Firing off a live audio feed rather than a locked track meant building in a deliberate timing offset — roughly 400 milliseconds — to account for the time sound takes to travel from the stage to the firing position at the back of the field, so the pyro reads as simultaneous with the music from the audience’s position rather than the crew’s. This is a real synchronization detail most cue sheets built purely in a studio never have to account for.
At 1,600 shells across eight minutes, this remains our highest firing-density show on record, with the closing 45 seconds alone accounting for roughly a fifth of the total shell count — a genuinely escalating finale barrage, not a single simultaneous dump.
