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The Boots sound like sheet......
dr teeth
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.......the guitars are mixed so poorly.i thought this was a guitar driven band, went to hartford and last night and thought the mix was awesome, but tampa and west palm sound like shit!
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3 Decibels Doubles the Volume
2006
Man I own every bootleg this band has put out and I gotta agree with everything you say....they really dont sound that hot....And whats going on with the piano, its overwhelmingly loud in the mix.
That said I shall be buying all the ones to come!!! ha ha.
Hail Hail
i agree......and i will still buy all of them!
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
But here's a kicker -- check out Marker from Tampa. Mike kicks it off.
Sounds like his amps are back in the dressing room being run to the stage by two tin cans and a length of string....
Sigh.
3 Decibels Doubles the Volume
2006
I intend to purchase the shows I was at regardless of the quality. but if someone wouldn't mind PMing me with a song from any of the shows, that'd be cool because I'm really curious to hear what you guys are talking about.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
OMG LMAO!!!
givin this my first listen right now :-D
(all this said, ok ok, they're sweet boots all-n-all, crystal clear, not much audience, very boomin bass, poppin' drums. Ed sounds wonderful. The guitars are a tad quiet, Mike esp so -- wonder how loud Ed will be when he picks up a guitar? But the more I listen to 'em right now, really pretty sweet. But yeah, I'd luv the guitars/mike to be MUCH louder.)
Faithful from WPB....The backing vocals are louder than Ed
They're taking two weeks to mix these things when the ones we got from Base Camp the very next day sounded better. I don't get what they're doing besides trying to make everyone happy. Whats the point of having an option for everyone if they don't sound as good as they should. For sure not good enough yet to order a physical CD.
Just 3-4 songs sound ok, but still far from the basecamp mixes (done in 24h, instead of two weeks).
The delay of the Bonnaroo bootleg makes me think they are going to consider the bad reviews of the first 2 boots, and try to mix it better. I'm sure they will !
2000: San Sebastian
2006: Barcelona, Vitoria, Lisbon I & II, Madrid, Verona, Milan
2007: Lisbon, Madrid, London, Dusseldorf
2009: Rotterdam, Manchester, London
2010: Berlin, Lisbon
2014: Amsterdam I & II, Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
2018: Amsterdam I & II, Barcelona, Madrid
2022: Frankfurt, London I & II, Amsterdam II
IF that turns out to be the case, it would be nice if they would re-mix the first couple of shows. It's not like it's difficult to remix them once you figure out the optimal settings.
This is strange because I think they sound great. Maybe I've been listening to too many audience recordings or something but I think they sound better than the '06 boots.
http://inthepresenttense.blogspot.com/
There's a few things going on that seem like the boots were shoddily put together...in quite a few places the volume of the guitars (or even the whole band) noticeable rises, like someone at that moment realized they were too quiet in the mix or something. Also, the first minute of Betterman is actually at the end of the W.M.A. track. I thought something was up when I saw that the track time for Betterman was 3:47. And I've only listened to four or five tracks so far.
Anyway, I already bought the Camden shows because I was at them, but I won't be buying any more of the boots, unless in a few days I see a thread that says "THE SOUND QUALITY OF THE BOOTS IS AWESOME NOW".
Edit - I have the flac
Lucky I didn't pay for mine.
lifewasted.net
and off ramp 1990...
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witch one's there are no 2007 official boots ??
Antwerp -Belgium- Europe
there are only audience recordings.
eg copenhagen.. where u can hear everything fine except for mike... just like tampa.
Its to distorted. The only way to lessen this I have found is to dick with my EQ and kill some bass. I have no idea why they are mixed this way. Thankfully I have already setup a preset for them so not all is lost but 06 was much better in my opinion. That said I will still get them all
Hopefully they realize the mix just is not right. Matt is loud as hell (fine) but Mike is too low.
Just my .02
1998: Melbourne 1, 2, 3
2003: Sydney 1, 2, 3, Melbourne 1, 2, 3
2006: Sydney 1, 2, Melbourne 1, 2, 3, Sydney 3, Newcastle, Adelaide 1, 2, Perth
2009: LA 1, 2, Melbourne, Sydney
2014: Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney
But I still have faith for the rest of the boots !!
2000: San Sebastian
2006: Barcelona, Vitoria, Lisbon I & II, Madrid, Verona, Milan
2007: Lisbon, Madrid, London, Dusseldorf
2009: Rotterdam, Manchester, London
2010: Berlin, Lisbon
2014: Amsterdam I & II, Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
2018: Amsterdam I & II, Barcelona, Madrid
2022: Frankfurt, London I & II, Amsterdam II
I think that maybe some of you guys just expect too much.
I have all that are available so far and I love them.
Maybe you need to get some new speakers and learn how to tweak your EQ. I don't know... I can hear Mike just fine.
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
But his heart don't seem to roam......
Still not perfect but the guitars are present
Thank you 10c
2000: San Sebastian
2006: Barcelona, Vitoria, Lisbon I & II, Madrid, Verona, Milan
2007: Lisbon, Madrid, London, Dusseldorf
2009: Rotterdam, Manchester, London
2010: Berlin, Lisbon
2014: Amsterdam I & II, Milan, Leeds, Milton Keynes.
2018: Amsterdam I & II, Barcelona, Madrid
2022: Frankfurt, London I & II, Amsterdam II
I should also mention that I was at this show and I'm just so thrilled to be re-living it that I'm not very focused on how the sound quality compares to other boots.