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GCumbee

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    Over 40yrs as an audio video professional. Recording studio owner engineer, national live sound and television audio.
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  1. Well I may have to spring for one and try it. Just hard to believe. But again. Some things just did not look and sound matched.
  2. I am still perplexed even reading about the DPA mics. I just lots of cases of discrepancies in tone of voice verses picture. I need to check my recording regarding the lapse on Hook where he dropped a line or 2. They still could have had the mics on for rehearsals only. I just can't believe those mics delivered that close up of sound while hidden in clothes or hair. I am still skeptical. I will check out that steadycam move. Now that you mention it I did think at the time I heard something yelled offstage. I have also worked as a rotating stage manager on live major market shows. Always had to watch that.
  3. @Marc. I confess that I wasn't watching for the whole show. I was taping it for my grandkids. I was listening but found it too difficult to deal with the audio problems to focus entirely on it. So, I must have missed the bad TD work. What I did see I thought was pretty good. Steadycams were for the most part very good. The fan noise drove me nuts. I worked with TK42's in my early days. Tanks. I thought I was in Heaven when we got 44's, 45's. These guys today have no idea what that was like. I feel a lot of things may be kept under wraps on this production. We all know what tricks are pulled but general public does not. I watched a taped Christmas special last night online. You see things like a steadycam move on stage 360deg around the singer up close. Cut to a wide shot and no cam in the frame. Gen public does not think anything about that. We all know they shot those songs at least twice or more with different cam positions.
  4. As a 40+ yr veteran of major studio recording, live sound and audio for live TV I am convinced they were lip syncing the majority of the show to a composite track they recorded in rehearsals with them wearing headband/earset mics. There were so many instances of not only timing but serious descrepancies in tone to visual perspective and ambience or lack of. A person turning or moving fast and speaking/singing and there is no apparent change in ambience or room tone. Person speaking fairly loud yet lips barely moving. I could go on and on. I was really bugged by the ambient noise as been discussed. I wondered if it was from lighting. Much worse in Neverland I guess from abundance of movers. It was really bad with tight compression or expansion pulling it up between lines. If these actors were really wearing body mics I want to know what they had on. How they kept down phase cancellations when actors were close together. I am just not buying it. I feel all but some area micing for group effect was all running to code with them lip syncing it. I know how hard this would have been to pull off live. I have done it. Not to this magnitude but just the same. I know it is difficult. I was most impressed with all the steadycam and jib work. I have also directed live TV in my early days. I did not catch one switching mistake. I was about to believe it was automated also. It was a monumental undertaking. I would have loved to have worked on it. Edit: just looked at the video clip posted above. Case in point where PP runs across room and jumps into window sill while singing. No change in her voice. Like she was standing by a fixed studio mic singing it. Just very unnatural. 'Disembodied' as one reviewer put it. GEORGE Mid-America Communications, Audio Creations Inc. Paducah, KY. Classic Recording, Nashville.
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