Glastonbury 2023

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A different experience for sure but why does it look like he is miming or lots of prerecorded vocal is happening while he waves the mic around nowhere near his mouth.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
Yep. And a lot of people will switch their song keys down as they get older and they can't hit the high notes.

Dave Grohl just lets the crowd sing those bits instead. But then he could barely sing some of them live when they first came out and I don't think he gives a shit.
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He was originally just a drummer for Cobane to be fair to him.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Arctic Monkeys sounded fine, the vocals were a bit quiet in the mix early on but that's it.

Axl Rose voice is shot to shit

And Chrissy must have been singing out of tune

I really don't think artists singing out of tune is a technical error unless the sound engineers have some sort of pitch shifter on in the monitor mixes the band hear, which is completely unlikely to be honest. Unless they are using pitch correction like a live auto tune and have a setting to autocorect to notes in specific key and scale but had it set wrong to the song which could happen, but then he didn't really sound like there was any of that, you would clearly hear it.

Another thing to consider is all the bands have their own sound engineers and monitor engineers and everything like that, so it's very unlikely all these top professionals that go all over the world with these bands all get it wrong at the same time. so basically you can put it down to performances and I think the broadcast mix that we're hear is pretty shoddy anywhere, but that's often the case with festival broadcasts.
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You would think the broadcaster would use the feed the artists own sound engineer is hearing?

Did you also not say that certain artists who know they no longer sound great might request a voice is tuned down?
 
blueinsa said:
You would think the broadcaster would use the feed the artists own sound engineer is hearing?

Did you also not say that certain artists who know they no longer sound great might request a voice is tuned down?
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Yeah you would think, that's what they used to do on radio broadcasts of gigs, essentially take a mix from the gig sound engineer

One reason they don't do it at major festivals is because those speakers that are blasting out music to a hundred thousand people have a completely different frequency reaponse to speakers you would be listening to at home, so generally speaking you might need a different mix to get the correct levels of frequencies in the bass and things like that. I played a few festivals around Europe and in Japan that went on TV and I once asked an engineer why they don't just take a feed from the mix that the bands sound engineers do and that was pretty much the answer I was given.

As for BBC purposely turning down singers that are shot, i don't know, they could be given instructions to do so but im speculating. I mean Paul McCartney broadcast went out an hour later than it actually was because they were doing correction on the vocals, as well as making sure there was no super close camera footage of him, so it's not out of the question the broadcasters can be instructed.
 
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