Glastonbury 2023

Stoned Rose said:
Not noticed this Capaldi kid before.

He seems a bit “odd”?
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Not very well apparently, got tourettes and really struggled with an attack before the set.

I deliver up in Scotland and there was a customer on her phone for 4 hours trying to get tickets for his concert, she was 26k in the queue lol

She didn't get a ticket btw
 
richardtheref said:
My son did sound at Uni and he commented to me that not 1 band who has been on has sounded "right". His main gripes were Axl Rose (obviously), The Pretenders (he said the singing was in a different key to the band), and of course the Arctic Monkeys.
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Yeah it sounds like they’re messing with the vocals and pitching them in a different key compared to the music. Don’t even know if that’s possible, but loads have sounded out of key.

Although it makes you appreciate Tom Smith here as it’s not affecting him in the slightest.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah it sounds like they’re messing with the vocals and pitching them in a different key compared to the music. Don’t even know if that’s possible, but loads have sounded out of key.

Although it makes you appreciate Tom Smith here as it’s not affecting him in the slightest.
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Or somehow they don't have decent floor monitors so the vocalists can't hear themselves?

Either way, doesn't explain why all the vocals appear to be too quiet to the rest of the backdrop............
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah it sounds like they’re messing with the vocals and pitching them in a different key compared to the music. Don’t even know if that’s possible, but loads have sounded out of key.

Although it makes you appreciate Tom Smith here as it’s not affecting him in the slightest.
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You can blame the singers, plenty have sounded fine too.
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Or somehow they don't have decent floor monitors so the vocalists can't hear themselves?

Either way, doesn't explain why all the vocals appear to be too quiet to the rest of the backdrop............
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I thought the only rule for festivals was to make sure that the singer was louder than the drummer...?
The rest can sort themselves out.
 
bluealf said:
Not very well apparently, got tourettes and really struggled with an attack before the set.

I deliver up in Scotland and there was a customer on her phone for 4 hours trying to get tickets for his concert, she was 26k in the queue lol

She didn't get a ticket btw
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That’s a big queue just to have to turn up and sing the songs yourself.
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Or somehow they don't have decent floor monitors so the vocalists can't hear themselves?

Either way, doesn't explain why all the vocals appear to be too quiet to the rest of the backdrop............
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Well a lot of bands don't rely completely on floor monitors anymore, pretty much 90% of them or more use in ears.

As for the mix, well, the mix we hear on the broadcast is the broadcast Mix and different from what the crowd are hearing at the front of house, which is controlled by the bands own sound engineers, so you can basically put that down to whoever is doing the BBC broadcast mix are simply not very good.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah it sounds like they’re messing with the vocals and pitching them in a different key compared to the music. Don’t even know if that’s possible, but loads have sounded out of key.

Although it makes you appreciate Tom Smith here as it’s not affecting him in the slightest.
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He has watched quite a few bands and says it's as if they have trainee's doing the sound.

Also just been a story on the NE News. A young band from Cumbria were booked to play but were refused entry as had not "purchased" tickets. Apparently, if you are a true indie band you don't get automatic entry
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah it sounds like they’re messing with the vocals and pitching them in a different key compared to the music. Don’t even know if that’s possible, but loads have sounded out of key.

Although it makes you appreciate Tom Smith here as it’s not affecting him in the slightest.
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Some of them just can’t sing live mate.

Astley last night, Raye eariler and the kid from Editors right now have shown a lot of them up.
 
Stoned Rose said:
Some of them just can’t sing live mate.

Astley last night, Raye eariler and the kid from Editors right now have shown a lot of them up.
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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.
 
richardtheref said:
My son did sound at Uni and he commented to me that not 1 band who has been on has sounded "right". His main gripes were Axl Rose (obviously), The Pretenders (he said the singing was in a different key to the band), and of course the Arctic Monkeys.
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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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