QueenZone discussion #1438174

QOL mouthpiece wrote: Sure enough they've got a shitload of soundboard concerts recorded in stereo onto bug standard quarter inch "reel to reel" tape from the PA feed, but previously to "them", they haven't been able to tinker with the sound too much, and that explains why they've so far left the concept alone. He could be referring to a LOT of shows where they just have stereo soundboard recordings, and there ARE a lot. But I really don't think we'll see many, if any, of those ever getting released, outside of some sort of archive live release set, and then probably only for the curiosity value of songs they only played a handful of times.

mooghead wrote: Discuss? Ok.. according to a thread on that other website there are shitloads of soundboard recordings. The thread is from more than 10 years ago and we are still none the wiser... speculate away you lovely misguided souls who should know better by now....... I will pull up my chair...

Doga wrote: I also doubt they will release a soundboard show in the near future. Even if they are releasing a new show every year (which is a very good rate, imo) they still have at least one filmed/multitracked show from every tour till The Works Tour.

Doga wrote: Those Venezuelan shows? Are the S.American shows considered part of The Game Tour? And maybe i forget the American Jazz Tour, too. They don't have nothing from it, do they?

Holly2003 wrote: As Jim Beach doesn't want to flood the market with product, we can look forward to the first of these releases in the year 2091.

bucsateflon wrote:

Holly2003 wrote: As Jim Beach doesn't want to flood the market with product, we can look forward to the first of these releases in the year 2091.

and that's the wise way to do it

MercurialFreddie wrote: ^What he said.... something like 100 bootlegs project.

Doga wrote: What would be interesting is to know how good the sound can be with these soundboards. Rainbow, Montreal and Budapest all sound wonderful, Wembley not so much, and all were multitracked. If they are able to make them sound as good as the formers they have potential gold in their hands.

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: If they don't think they're releasable in the sense of what people have come to expect of live-albums, why not make (some of) them available as either lossless paid downloads or in some kind of economy-package marketed at die-hard fans? It'd take precious little effort on QP's part, in effect merely having to digitize the tapes and doing a minimum of post-processing the level out the sound and EQ.

Krypto_98 wrote:

Doga wrote: What would be interesting is to know how good the sound can be with these soundboards. Rainbow, Montreal and Budapest all sound wonderful, Wembley not so much, and all were multitracked. If they are able to make them sound as good as the formers they have potential gold in their hands.

They would probably sound something like Sun City 1984 or the Budapest 16 Camera's Soundboard. Unless they sound as good as Mannheim, I don't really see them releasing them. If they have stuff that sounds as good as Mannheim they have lots of potential gold in their hands

Krypto_98 wrote: They would probably sound something like Sun City 1984 or the Budapest 16 Camera's Soundboard.

Oscar J wrote: If they're worried about the soundboards sounding dry, just add some reverb to selected frequencies and you're good to go. Or hire C_Matt - he can extract instruments out of stereo recordings with an almost magical precision.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Krypto_98 wrote: They would probably sound something like Sun City 1984 or the Budapest 16 Camera's Soundboard.

Correct.

pittrek wrote: The 100 bootlegs project was doomed from the beginning, because it gave us what we had before for free, usually incomplete and/or worse quality, and expected money from it. Uncut "unoverdubbed" soundboard tapes would be a hit, I mean even I would buy them and I never pay for downloads

on my way up wrote: They have to understand that it is possible to keep both the die-hards and the general public happy with their releases!

Doga wrote:

on my way up wrote: They have to understand that it is possible to keep both the die-hards and the general public happy with their releases!

And lately they are doing exactly that. The past year they released the blissful Rainbow shows (for the hardcore fans) and Queen Forever (for general audiences). The product for the general audiences also included a never heard before song of Freddie Mercury. And this year they're releasing another 70s show.

The Real Wizard wrote: ^ fascinating post.

on my way up wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote: ^ fascinating post.

Brian is too much of a collector himself :-) There's surely more Queen stuff in his archive :-)

Sue Dounim wrote: They wont stay dry with the right touch. There are people who are actually skilled with sound editing programs and can make even the dryest soundboards sound full and good enough for official release. If more people actually learned how to be proficient with these tools then issues like dryness wouldn't be so problematic anymore.

pma wrote: Dry soundboard recordings? Surely QP have enough money to access high quality professional convolution reverbs or even record their own? Theoretically, they could record a real reverb for any venues that still exist and apply them with taste to recordings. Not that they have to, we'd be delighted to dish money for unheard soundboards. Personally I'd prefer products with less tinkering.