News Of The World 40th Anniversary Box Set - ITS OFFICIAL!

[QUOTE] [b]Gregsynth wrote:[/b]

I'd be more than willing to pay to have full Queen shows in that mono soundboard quality. It's still perfectly good sound. Just keep it raw and complete - and I'll buy 'em![/QUOTE]

It certainly sounds better than Live Killers!!

Two thoughts have come to the fore for me listening to this set:

1) wasn’t John Deacon just a superb player, and SO integral to the band sound

2) Queen, Queen II, SHA, ANATO, ADATR, NOTW.....Six albums in just 4 years at that high level of brilliance of writing, innovation, variety, performance, fun, emotion, production quality....it’s simply outrageous!!!

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

Is SOTS two versions stuck together? Very slight change half way through?

Not a criticism. Just an observation.[/QUOTE]

Where exactly?

You're likely right - it says "live USA" probably because it's more than one show.

Finally received my boxset and I'm savoring every bit of it! Was considering if I should listen to one each day all the way till Christmas but man I'm weak :P
I especially love Freddie's ad libs on SYW (alternative take).

Does anyone noticed that DJ intros from BBC Session are upgraded on CD3 in comparison with 2016 'On Air' release? It was weak mono one year ago, now it's HQ stereo...

Have you seen the official announcement today?:

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[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

I've listened through the "Raw Sessions". Some initial thoughts:

* Freddie has probably never sung better and more creatively than right here. He could do anything with the voice in this studio shape. He is all over the place experimenting with the vocal lines and ad libs. He goes from absolutely soaring in It's Late, to to a breathy, soft, playful delivery on "Who Needs You".

* The studio banter before and after songs, while interesting and sometimes amusing, feels a bit pasted in and sometimes enters before the song has even concluded. I feel like this will get annoying when you've listened to a track a few times.

* I wish they'd stop using melodyne on Freddie, and so extensively at that. It's absolutely unnecessary; he is already held in the highest regard as a signer by almost anyone, and it's frankly a bit disrespectful doing that to a dead guys vocals and selling them as raw and genuine. Imagine other legends being auto-tuned posthumously like that - Elvis, Bowie, Lennon? Unthinkable!

The mixes are nice in general, though the sounds is a touch brick-walled in the heavier tracks.

Best tracks: Sleeping On The Sidewalk (Live), It's Late. GDML and Spread Your Wings are really good too.

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[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

Does anyone noticed that DJ intros from BBC Session are upgraded on CD3 in comparison with 2016 'On Air' release? It was weak mono one year ago, now it's HQ stereo...

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The use of melodyne is... well.. I cannot agree with what they do.. also as CMI noted, some of the tracks we know have been improved. To my ears the backing track of My Melancholy Blues (Houston 77') sounds better than it sounded on the NOTW 2011 Deluxe edition. Spread Your Wings (Live Killers) also sounds way better !!!

How is that they allow us (and public) to hear Freddie not being 100 % perfect on LK version of SYW and at the same time use Melodyne and all the other "audio tricks" on the alternate versions of Who Needs You and Spread Your Wings ?

Oscar, I don't completely agree with you, this release show that the legendary Queen Vault is vast and we haven't heard even a 1/3 of what's in the archives, maybe at other recording sessions he sung even better and more creatively :) ? Who knows...

Well if they ever re-release Live Killers, I'm sure it will be autotuned, compressed and doctored up just like all the other recent live releases. Just listen to how terrible It's a Hard Life from Rio sounded on the 2011 remaster of The Works. Terrible autotuning, compression and fixing up.

The backing track for MMB Houston Live is definitely crisper!

[QUOTE] [b]MercurialFreddie wrote:[/b]

The use of melodyne is... well.. I cannot agree with what they do.. also as CMI noted, some of the tracks we know have been improved. To my ears the backing track of My Melancholy Blues (Houston 77') sounds better than it sounded on the NOTW 2011 Deluxe edition.[/QUOTE]

My Melancholy Blues from Houston '77 wasn't used for 2011 Bonus EP but it's indeed sounds better here than on 1989 'The Miracle' CDS because they used newly created track from better source (new transfer from SBD or videofeed master).

[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]MercurialFreddie wrote:[/b]

The use of melodyne is... well.. I cannot agree with what they do.. also as CMI noted, some of the tracks we know have been improved. To my ears the backing track of My Melancholy Blues (Houston 77') sounds better than it sounded on the NOTW 2011 Deluxe edition.[/QUOTE]

My Melancholy Blues from Houston '77 wasn't used for 2011 Bonus EP but it's indeed sounds better here than on 1989 'The Miracle' CDS because they used newly created track from better source (new transfer from SBD or videofeed master).
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It this also simulated or real stereo source?

Real mono... as SOTS live from CD 2.

[QUOTE] [b]cmi wrote:[/b]

Real mono... as SOTS live from CD 2.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the info.
So QP may not have multitracks of this show...

One of the first here in Slovakia ... :)