i'm sure if anyone else has really paid attention to the video or not yet
but, if you do, you may notice that the picture and sound are very much not
in synch at some points. this is most notable when the closeup is on jeremy
singing or will playing drums (look at the snare and high hat hits -- the
sound is almost a second off)... now, it's not that you should expect some
huge great production with this video or anything but you'd figure they'd at
least try to keep everything in synch. some songs are better than others but
then others are just really annoyingly out of synch.
i don't know what kind of time code the audio engineer used to try and keep
synch with picture or if he did at all but whoever edited it just did not get
it right at all. you would have thought, though, that a specialist in this
area would notice this and try to correct it before its release (who wants
their name attached to an inferior job?) but who knows... you would have
also figured subpop would have tried to fix it but, then again, it doesn't
seem like they're paying much effort to this live album/video thing, what
with the shitty artwork and all...
oh, and while i'm complaining about the recordings, is anyone else bothered
by the way it sounds? whoever chose the reverb setting for the vocal mic and
what-not did a horrible job. it sounds really robotic and awful, i think...
i know it's a hard thing to get a "produced" sound from a live recording but
shit, it can be done if someone good is working on it. (look at the live
portishead record... sounds even better than their studio records).
my $2grand,
jeremy
