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why the hell is this thread in the 'recording techniques' section... I dunno
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but anyway: yesterday I watched some parts of the "VH1 music awards" or something like that... and my "hero" lenny kravitz was there too, playing "dig in".
he started out with the guitar riff I guess, and it sounded quite "live" (as the drums came in the guitar level was too low).
then it got better and when he started to sing I thought: "hey, lenny's said to be quite bad playing live - but this sounds good... too good."
the higher "there is nowhere to run..."-part was very suspicious. the mouth-to-mic-distance remained the same but the vocals still sounded so perfectly mixed AND THEN there were these lenny-backing-vocals... AND these lenny-lead-vocals... at the same time. but there wasn't any second lenny on stage... hmmmmmm.
so now I wonder what they did:
a.) play the intro and fade in a full-playback with some more reverb and a bit worse levels.
b.) play everything live but the leadvocals (that would be the "cool new way to fool the audience)
i guess 15 year old female lenny-fans would say: what a great live-performance... but he can't fool ME
btw: his guitar-solo in jagger's song was just awful. what a shame... I think that WAS live!

but anyway: yesterday I watched some parts of the "VH1 music awards" or something like that... and my "hero" lenny kravitz was there too, playing "dig in".
he started out with the guitar riff I guess, and it sounded quite "live" (as the drums came in the guitar level was too low).
then it got better and when he started to sing I thought: "hey, lenny's said to be quite bad playing live - but this sounds good... too good."
the higher "there is nowhere to run..."-part was very suspicious. the mouth-to-mic-distance remained the same but the vocals still sounded so perfectly mixed AND THEN there were these lenny-backing-vocals... AND these lenny-lead-vocals... at the same time. but there wasn't any second lenny on stage... hmmmmmm.
so now I wonder what they did:
a.) play the intro and fade in a full-playback with some more reverb and a bit worse levels.
b.) play everything live but the leadvocals (that would be the "cool new way to fool the audience)
i guess 15 year old female lenny-fans would say: what a great live-performance... but he can't fool ME





btw: his guitar-solo in jagger's song was just awful. what a shame... I think that WAS live!