I was listening to Live Killers for the first time in a while today. It prompted me to wonder whether or not the volume of the audience's singing had been pumped up in those sing-along parts of Now I'm Here, Love Of My Life and Spread Your Wings.
I've never heard such loud crown participation before as on this album.
Was it amplified? Or could it just be that microphones were used specifically to record the audience and this wasn't usually the case?
I always wondered about the difference in volume of the audience singing the first line of I Want To Break Free on Live Magic as compared to Live at Wembley '86.
If the audience singing has been amplified on Live Killers, I must admit, it sounds great.
dysan · Member since
It is a 'live' album, and the audience singing is a big part of a Queen concert - it's standard to have two mics above the crowd. I guess cranking them up would be the natural decision :o) I was always puzzled by the start to the Live Magic IWTBF - I was too young to understand it had the brginning chopped off.
I'll say it again - I love Live Magic. It would make a great 'budget' CD release next to Live Killers and Wembley. The only thing that it perhaps lacks is being a useful follow up to Live Killers - IE having no duplicate songs on it - like Bowie's David Live and Stage did (Both 17 tracks, released 4 years apart, no duplication)
Makka · Member since
Would love for them to expand the original Live Killers album!
popy · Member since
pittrek wrote: No, I mean Wembley. A thread about it was here with some youtube links, I'll try to find it. I think it was done for some of the video games ? There's the Bohemian Rhapsody rock part on Queen official Youtube channel. Can't find anymore than that. Yes, It sounds different then the releases available. Maybe now they do have the multis, because when Wembley was released on DVD back in 2003 they used the mix we all know, because they didn't have the multis to mix it properly for 5.1 surround, that's why the 5.1 track in the DVD is an upmix from the stereo source.
ploughman · Member since
pittrek wrote: No, I mean Wembley. A thread about it was here with some youtube links, I'll try to find it. I think it was done for some of the video games ?
Really? Why did they do it again?
It was already re-mixed for the dvd release a couple of years ago.
popy · Member since
I don't think so. It uses the same 1992 release mix. Even the 5.1 mix is an upmix of the stereo mix. At the time they didn't have the multis, but maybe now they have them.
Milton Keynes and Montreal DVD's are properly remixed from the multitracks, but Wembley DVD it's not.
