In Reply to: LSO to 'fake it' for Olympics Opening Ceremony posted by FezCo on June 4, 2012 at 11:41:05:
Almost no popular music's played "live" anymore. None. All of those musicians and singers you see performing - anywhere, at anytime - have the little that they do play routed via a mixer to a laptop, or other hard drive, where pre-recorded music is mixed in and predominant. Pitch correction, wrong note correction, echo, delay, effects, much or all of the music being "played" - everything - everything! - is mixed in.While those people are bouncing and dancing and pretending to play instruments on stage, the computer's arranging and mixing the feeds to present a percentage pre-recorded/live mix. Usually, it's 75/25 - that's 75% pre-recorded, 25% live.
All so-called R&B acts, such as Gwen Stefani, Madonna, etc., are often 100% pre-recorded. All the music you hear is pre-recorded. All they do is dance around and pretend to sing.
It amazes me how gullible and downright stupid [yes, stupid!] the public is. Technology to play pre-recorded vocal harmonies in concert has been around since 1979. 1979! Queen used it. Since then, almost nobody ever takes the chance of singing vocal hamony live. Why?
#1 - it's hard to do.
#2 - usually all of the singing's overdubbed by the lead singer in the studio. The other guys can't sing a lick.It amazes me how the average non-classical, non-jazz listener fails to realize all of this, even when I've taken them literally by the hand in these so-called concerts, and had the mixing engineer reveal to then how it's all done. People continue to disbelive, and in some cases react with anger and violence. I've had that kind of reaction even here, on the pop boards. It's almost like religion to people. I don't get it.
Edits: 06/04/12
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- Forget Vanilli- 95% of All Pop-Rock-Techo-Etc is Lip Sync/Played - Mike Porper 12:18:33 06/04/12 (28)
- You are just makin this stuff up - Analog Scott 04:06:47 06/07/12 (25)
- Yep - David Smith 20:02:16 06/07/12 (0)
- I Really Wish I Were - Mike Porper 08:45:01 06/07/12 (23)
- Running and playing the violin. - J.R. 11:20:12 06/09/12 (6)
- OK - Starting To Get Tired of This - Mike Porper 08:19:21 06/12/12 (5)
- RE: OK - Starting To Get Tired of This - Analog Scott 22:39:06 06/12/12 (3)
- Thick As A Brick - Mike Porper 08:05:27 06/13/12 (2)
- Sarcasm is not a super power. - J.R. 09:08:59 06/13/12 (1)
- So True - Mike Porper 09:39:49 06/13/12 (0)
- The Eastern European music I like is tradition oriented. - J.R. 09:03:45 06/12/12 (0)
- RE: I Really Wish I Were - Analog Scott 14:06:54 06/07/12 (15)
- People Hear What They See - Mike Porper 14:26:49 06/07/12 (14)
- RE: People Hear What They See - Analog Scott 05:36:09 06/08/12 (13)
- You've Actually Supported My Point - Mike Porper 14:08:44 06/08/12 (12)
- Then your "point" and your assertions are two very different things - Analog Scott 09:28:31 06/09/12 (11)
- CUT........................... - Todd Krieger 22:18:18 06/11/12 (10)
- Since when is 95% a distortion of 95%? - Analog Scott 22:35:12 06/12/12 (4)
- When the Context Is Changed.............................. - Todd Krieger 17:26:10 06/13/12 (2)
- RE: When the Context Is Changed.............................. - Analog Scott 20:58:13 06/13/12 (1)
- Fine - Whatever - Time To Move On [nt] - Mike Porper 08:29:15 06/14/12 (0)
- 115% - Mike Porper 08:07:29 06/13/12 (0)
- RE: CUT........................... - David Smith 18:02:43 06/12/12 (4)
- RE: CUT........................... - Todd Krieger 17:34:39 06/13/12 (1)
- RE: CUT........................... - David Smith 18:02:43 06/13/12 (0)
- Switch between live singing and lip-synching during the performance of a single song - Mike Porper 09:52:23 06/13/12 (1)
- So can we agree that you are changing your claim from "95%" to "some"? - David Smith 11:09:25 06/13/12 (0)
- Way to go Mike Porper! - Timbo in Oz 00:04:56 06/07/12 (0)
- I'm With You Here.............. - Todd Krieger 20:47:40 06/06/12 (0)