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08-09-2008, 03:27 PM
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Live or Recorded?
How many of you have been to live concerts of your fave bands but been disappointed in the quality of singing/instrumental?
Conversely, how many have been to a live concert and found your band to be just superb and perhaps even better than your disc recording? In the past few years, I've been to see Blondie and Page & Plant and the musicianship was fabulous on both counts. Very impressive. I haven't actually been to a live concert where I've been disappointed but I have heard recordings of singers/bands who are playing 'live' and it sounded cringe making!      
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08-10-2008, 08:50 PM
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Were you listening to bootleg copies? I'm a big Dead fan and have heard some bootleg tapes that were just awful, but it was the quality of the tape making, not the band playing. Some arenas aren't great though, and I have been disappointed because of reverb.
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08-11-2008, 03:15 PM
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Most of the ones I have been to that were outdoors were the ones with bad sounds for the entire show so I could kind of understand. I dont think I have been to any indoors that were bad enough to complain about though.
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08-11-2008, 10:44 PM
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The first time I went to a concert was also the first time I saw my favorite band live. It was an Evanescence show. At first I was a bit disappointed. I was wondering why it sounded so off. But then I started to get into it and realized it won't always sound just like the album live, especially when the artist is running and jumping around.
Amy Lee's vocals are hit or miss. I've seen Ev around 15 times since that show in 2004. Some shows she is vocally phenomenal, others not so much. The band is usually pretty damn good no matter what. One band though, or vocalist really, that sounds exactly the same live as on the album is She & Him singer, Zooey Deschanel. Her voice is as clear, strong, and beautiful live as it is on the album. Granted she isn't running around and jumping, it's still amazing. You know there were no effects put on her vocals on that album.
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09-06-2008, 07:09 PM
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Having some experience with this topic, I can tell you that many bands and performers play in all sorts of venues with the exact same equipment. So one day they may play a sit-down theater with balconies and the next day they might be playing a hockey rink.
The two variables you're stuck with are clarity and volume, or as I'll refer to them: Clean and Loud. If you play the nice intimate theater with the upholstered seats and balconies, you can sacrifice a lot of the loud and emphasize the clean. If you're playing a multipurpose sports arena that seats 10,000, then clean goes out the window in favour of loud. I've been a bootleg collector for years and have literally thousands of examples of good and bad recordings. What the sound guy hears is usually not representative of what the crowd experiences. If you're going to a concert, here's my absolute BEST advice: Bring (and wear) your earplugs. Sure, you may look geeky. But you'll be filtering out all the crap distortion and hearing the show the best possible way. An added bonus is that your ears won't be ringing for 3 days afterwards. That ringing is actually the sound of your damaged eardrums.
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09-07-2008, 12:42 AM
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Too many bands have a variance between their album and live sound. I actually walked out on a THIRD EYE BLIND show because it was terrible.
Most bands I like put on a good show, the favorites anyways. Bands like O.A.R., Guster, Dave Matthews all have better live shows than their albums. But their albums are also quite incredible. RUSH is a favorite for me live because of the stage show. It really is incredible. One new band that blew my mind live was TALLY HALL. They were incredible, and I only wish their wonderful CD captured the quality of their live performance. One thing I found, most high line pop bands suck live...and aren't worth a nickle to see the peformance. One comment on Page & Plant. I've seen them live twice, and while its a great experience, I really don't think those two can keep up with their studio performances. I really feel Jimmy Page is a superb studio musician, but lacks the creative punch on stage. You can see that in the Unledded and Led Zep DVDs, too.
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09-07-2008, 01:31 PM
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awww...i love she and him. they're so goofy and fun,i'd love to see them live!
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09-09-2008, 03:19 AM
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 I've been to over a dozen concerts and I have never thought the sound quality even came close to the quality of the CD... Some are a little better than others, but it is nothing like the CD... The CD is recorded at a studio under near prefect sound conditions... They can sing or play each part of the song over and over till they get it just right... Then the sound people work it over, they mix and adjust everything till its just right... They don't release the song till everybody working on it thinks it right... At a concert you get what you get... Now of course most of the time I enjoy the concert a lot more than I do just listening to the CD because of all the people and visuals...
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