Instrumental sharing project

Hadnt paid much attention to this topic...just listened to your kind of magic mix....brilliant stuff! Just sorry I missed the other ones!

DeaconGone, I'll try to work out a way to repost any files requested. I'm not even sure how many more I'll share. There aren't many more that are very different from the original karaoke mixes.

I might upload 'Tie Your Mother Down'. I've restored the guitar intro but it's only a matter of a few seconds restored..

And with 'Somebody To Love' I'm not having much luck getting the outro restored. (The karaoke mix fades) The mixes are too different.

The rest of disc one are virtually unchanged from the karaoke versions so I think you'll all just have to find them elsewhere :-P

As for disc two, there's still a few I'm considering trying stuff with. A headbanger's instrumental mix of Hammer to Fall perhaps? :)

1) If you listen closely, you'll notice that the SYW instrumental included in the GREATEST KARAOKE HITS it's not an instrumental mix of the album/single version. It comes from a different (most probably earlier) version of the song. Maybe they've just found that instrumental mix in the vaults and used it, or maybe they've found a work-in-progress 'bounce' multitrack with just a backing track and some overdubs and muted the vocals if any. BTW, you can spot the differences more easily in the guitar arrangements of the second verse.

2) DeaconFan: Have you tried using the 5.1 mix of STL? I suppose it's end will make a good blend with the karaoke version (if you first downmix it properly, of course).

Very true point Wilki.

It's been discussed on here a fair few times. For me, that's what makes these karaoke versions so great, as in a fair amount of cases there's actually stuff ADDED to the album versions, as well as there obviously being the vocals removed.

Besides the extra guitar you mention in Spread Your Wings, there's also:

- extra guitar parts towards the end of Friends Will Be Friends.
- the glorious 3-part harmony run Bri does at the end of Bicycle Race
- some extra (or at the very least more audible) drums in Somebody To Love

I'm sure there's other bits and pieces as well, I just can't think right now off the top of my head.

Keep in mind also that some of the extra stuff is the result of the video versions being used, so yes, the FWBF mix changes and goes into the live crowd singing (I've actually eliminated this for mine and restored the album outro), The Miracle is about 10 seconds longer, Invisible Man has a re-edited intro taken from the 12" mix... all the result of being mixed to replicate the video versions. Long before the CD set in '98, these mixes were used on a 2-laserdisc karaoke set in 1996.

http://www.queencollector.com/Laserdiscs/Karaoke.htm

It had the original audio on the analog track, karaoke mixes on the digital, and burned-in subtitles with the lyrics. (Talk about the perfect project for dvd! A real lost opportunity)

And in terms of the 5.1 mixes, I have yet to experience them as my receiver is only Dolby Digital and I don't have a DVD drive.

No, Bohardy, that's not my point... All the GREATEST KARAOKE HITS versions (except SYW) are based on the ones used on the videos, that's why you sometimes hear them so different from the album versions.

And DeaconFan, I wish I could send you the ripped tracks...

Well I can't remember any of the parts I mentioned occuring in the video versions.

To my knowledge, the only video that had extra audio performed by Queen (as opposed to crowd noises etc) is the Headlong video that has that extra guitar refrain.

I'm no video buff, and I rarely watch them really, but I remember the sheer delight upon hearing for the first time that major scale at the end of Bicycle Race on the Karoake CD.

If it had appeared on the video version, which I'd seen numerous time prior to hearing the Karaoke versions, I wouldn't have been half so surprised to hear it then.

And if SYW isn't based on the video version, is it not reasonable to say that BR, FWBF and STL may not be based on the video versions as well?

There's also additional piano under the vocals at the beginning of Bicycle Race, but I do hear the scale thing on the original too, just perhaps a different take/different key.. it's not as 'happy' as the karaoke version.

I don't hear too much of a difference in SYW other than the general slight mix changes that comprise most if not all of disc one. The disc two mixes (except for special video versions) sound pretty close to the originals to me.

I'll probably edit this later. Company just showed up so my mind isn't all here :-P

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Very nice Deacon Fan... keep up the good work!!

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