Crowd Reactions

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by KayfabeMan I have been to a number of live events in numerous cities around the US over the past few years - and the crowds are no where near as loud as they used to be back in the 1990's.

Every single RAW from 98-02 was as loud as the once or twice a year "big moments" we get these days

Fuck... Too Cool's dancing was getting bigger pops than 95% of anything today. It's definitely true.

[Damian Rey]

Originally Posted by The Franchise Fuck... Too Cool's dancing was getting bigger pops than 95% of anything today. It's definitely true.

This makes me

[BigCrippyZ]

Originally Posted by Damian Rey This makes me

Me too man, me too. It's sad but true that Too Cool's dancing was getting bigger pops than most of what happens now.

On a different note, some folks claim it's some new digital audio technology affecting the crowd levels. Well I can tell you as a professional audio engineer, who's worked in live broadcast and studio/post production fields, that's not the case. The digital audio format has been the standard in live broadcast long before the crowd levels began changing. I don't know specific details about what type of setup WWE is running audio wise, but I know and have enough experience with HD and digital audio formats to know that no amount of audio compression/technology would affect the crowd levels that much but not affect the announcer levels, especially in a live setting. It's too hard to predict the change in levels of the crowd noise to alter it that drastically in a live setting. That's not to say that they can't and don't alter crowd levels in post on pre-taped shows and DVD releases, but they can't alter it that drastically due to DVD format and broadcast standards.