On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:05 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > We need some kind of high profile live TV concert with some of the beat > current singers in which they carefully explain to the audience that there > will be no sweetening, no vocal tracking, that this will often mean the > songs will sound different because it is physically not possible to > reproduce the same sound live, and also because the artistry of music > involves the performer making changes on the spot to express their current > thinking and feeling about the song, not what they and or thier producers > were thinking 5 years before. Live human performances are often in places > out of tune, off-beat and contain mistakes of various kinds - that is part > of how you know it is live. > > My daughter tells me even this is not all of the problem - that so many > live concert shows are so overly produced that many people hardly ever hear > real, live singing from gathering bigger name acts. So I guess I should not > blame TV concerts as the cause of the problem, but they still can be part > of the cure... >
For the singer, the problem with this is that they want their best performance on TV. If they go off key or a guitar string goes out of tune in a theater in front of 500 people or even an arena in front of 10,000 people that's all who will hear/experience it. On TV that song will be played to many times more people who did not buy tickets and might not be as forgiving. Plus sound engineering and the acoustics of the venue play a big role in how a concert sounds, whether live, on TV, or on the radio. I think concert sound systems today are much better than when we were young, but they were primitive enough in the '70s that a bad note would not stand out to the crowd. A feed of that same song going to a mixing board for TV might come out completely different and not to the artist's benefit. I remember seeing an interview with a concert promoter a few years ago about lip synching in live shows. The B-roll they were showing was a Britney Spears concert. Britney was moving all over the stage, dancing with her backup dancers while singing. The promoter said that with a vocal track they did not have to worry about good and bad areas of the stage and they didn't have to worry about Britney having trouble catching her breath with the vigorous dancing. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
