10 Things You Only Learn Attending AEW LIVE
9. Something Is Definitely "Up" With The Audio
On certain if not most weeks, something fairly annoying happens.
Dynamite cuts to a backstage segment. Some weeks, a wrestler - most recently Bryan Danielson - starts to cut a promo. You miss the first two sentences. The audio isn't just difficult to hear; the wrestler is muted. The audio is eventually picked up, but even then, you have to turn up the volume. The audio in backstage segments is invariably lower than the action in the ring.
Live, it is a completely different story - to a quite staggering extent. On the May 24 Dynamite, Jay White and Juice Robinson attacked Ricky Starks backstage. Juice's wild-eyed, obnoxious threats boomed through the speakers in the MGM Grand; compared to the typical TV feed, his amusing trash-talk was positively deafening. The contrast was staggering.
Dynamite is approaching its four year anniversary, which begs the question: how does this keep happening?
It's not as if this isn't a known issue; "It wouldn't be a Dynamite with no audio problems" is a running gag on Twitter. People complain about this on a weekly basis.
It isn't just a backstage issue, either: while the May 24 Dynamite and Double Or Nothing definitely weren't the loudest AEW shows ever, the buildings were a lot noisier than Twitter suggested last week. It was strange to read that the fans were down for FTR Vs. Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett: the last five minutes of that match were as loud as anything I've heard in a live setting.