Supersonic_Man89 wrote:
When people say vocal overdubs, i don't understand. How can the record new vocals for the live recordings? Or do people mean mixing the two nights performances? Or do people mean editing the vocals digitally?
Not trying to be funny, genuinely don't know how they can do this with a Queen recording from 1974 that they've just decided to release now?
Technically, an overdub is when you add audio on top of the existing audio. But in the case of most live albums they just replace certain things with bits either from another night or from a studio session from the time period. In the case of the Queen Rainbow material, considering the Sheetkeeckers bootleg came out in 1975 with the exact same vocal overdubs, we can reasonably date when such overdubbing took place..
I'm mainly talking about backing vocals. Some of Freddie's lead vocals may end up being overdubbed too, but unless we hear uncut tapes we'll never know..
However, there's one spot in Liar where two lead vocals overlap on the bootleg. It'll be interesting to see what happens on the official release..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNTMeBq9Mfs#t=1985