OT: Michigan Stadium - Is it loud? What are your thoughts about the atmosphere?

Michigan stadium is not particularly loud, but it has a unique sound.  For big games, the stadium has a hummmmm that lasts for the entire game.  Sometimes it revs up, sometimes it revs down, but it never turns off.  It is a marathon crowd, not a sprint. I have ran out of metaphors but people who have spent a lot of time there understand.

UTL was definitely rockin. I just don't think the construction even with boxes traps the sound like other places. And perhaps the crowd isn't as wild either. But its loud enough. It makes a difference.

I know what my watch recorded for sound (I have no idea how accurate that it is) during the Ohio State game and anyone who thinks 120db isn't loud needs to stop standing next to the speakers at rock concerts. It was at or around 100db+ the entire game when Michigan did not have the ball.  The Big House gets really loud when it needs to.

I've always thought part of the difference in sound level between the Big House and, say, Beaver Stadium or Camp-Randall was harmonics. That is, the metal from those two free-standing erector sets resonates sound while the dirt surrounding UM's in-ground bowl tends to dampen the volume. Of course, as an LS&A guy, my knowledge of structural engineering is vast. 

Ask,"Joel Klatt!"  Also it's obvious that we're loud on an as needed basis!  We're no ice cream social.  Beaver stadium is only,"loud" when they have a chance.  From my experience there's nothing better than a tamed lion.  Meow!!!

We need a full, elliptical awning over all the fans (at least the part of the bowl that’s above ground, to minimize on-field shadows) - like the Allianz Arena - to really bounce the sound back down on to the field

Last time I attended a game I pretty much hated the experience.

Blaring music, endless ad timeouts, and even then the 'scoreboard' was a distraction.

All that crap isn't about the game and, for me, makes attending the games in person less fun than watching at home where the beer is cheap and good, I have three games going at once, and I sit in a comfortable chair with no bathroom or food line.

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I've been to a bunch of rival stadiums and the Big House at full tilt is actually among the loudest. PSU is the only one that gets consistently louder. Iowa gets as a loud. But Wisconsin and the toilet in Columbus are NOT as loud as their reputations suggest. Wisconsin does get rowdy, tho. 

The wine and cheese narrative was always false. It was purely a function of acoustics. A probably unintended consequence of the luxury seating was that sound is held in much better. The stadium is now (fairly) loud and it is an excellent atmosphere. It will nevr be Autzen stadium in Oregon or Tiger Stadium in baton Rouge at night, but it is pretty good.

What?

yes it's loud.  Much louder once they put in the new structures.

The new gigantic scoreboards w/equally large speakers are also very loud.  Don't buy seats next to them you won't be able to hear yourself think.

Penn State and The Columbus Crapper are loud as are Camp Randall and Kinnick at times. But in my experience none of those are as loud as Neyland Stadium (Tennessee’s Fighting Fulmers)

The two Death Valleys (LSU and Clemson) are apparently deafening as is Bama, Georgia, Texas A&M . Can’t say myself as I haven’t been to either of those five.

Seemed pretty damn loud when I was there on November25th. I dont care what the noise level is against Bowling Green or Rutgers

I attended the OSU game this season and it was the loudest game I ever remember attending. Every time OSU had the ball it got loud.  I attended many games in the 80s and then only one home game every other year. In the 90s, up to present time., When I was young it seem like a lot of older people (over 50) always liked to sit. Now that I'm older, I stood the entre game and cheered my ass off.

Beaver Stadium having all those decks really helps their crowd noise.  But the stadium is ugly as hell both inside and out.  We don't have the ugly factor at the big house, which I appreciate.  

We're not the loudest but we were never the wine and cheese crowd either.  There were plenty of non-rivalry games where I remember the crowd being incredible.  I was at the game when Henne threw the pass to Manningham on the last play against Penn State.  I was at the Northwestern game in Harbaugh's first season when the crowd did the "Defense!" chants.  

This is going back some years but remember when Henson threw the over the shoulder touchdown pass to David Terrell against Wisconsin?  At the time, I thought that was the loudest the big house had ever been for a non-rivalry game.  That entire game, the crowd was on fire despite the fact it was so low scoring (we won 13-10).  

lol calling the big house pre-box days as “old school.” I was there before there were railings on the steps. 

I heard it was really loud for the osu games but TV does it no justice IMO. Even the noise reduction on cell phones by fans doesn't give you an idea how loud it is.

I've seen one video vs osu this year (which was yesterday) that was down on the field near the student section where it was the closest I felt to hearing and feeling how loud it was on Blakes first TD run.  It was a bar stool camera following Taylor Lewan.

I think if they enclosed the two ends around the scoreboards a bit more it would hold in more noise but a lot of it has to do with the older crowd as many have mentioned.

Kill Seven Nation Army. That chant bugs me. It would be cool if we were the only school that does it but now everyone does it. that makes it passe.

Correct, the stadium reflects sound upward.  Probably deafening for those banner planes.

Michigan Stadium can get loud on the field, but mostly due to sheer volume - it has one of the, if not the highest seating capacity in the country.

The parabolic bowl is actually better for the band.  There's little echo to smear out notes, so the band sounds crisp.  That said, everyone's moving to piped music so we might outlive the MMB.