What I'd like to see in the future is the possibility to buy a video of every concert I have been to. The production quality must not be stellar, I just need a video from the back of the room plus ok-ish audio.
So when I want to relive that concert I will just open the video and then do some chores around the house.
Phish currently releases audio from all of their concerts. They do webcasts of some (all?) of their shows, and usually release a video of one of the songs after. I don't know why they don't sell the video now though.
You can find all their concerts at livephish.com. They also release old concerts of theirs every so often.
I could be wrong on this, but I think you also get a free mp3 download of the concert the day after if you attended the event.
Concert audio doesn't need to be bad, I've seen a few bands actually record and sell their shows on CD directly, and it's really not bad... better than standing in the audience generally (depending on genre and audience of course).
Yep. If you can get a recording of the "board mix" it'll be nice and crisp. That's not to say that you'd use the same mix that goes to the various house speaker systems but if you have one guy mixing the levels for live sound and then a second guy running a mix for digital recording (or even just a multitrack master for later mixing) then it can sound pretty damn good.
Plus you only hear the crowd cheering and yelling between songs or during a "sing along" segment when the audio engineer intentionally brings in the crowd mics. During the rest, you're only getting instruments and vocals, not Bubba asking Todd if he wants another beer.
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What I'd like to see in the future is the possibility to buy a video of every concert I have been to. The production quality must not be stellar, I just need a video from the back of the room plus ok-ish audio.
So when I want to relive that concert I will just open the video and then do some chores around the house.
Phish currently releases audio from all of their concerts. They do webcasts of some (all?) of their shows, and usually release a video of one of the songs after. I don't know why they don't sell the video now though.
You can find all their concerts at livephish.com. They also release old concerts of theirs every so often.
I could be wrong on this, but I think you also get a free mp3 download of the concert the day after if you attended the event.
Totally off topic, but this gave me a hilarious mental image of pushing a vacuum around at a Pig Destroyer concert.
Concert audio doesn't need to be bad, I've seen a few bands actually record and sell their shows on CD directly, and it's really not bad... better than standing in the audience generally (depending on genre and audience of course).
Yep. If you can get a recording of the "board mix" it'll be nice and crisp. That's not to say that you'd use the same mix that goes to the various house speaker systems but if you have one guy mixing the levels for live sound and then a second guy running a mix for digital recording (or even just a multitrack master for later mixing) then it can sound pretty damn good.
Plus you only hear the crowd cheering and yelling between songs or during a "sing along" segment when the audio engineer intentionally brings in the crowd mics. During the rest, you're only getting instruments and vocals, not Bubba asking Todd if he wants another beer.