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The pictures are nice, but the sound is dire. Anyone else think so?
Sound tuned for them not you
Sound? My ears aren't working...
Her mic is shit! Too quiet! But my telly is ****!!
How selfish of them.
The sound on most of the sets I've seen from Glastonbury has been pretty poor. I assume it must be better live.
I am guessing she is letting the backing singers take most of the strain as it would be hard to sing wiuth any consistency while jiggling around as impressively as that. I don't dig Beyonce, but I can't dent it's a good performance.
can't hear her very well, but the crowd is very loud!
Shite!
🙄
sound was ok on my Surround sound off BBCHD
Sound tuned for them not you
Not strictly true, the BBC will take a pre mix feed straight from the multicore or desk, this will be engineered for telly. BBC aren't always the best though, top of the pops used to have a similar problem which i put down to the engineers not taking into account the reinforcement in the home (ie telly speakers)
"Not strictly true, the BBC will take a pre mix feed straight from the multicore or desk, this will be engineered for telly. BBC aren't always the best though, top of the pops used to have a similar problem which i put down to the engineers not taking into account the reinforcement in the home (ie telly speakers)"
Yep my bro is working for the BBC at Glastonbury, mainly editing. He said that very rarely do the BBC actually use true 5.1, in fact in would be near on impossible to get proper surround. They just take the sound mix as above and play around with it.
Overall I think the sound quality has been great at Glasto, but that has been listening through HD and connected HiFi.
Couldnt comment on Beyonce though, afterall how many blokes were actually watching Beyonce for the music?
not Zane Lowe, his comment was 'i went and watched some of Queens of the stone age' when asked about the performance
You also have to bare in mind that despite exhaustive rehearsal and pre set sound check (probably on an identical desk to the one used FOH) festival sets are initially done 'blind' without a full sound check through the rig. This has been made a lot easier with the advent of digital desks where an identical board is used backstage to sound check then the settings transferred to FOH
Watching glasto has made me realise that not getting into that side of the industry when i was a bit fresher was a big mistake. I feel a mid life festival crew period coming in my life. It's a shame it's poorly paid 🙁
seeing all those hangs of line array made me moist 😳
Overall I think the sound quality has been great at Glasto, but that has been listening through HD and connected HiFi.
Does HD make a difference - surely that just relates to the picture resolution. Mine is through a hifi too, and I think it's been fairly poor in general - vocals especially have generally sounded very muddy.
pretty sure the BBC will be monitoring in surround sound of some form (most likely 5.1)
this means that best results will come from listening in 5.1 (only available through HD)
Not sure about how the BBC process a 5.1 mix down into ProLogic, but it should be a fairly good representation, prologic is embedded in a stereo signal so theoretically speaking you should get a fairly decent stereo mix if you don't have surround
Vocals will never sound as good truly live like that, there's no time for all the processing needed to compress music to sound good through broadcast medium, effects and such will be used more heavily in the live mix, this will come across as a bit heavy handed on broadcast i suspect which will tend to mask the vocal a bit