HW: Complete 79 sound quality

[Colm McWilliams]

does anyone know if live 79 had a lot of overdubbing done to it in the
studio or is it completely live?

cheers

colm


> Hi Craig,
>
> The complete 79 recording was a "collectors item", Ie expect it to be
> rough & ready. Must admit that it was a disapointment to me when I first
> heard it, and now sits gathering dust.
>
> That said, it seems the best complete document from that tour ( the
> first that I saw) and from that point it is worth it alone to me.
>
> 79 is still a cracking LP and is played in southville towers.
>
> regards
> Iain
>
> But from a
>
> Craig Shipley wrote:
>
>  > Sorry if this is an old subject, but I got the COMPLETE CD set last
night
>  > and, at first listen, the sound quality seems much worse than the old
>  > single
>  > LIVE IN (initial thought is that there is a lot of tape mis-tracking
and
>  > that the sound is not as clean). Must admit that the initial listen
>  > was done on
>  > a boom-box (but it is a high-quality boom-box, bi-amped speakers  all).
I
>  > haven done an A-B comparison yet, but my recollection was that Li79
>  > was one of
>  > the best sounding live recordings. Does anyone have any insight about
>  > this? Or
>  > are my ears just fulla crap? SYMBOL 74 \f "Wingdings" \s 10
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > Craig Shipley
>  > mr_ship at bellsouth.net (personal)
>  > cshipley at veritas.com (work)
>  >
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