
Chains Of Love
A Little Respect
The Circus
The Hardest Part
Push Me Shove Me
Spiralling
Hallowed Ground
Oh L'amour
Who Needs Love (Like That)
Stop!
Victim Of Love
Ship Of Fools
Knocking On Your Door
Sometimes
Long before the DVD came out I always thought that echo effect was added in post production, and suspected it was there to try and hide that Andy's timing might have been a little bit off. Back then I also found a bootleg crowd recording of the very same concert, and despite the poor quality, it didn't sound like there was any echo there which just confirmed my thoughts. And then of course eventually we got the DVD remaster... and I DO think Andy's timing is a little 'off'!dcd747 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:59 pm The thing I found interesting about the re-release was the noticeable difference in audio for several songs: notably the trumpet on The Circus and Victim of Love and the missing echo effect on Spiralling.
Was the echo added to the VHS audio (then removed for the DVD) or was that how it originally sounded live?
Ah okay, it was three, not two like I remembered.
Yeah, getting the video crew out to film all three nights would have been quite expensive, so it's more likely they just recorded audio (and it's possible they didn't even do that, but I'm curious where I got the idea that they did.)
What we have to remember is that this concert was staged specifically for television and video - even the stage was designed with camera access in mind - so it was approached more like a television production, and just like on a film or tv production it wouldn't have been unusual to get 'pick-up' shots to make it perfect. Or dub over mistakes on the audio!
Well over on the Erasure Gig Guide there were four shows. Three in November and One in December. So wether all four of the shows were recorded in audio is anyones guess.