics... and better it should sound a little dry than like a bad "audience bootleg"].

When I heard what Ed put together in the Record Plant truck at Fenway Park last summer it was nothing short of amazing. Live to 96 track sounded like a fukking record when they were doing the "aftershow copies"... I mean it was seriously one of the best sounding things I'd ever heard in a recording truck!! [that could have been a combination of Ed's talent and skill and an amazing truck as well as that he was borrowing my ADAM S-3A's].

The band sounded like the band... I was just a bit surprised that Keith didn't have a cigarette going just for the fun of having one going at a sporting event... but it is the fukking Stones... you get what you get and that's that... you have a problem with it?... fukk you [remember, that's the attitude that got us to buy the records in the first place].

The audio crew deserves a hall of fame medal. I'm stunned at how fast they can roll that rig in - get sound from most (or all mics) mics - nothing screeched w/ feedback or dead channels (that I could tell anyway) and then roll it all back in that time frame is a ****ing miracle. thumbsup

[borau]

The Stones were announced.
The Stones showed up
The Stones played.
1/3 of The Stones is what we heard.

[SiliconAudioLab]

Originally Posted by C.Lambrechts

I was the Stones. What ? did you expect a Steely Dan sound ?

The Stones were announced.
The Stones showed up
The Stones played.
The Stones is what we heard.

LOVED it .... bad notes with attitude included.

YOU were the Stones? Cooooooooool!

[C.Lambrechts]

Originally Posted by SiliconAudioLab

YOU were the Stones? Cooooooooool!

[Telecastr]

Originally Posted by shipshape

The sound was done by Jack Joseph Puig at the superbowl for the stones this year
Peace shipshape

Did he do the broadcast mix, or the stadium mix?

[Winey]

Originally Posted by C.Lambrechts

It was the Stones. What ? did you expect a Steely Dan sound ?

The Stones were announced.
The Stones showed up
The Stones played.
The Stones is what we heard.

LOVED it .... bad notes with attitude included.

You ever play a really bad show and then you talk to the "You guys were great" guy in the crowd?