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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 13:07:48
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Wow that mixing board looks just like my old small one that was in my bedroom.  Great info, Thanks
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 13:27:09
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Shhhhh.. I heard that you can get the raw tracks from the interwebs somewhere. But you didn't hear that from me.
As a matter of fact I've heard these perticular tracks, and it's a real eye opener. Mixed tracks of guitar and vox everywhere a mishmash as they say. It's an education just to listen to. Funny to hear then "crashing about" at the end and Freddy say" oh for f$&@ sake" at the end, makes me smile.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 13:36:05
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I don't know if it's said on that vid but the bulk of Brian May's guitar was bounced to two tracks. And a lot over vox tracks.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 15:22:37
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Old news guitarmikeh !
They were available as a 24 track rar file from a website I forget. So were other Queen tracks. There was a competition to see if you could make a better mix IIRC.
I got them, but haven't really listened. You can load all the mp3's in Sonar ........
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 16:04:01
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It's amazing how raw the guitar tracks sound. You have this illusion that professional recorded guitar tracks sound smooth and polished but they certainly don't. They sound great in the mix when all finished off though.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 19:23:15
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That's the trick of these classic tracks... played mostly LIVE and RAW... even the mixes have the RAW sound to them... all the noise disappears behind the music but it is all there and helps create the magic.
Very clean recordings don't have the energy that these limited resource tape tracks offered.. we had to be more creative back in the day to get everything to fit... and the mixing sessions were performances in themselves... 2 or 3 people would rehearse the mix and if we got it wrong at one spot, we would continue but wind up doing it again if one track was late coming in or too soft or too loud....
This was the most stressful part of the sessions because everyone always thought their part wasn't loud enough. Go figure.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/14 23:32:36
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That was geat. Thanks for posting.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/15 04:56:30
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There's a good write up in last Audio Technology magazine about this track and the clever way it's mixed etc.... lot of use of levels and bringing the appropriate part into focus at the right time. Quite interesting... and now I know where they got the audio files from.  Cheers.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/15 14:21:22
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strikinglyhandsome1
It's amazing how raw the guitar tracks sound. You have this illusion that professional recorded guitar tracks sound smooth and polished but they certainly don't. They sound great in the mix when all finished off though.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way. After the shock wore off and I was done being blown away to have the actual tracks from Bohemian, I really sat and listened. Simply amazing how some of those tracks sounded so poor yet came out so good once they were all together. Intonation issues, bad chord execution, some really bad instrument prints that I don't think most of us would be happy with if we got them in our studios...yet...the darned things sounded good together. That's the one thing I hate about this field that I wish could change. Sometimes you literally have to degrade an instrument to make it work in a mix with everything else. On the other side of the coin, soloing up Freddie's tracks were just pure bliss. Even when he screwed up it was great. That's one thing about someone that is talented...it doesn't matter what quality their recording is...true talent will stick out no matter how things were printed. :) -Danny
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/15 14:45:38
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isn't that from the movie 'making of night at the opera'?
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/15 19:53:18
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Danny Danzi
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It's amazing how raw the guitar tracks sound. You have this illusion that professional recorded guitar tracks sound smooth and polished but they certainly don't. They sound great in the mix when all finished off though.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way. After the shock wore off and I was done being blown away to have the actual tracks from Bohemian, I really sat and listened. Simply amazing how some of those tracks sounded so poor yet came out so good once they were all together. Intonation issues, bad chord execution, some really bad instrument prints that I don't think most of us would be happy with if we got them in our studios...yet...the darned things sounded good together. That's the one thing I hate about this field that I wish could change. Sometimes you literally have to degrade an instrument to make it work in a mix with everything else.
On the other side of the coin, soloing up Freddie's tracks were just pure bliss. Even when he screwed up it was great. That's one thing about someone that is talented...it doesn't matter what quality their recording is...true talent will stick out no matter how things were printed. :)
-Danny
It hit me right away with the piano. I thought it sounded like the 50 year old, out of tune upright my mom used to have. Sounds like a huge grand after the mix.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/15 23:31:17
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I was absolutely amazed by the piano track. Not in the quality of the recording or tuning issues, but rather in the composition that Freddie was playing. Brian kept saying that all of these parts were just in Freddie's head and they were filling in the parts as he heard them. I have listened to the song thousands of times over the years, but just hearing the piano isolated and as the back bone to the song and how the parts intertwine to a build up and then came to an end part was simply amazing. His sense of timing, as a piano player, likened to a drummer was also very interesting. Cool stuff. Certainly shows that talent beats all else.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/16 04:13:12
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/17 08:32:16
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Seen this on Tv last year as part of the 20yr thing. Fascinating. I love seeing stuff like this.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/17 21:06:55
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/05/29 19:20:44
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Probably helps that it's one of the most awesome songs of all time...most of us, in our home studios aren't...um...producing the most awesome songs of all time.
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Re:Brian May on the Making of Bohemian Rhapsody
2012/06/05 15:14:11
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I'm going to go out a limb here and say that while it was interesting for about 20 seconds (only a few times, truth be told), all in all the video was more on the boring side for me. YMMV.
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