Bring the noise…. Project 145

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VFL-82-JP said:
I'm 100% in favor of the project!

Having said that, we lack the acoustics of Kansas City's stadium. It's kinda like this:

(a) have your 230 pound couldn't-whisper-to-save-his-life brother-in-law stand four feet to your right. Then have him yell, as loud as he can, directly at you.

(b) next, have your 120 pound sister stand the same distance away, but she's gonna shout as loud as she can into a long tube, like a gift wrapping paper tube...and the other end of the tube is going to be fitted snugly over your right ear.

He's gonna sound loud. She's going to burst your eardrum.

That's acoustics. That's how 70,000 at Arrowhead can sound 1,000 times* as loud as 100,000 at Neyland.

And there's honestly not a whole lot we can do about it. We might one day hit 120. We'll never get to 140.


* 140 decibels is 1,000 times louder than 110? Well, sort of. See, the decibel scale is logarithmic. That means 120 is ten times as much sound energy as 110. And 130 is 10 times more than 120. And so on. So 140 decibels is 10 times 10 times 10 times louder than 110. 10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000.

Now, that's not ENTIRELY accurate. Because I said "louder." When I said "sound energy" I was being perfectly accurate. But when I said "louder," I was a little off the mark. The reason the decibel scale is logarithmic is because we perceive sound that way. We don't hear something at 100 db and something else at 90 db and say, 'wow, that's 10 times louder." We think it is a lot louder, maybe even twice as loud. But not 10x. Our brains simply don't work that way when they process the signals from our ears.

And that's far more than you ever wanted to know about sound and sound energy. Lol.

Go Vols!
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I actually enjoyed learning that. You have an ability to make what would be a boring subject sound very interesting. Thanks!
 
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JRich said:
Stadium design has a lot do do with acoustics, which is why the record is Arrowhead with 76k. The loudest game I've been to, louder than any game at Neyland, was at the Swamp in '99 and that stadium holds 88k. That was a #4 vs #2 matchup.

Don't know that they'll reach 145, but good luck!
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The rain game Florida 92 with Shuler in 2nd half was one of the loudest. 90 Florida in Second half was deafening and bedlam. Swamp in 90's was just insane period (they gave out passes at half time to go to bars and come back). Faxgate game seemed to be loudest to me in 91. When Butch blew the late game on the 4th down 63 yard touchdown with minute to go that place might have been loudest I have heard there in 30 years wa not at either but have heard the 98 Florida and the Oklahoma games are the benchmarks.
 
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LakeMaryFLVol said:
The rain game Florida 92 with Shuler in 2nd half was one of the loudest. 90 Florida in Second half was deafening and bedlam. Swamp in 90's was just insane period (they gave out passes at half time to go to bars and come back). Faxgate game seemed to be loudest to me in 91. When Butch blew the late game on the 4th down 63 yard touchdown with minute to go that place might have been loudest I have heard there in 30 years wa not at either but have heard the 98 Florida and the Oklahoma games are the benchmarks.
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I believe we can make a new benchmark!!!
 
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