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dedospegajosos
The seems to be two types of sounds from what I hear on boots and official releases. One is more clean and less powerful especially guitarwise (tokyo 95 for example) and there's the more chorusy and heavy drumming sound like the one you can hear on the haloween 94 show or Chile. What is the reason for this?
Personally I love the second sound as it sounds more raw and heavy, rather than the softer and cleaner sound (that is also on the official releases). Watching audience videos on youtube, I feel like the real sound the audience experienced is more like the raw sound.
What do you think? thank you!!
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andrews27
I saw them two nights in a row at CNE Stadium, Toronto, September 1994. I was watching with binoculars. Keith and Ron were especially lazy during Out of Tears, and I heard guitar playing when their hands weren't on the fretboards. I always have binoculars and kept an eye out on other tours, but never caught this again.
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retired_dog
...In the end we get an official VL tour release that simply does not sound like the VL tour.
WTF does a record release or a remix have to do with the sound of a tour?? The question was-VL TOUR sound.. correct??.. My ears heard what my ears heard. The shows were really good and a lot of fun but ..ask anyone who saw the 1981 tour how it sounded..then ask them how Still Life represents....The Stones live LPs have never sounded like the way the music was mixed when it was actually being played live..not even YaYas…. For better or worse there it is.Quote
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diverseharmonics
Saw 24 shows on '94 US tour---thought the guitar sound was too low and too evenly mixed ---not enough distinction between lead and rhythym…...bass was sterile, didn't swing, and mixed low...this is the tour where Watts' drum patterns all started to sound the same....as if he uses 4-5 patterns for everything. Jagger sounded great. Still enjoyed the gigs immensely though.
Is it in your opinion that VL Uncut is not on par with what you heard? AND To be fair, is the I Go Wild single mixed a lot better than what you were hearing?
You say what!?! Voodoo Lounge is one of the most Epic tours ever IMOQuote
Stoneage
All in all the sound on the VL tour was bad. Muffled and sterile. No wonder Der Spiegel accused the band of playing playback. They compared songs from different gigs and found them identical.
To the 1/100 of a second. Even if they were wrong I still think VL had the worst sound of all tours.
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Stoneage
All in all the sound on the VL tour was bad. Muffled and sterile. No wonder Der Spiegel accused the band of playing playback. They compared songs from different gigs and found them identical.
To the 1/100 of a second. Even if they were wrong I still think VL had the worst sound of all tours.
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Stoneage
Yes, Voodoosebi. What I think spoils it are the "tools" they are utilizing: Click tracks, loops, keyboard "instruments" and such. And the time schedule, gimmicks and screen videos.
At the end one might wonder: Why not go all-in on playback? It wouldn't make much difference...