radiodaddy
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Happened upon a copy of "The Doors Live in Hollywood - Highlights from the Aquarius Theatre Performances." This isn't the title issued in the US by the Bright Midnight Doors mail-order operation (they also put out separate discs of the two complete shows). It's a WEA International import from Australia with 16 tracks. Found it in a local supermarket for USD $6.99, and it's worth every penny and then some - Kreiger smokes on this one.
The liner notes include detailed technical info about the recording - tape machines, consoles, mikes, tape stocks - they even go into the anomaly of how the recorders they used slowed down toward the end of the reels (they were not servo-controlled). They staggered the start of the various recorders to insure that they got every note, with the result that the masters had to be speed-corrected to make the first half of a song match the second when they spread over two tapes.
Of interest to this board is a liner note that the multitracks were digitally mixed, edited, and mastered to stereo and 5.1 surround. I checked All Music and the Doors website and could find no indication that the surround mix was released in any form, including DVD video, anywhere in the world. I'm guessing that the concerts were filmed, because Botnick wrote that it was not customary at the time to have a closed-circuit video monitor backstage to see what was going on out front, implying that there were cameras running.
Has anyone else ever heard of these mixes? The stereo sound is excellent, and I'd hazard a guess that the surround mixes would be classic.
The liner notes include detailed technical info about the recording - tape machines, consoles, mikes, tape stocks - they even go into the anomaly of how the recorders they used slowed down toward the end of the reels (they were not servo-controlled). They staggered the start of the various recorders to insure that they got every note, with the result that the masters had to be speed-corrected to make the first half of a song match the second when they spread over two tapes.
Of interest to this board is a liner note that the multitracks were digitally mixed, edited, and mastered to stereo and 5.1 surround. I checked All Music and the Doors website and could find no indication that the surround mix was released in any form, including DVD video, anywhere in the world. I'm guessing that the concerts were filmed, because Botnick wrote that it was not customary at the time to have a closed-circuit video monitor backstage to see what was going on out front, implying that there were cameras running.
Has anyone else ever heard of these mixes? The stereo sound is excellent, and I'd hazard a guess that the surround mixes would be classic.
