What would be interesting is to know how good the sound can be with these soundboards. Rainbow, Montreal and Budapest all sound wonderful, Wembley not so much, and all were multitracked. If they are able to make them sound as good as the formers they have potential gold in their hands.
matt z · Member since
^ not that interesting unless it's all unabridged and comprehensive.
Nobody wants to hear the same setlist every night for 30 shows.
Neither will I (*me my Matty mo I as in EYE: ME) want to purchase just " highlights.
They should be able to situate a time machine and send people back to corresponding spots at the concert each night where they wouldn't interrupt the act, but have the localization to enjoy and EXPERIENCE each and every concert for a minor sum.
Couldn't be all that hard, right?
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]MercurialFreddie wrote:[/b]
^What he said.... something like 100 bootlegs project.[/QUOTE]
Right - but with the real tapes.
If they can release audience tapes of horrible performances from Japan 79, then they surely can release stereo soundboard tapes of any other show from their career.
Krypto_98 · Member since
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[b]Doga wrote: [/b] What would be interesting is to know how good the sound can be with these soundboards. Rainbow, Montreal and Budapest all sound wonderful, Wembley not so much, and all were multitracked. If they are able to make them sound as good as the formers they have potential gold in their hands.[/QUOTE]
They would probably sound something like Sun City 1984 or the Budapest 16 Camera's Soundboard. Unless they sound as good as Mannheim, I don't really see them releasing them. If they have stuff that sounds as good as Mannheim they have lots of potential gold in their hands
Your Fairy King · Member since
Yes released seven soundboard recordings from 1972 back in May. I'm not a HUGE Yes fan, but I bought one and listened to the other six on line.
pittrek · Member since
The 100 bootlegs project was doomed from the beginning, because it gave us what we had before for free, usually incomplete and/or worse quality, and expected money from it. Uncut "unoverdubbed" soundboard tapes would be a hit, I mean even I would buy them and I never pay for downloads
brians wig · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
If they don't think they're releasable in the sense of what people have come to expect of live-albums, why not make (some of) them available as either lossless paid downloads or in some kind of economy-package marketed at die-hard fans? It'd take precious little effort on QP's part, in effect merely having to digitize the tapes and doing a minimum of post-processing the level out the sound and EQ.[/QUOTE]
That would require a little bit of effort.
Far easier and cheaper to just rip off a few crap quality bootleg CDs and tout them as 100 best Bootlegs for sale at £5 each for a crappy mp3 download..
Oh hang on. They started to do that didn't they and then it became too much like hard work and they stopped after only around 15-20 I believe....
Am I negative about QPL?
Damn right. I've been a Queen fan for far too long.....
Nitroboy · Member since
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[b]Krypto_98 wrote: [/b] [QUOTE]
[b]Doga wrote: [/b] What would be interesting is to know how good the sound can be with these soundboards. Rainbow, Montreal and Budapest all sound wonderful, Wembley not so much, and all were multitracked. If they are able to make them sound as good as the formers they have potential gold in their hands.[/QUOTE]
They would probably sound something like Sun City 1984 or the Budapest 16 Camera's Soundboard. Unless they sound as good as Mannheim, I don't really see them releasing them. If they have stuff that sounds as good as Mannheim they have lots of potential gold in their hands[/QUOTE]
Mannheim '86 and Tokyo '85 sound excellent (with crowd noise as well) because they were being broadcast on the radio. Far different from a dry straight-up soundboard recording.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Krypto_98 wrote:[/b]
They would probably sound something like Sun City 1984 or the Budapest 16 Camera's Soundboard.[/QUOTE]
Correct.
Oscar J · Member since
If they're worried about the soundboards sounding dry, just add some reverb to selected frequencies and you're good to go. Or hire C_Matt - he can extract instruments out of stereo recordings with an almost magical precision.
BETA215 · Member since
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[b]Oscar J wrote: [/b] If they're worried about the soundboards sounding dry, just add some reverb to selected frequencies and you're good to go. Or hire C_Matt - he can extract instruments out of stereo recordings with an almost magical precision.[/QUOTE]
The problem about that is when the song results very artifacty (with notable artifacts in all the instrumentation and vocals), or when the instruments are mixed so together (talking about frequencies) that if you extract any instrument you're also extracting something else that you don't wanna change or wanna modify in a different way. Read the White Queen (BBC Version) liner notes for example.
Chief Mouse · Member since
Regarding Sun City, Budapest sounding dry and with artifacts. Isn't that logical since we don't have a master tape rip of those? What makes you think the soundboard masters would also sound just like that? I would think they'd be closer to Mannheim or Tokyo 85. But then again I know nothing about audios so feel free to correct me. Or.. were Mannheim and Tokyo multitracked? If so, that could explain the better quality I guess.
MercurialFreddie · Member since
Also it's worth mentioning that the Friday Wembley gig sounds hundred times better than the Saturday one. They had an opportunity to change/correct it when planning a release for 25th anniversary but they said that they wanted to show the person who did the original mix respect so we ended up with an upmixed 5.1 version. It seems that even when you have a multitrack you can come with a not so good mix.
