Diamond Queen sound

[BlackBackDrop]

It was a super high pressure live event, so many things were always going to go wrong.

The Queen did not care, she was more worried about her husband on the night. Fancy arranging for him to be on a boat all day, come on... tit.

What did strike me, and I am putting on my professional head here, is the distinct lake of 'entertainment' from the modern acts that lined up. They just failed to engage the audience on any level. They did there thing, but it was unique (well at least to me) to see them one after the other, and it really showed them up.

The tools we use, talk and fight about every day in the studio are distancing the artist from the audience, live the music sounds different, it alienates them, confuses them which means to look and sound good they should stick to miming.

What does anyone else think?

[Ward Pike]

The real musicians and singers, the true artists shone. The pre-fab twits looked like the polished turds they just might be!

[charlieclouser]

Madness sounded out of breath and pitchy; the bv's on "Our House" were sad.

Annie Lennox sounded VERY pitchy - searching for the notes and shaky at best.

Robbie Williams sounded awful - out of breath, out of sync, pitchy, and as if he was singing to a different track than the backing.

Tom Jones, Elton, and Stevie Wonder sounded pretty good, considering. The raw talent and quality of their voices shone through what was probably an unfortunate set of circumstances that exposed the weakness of most of the other performers.

[hanuman]

Well, for me it appeared that they were all playing without monitor. Off pitch, shouting. In the world orchestra there were many people playing that we could not even hear. I would not have mentioned it (considered it nature) but at the Olympic games in the US ( with J-Lo) there was also a vary bad sound. Yet, aged technicians said that that this size of event things should not be a problem.
I wondered that with this kind 'on the fly' thing they do not use in-ear monitoring. At least one can store presets.
Another thing was the amount on non class-A bands.
No U2, Coldplay or Oasis, and no duets (When you are winning) (Ebony and Ivory) Yet the fireworks were good, we missed the jets and helicopters with flares but they were there the other day.
(And yet on another level, where was the (composed) 'music for the fireworks'?)

[hanuman]

All things considered, it was bit of a poor man's party (with a good dessert).