Here in Utah, they started playing The Words instead of the concert since it was the theater Queen was "renting" for the showing.
About 10 minutes after we pointed that out to the usher, the projectionist switched it over to the concert. It started with Freddie singing the last bit of Tavaszi Szél Vizet Áraszt but even that was just a blank screen for the few seconds it was on.
The concert started and was very quiet. I'm convinced most of it was in mono. It seemed that the vocals in Now I'm Here were the only things in any sort of stereo.
I noticed a lot of shifting in volume as a lot of people have pointed out. It really did sound like 'volume correction/stabilization' was being used.
The whole thing reminded me of the Ukraine concert, though not quite as bad.
I'm assuming we completely missed the documentary.
Kamenliter · Member since
I saw it tonight and after reading everyone's comments I feel I should have my money refunded! I didn't even get the documentary! Before the movie started they were having trouble with the disk, as a DVD menu came up on the screen. Then they started and stopped a few chapter markings, with int. clips with Freddie ,etc...but then the movie just started, with no documentary.
I was confused but figured something was inaccurate in the ads and that the documentary would be on the Blu-Ray...I guess the people at the theater had no idea what they were supposed to show.
On top of that, the sound was very low and only coming from speakers at the screen. No surround sound at all.
This was at the Edgewater Multiplex in Edgewater, NJ.
There were a total of 21 people in the theater.
jondickens1 · Member since
How strange! I had the same sound issues as the majority of the fans have mentioned on this thread. The documentry sound was ok.But the concert volume was so quiet.I saw 5 or 6 people dash out to complain during One vision and TYMD.It did improve afterwards but the surround sound didn't seem to be working properly.I went to Showcase Cinema in Nottingham.
The concert itself was amazing however,and once the volume levels were addressed i appreciated the remixing that had been done;the quality was a thing of beauty.I also appreciated the fact that in the few moments of the concert where Freddie did f*** up the vocals,they weren't corrected,namely the end of One Vision in the fill before TYMD.
Hammer to fall had a much much better mix then the old VHS,which imo always sounded muddy.This was much crisper and snappier.
Its a shame the concert was still edited exactly the same as the VHS.I can only assume the complete film has been lost.But i simply cannot wait for the cd release of this where its the complete concert.That is simply awesome!!!!
jondickens1 · Member since
I forgot to mention,the clips of Slane Castle,Newcastle.So,...............where did the audio come from for that????That sounded like soundboard quality to me.QPL must have the recordings of these concerts,at least in part???????
rocknrolllover · Member since
is it really all bad? Or how many people have so many opinions?
on my way up · Member since
I went to Mechelen in Belgium and also here there were serious issues with the sound.
It was actually very bad. It started off with only the frontspeakers working. By Tie your mother down it got a bit better but sound remained weak for the rest of the evening.
Really sad since I had hoped to be blown away by this concert in the cinema. I know in my head how it's supposed to sound and then you get the sound of an average soundboard bootleg recording...(I'm not kiddin').
Some people seemed to be happy when going home but don't know what kind of ears those people have..
Dane · Member since
I think the cinemas are not to blame.
They are not used to their presentations to have to be adjusted after 30 minutes.
If the documentary would have been treated the same as the concert it would have sounded great from the start.
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About the documentary. That was quite nice to see.
A lot of unseen interview stuff and some music video outtakes (Princes, AKOM) which were in superb quality.
Not the actual music video footage.. that was crappy upscaled stuff.
I loved the point where they showed the supporting act in Budapest. The entire audience had a good laugh :)
Queen1973 · Member since
Yeah same at Cineworld shrewsbury as soon as one vision started the sound was to low and wrong, 3 girls behind me went to complain, then a i shooted turn it up some guy also complained then they came in and turned it up at in the lap of the gods...but apart from explosion noises this was NOT in 5.1...WTF we all need to complain and this we should get the bluray for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..
Queen1973 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]kevinhairsineevans wrote:[/b]
Yeah same at Cineworld shrewsbury as soon as one vision started the sound was to low and wrong, 3 girls behind me went to complain, then a i shouted turn it up some guy also complained then they came in and turned it up at in the lap of the gods...but apart from explosion noises this was NOT in 5.1...WTF we all need to complain and this we should get the bluray for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..[/QUOTE]
p.s. the picture quality was amazing...but this will be shelved in my house and to many cuts no point releasing it really give us a concert from the 70s.......
Queen1973 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]kevinhairsineevans wrote:[/b]
Yeah same at Cineworld shrewsbury as soon as one vision started the sound was to low and wrong, 3 girls behind me went to complain, then a i shouted turn it up some guy also complained then they came in and turned it up at in the lap of the gods...but apart from explosion noises this was NOT in 5.1...WTF we all need to complain and this we should get the bluray for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..[/QUOTE]
p.s. the picture quality was amazing...but this will be shelved in my house and to many cuts no point releasing it really give us a concert from the 70s.......
tomchristie22 · Member since
Sigh. It seems the sound problem was pretty much universal - the documentary was deafening at mine, and then the show itself sounded very distant, and wasn't even utilising the surround sound. They fixed it a bit as it went on, but it was still underwhelming. I did quite enjoy the film itself though, just didn't appreciate the retards running it.
cmsdrums · Member since
Well that's made my mind up to not bother going to see it then - I'll wait for the Blu Ray and hear it how it should sound (assuming QPL and Eagle Rock don't mess up the discs that is)
. · Member since
What a shambles!
blackshuck03 · Member since
I went to vue cinema in london,
we didnt even get to see the documentary they claimed that there was a fault with it and a sound issue with the concet itself and gave everybody in the cinema a free ticket for another time,
i will use it on sunday when it is shown again and hope things are corrected,
was disappointed that they didnt remove the band member footage from between the songs
blackshuck03 · Member since
I went to vue cinema in london,
we didnt even get to see the documentary they claimed that there was a fault with it and a sound issue with the concet itself and gave everybody in the cinema a free ticket for another time,
i will use it on sunday when it is shown again and hope things are corrected,
was disappointed that they didnt remove the band member footage from between the songs
