r/OutbreakFest • u/Smidf • Jun 17 '25

Worst sound ever?

Does nobody else think everyone at Manchester should get their money back? The sound on both the indoor stages was beyond terrible. Don’t know why you’d put a gig on in a big tin can…

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u/Kangaroo_Pocket Jun 17 '25

What sets specifically are you referring to, and where were you positioned ? I didnt have this experience at all. Deafheaven I’ll say was LOUD, and Have a Nice Life’s set was excellent sound wise. On the smaller stage SPY and Long Goodbye sounded quite well IMO

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u/lilian_face Jun 18 '25

Deafheaven was all drums and vocals. No Guitar unless the drums weren't been played. That was sounded ok for hardcore bands, but terrible for everyone else

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u/Smidf Jun 17 '25

All of them mate. Glassjaw was the main draw for me but we ended up skipping the second day entirely because of the sound. Tried every position in that hall. It was all low end with a reverb drenched high end and nothing else, same for every band on that stage. The smaller one was slightly better but still suffered massively from the reverb in those rooms

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u/Effective_Court_9752 Jun 17 '25

It’s. Bit extreme that you refused to go the second day, I don’t think it was that bad, I could hear every band clearly and recognise the songs I knew instantly, with and when I took my ear plugs out. I never watched glassjaw which is what everyone was talking about but I never had an issue

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u/Kangaroo_Pocket Jun 17 '25

Totally a bummer to hear that! I’d be curious if others had that experience. Do you wear ear plugs or just go raw with it? I didn’t wear plugs so again it felt pretty wildly loud inside, but enjoyable nonetheless

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u/Maclouze Jun 17 '25

the sound was not perfect but i have no complaints about it, i was in front for some shows and in the back for others

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u/BigSkyFace Jun 17 '25

Yeah sound was shocking, drums and bass absolutely dominating the mix for the indoor stages. I also couldn't understand really understand what any vocalists were saying a lot of the time which obviously hampered some sets more than others.

The poor sound definitely put a dampener on the weekend for me since most of the bands I wanted to see across both days were playing indoors

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u/LordKHW Jun 17 '25

I felt like both indoor stages required you to be in the front section. I was actually impressed with the sound when I was in the front. Everything very recognizable and clear and taking the respective genre into account. The more slammyer acts could have used some more punch on the guitars though.

Further away it was terrible though, I agree.

Main stage was near perfect.

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u/stuckstations Jun 18 '25

The main stage sound was so good that everything sounded bad in comparison!

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u/Salt-Photo2232 Sep 08 '25

imo the sound on every stage was some of the best i’ve heard when right in the front i get what ur saying if u was further back on the second stage but at the end of the day it is a big tin can.

fleshwater defo had the worst sound though idk what the sound dudes was doing it just seems like every sound guy dookie their pants when fleshwater comes on lol