White Room / The Work DVDs (me too !)
Finally those two arrived today. Just been able to take a look at The Work so far - will take some time to watch both DVDs completely. From what I have seen so far... (again, The Work only) PRO - The picture. Incredible! Just compare the lousy J&A avi version with the one on this DVD - you will be blown away! CON - The sound. Ok, nice idea to have the complete original material on DVD, but why did no one think about overdubbing the superior picture with sound directly from CD ? Especially the low frequencies on IGUN are all washed up. (Madrugada Eterna being an exception of course) What remains is a cool addition to every fan's collection and finally a good reason to throw away those old Video CDs everyone made for themselves. The sound isn't as good as the picture, given that the original creator wanted to preserve all the original material. Maybe a suggestion for a further version... :-) A complete review will follow as soon as I watched both of them. --- Thomas Touzimsky
I would have thought there is a potential problem with taking the audio from CD, in that promo videos often use an exclusive audio edit, often different to all CD versions including the standard 'radio edit'. Even if it differs by just a few seconds or a verse or chant of 'Mu Mu' this would make the two impossible to synchronise. I know they aren't always different, but I remember getting a copy of 'Indie Top 20' on video years ago which included the 'Kylie' promo...but the sound was f***ed. I tried dubbing various edits of the track onto the VHS tape but none would quite 'fit'. I'm quite happy to be corrected on this subject, and it may be that all the old video promos use the standard radio edit including Kylie (in which case I was doing something wrong or there was a difference in pitch/speed between the two but I know for a fact that with other bands the video edit is slightly different. Thomas Touzimsky <thomas@klf.de> wrote: Finally those two arrived today. Just been able to take a look at The Work so far - will take some time to watch both DVDs completely. From what I have seen so far... (again, The Work only) PRO - The picture. Incredible! Just compare the lousy J&A avi version with the one on this DVD - you will be blown away! CON - The sound. Ok, nice idea to have the complete original material on DVD, but why did no one think about overdubbing the superior picture with sound directly from CD ? Especially the low frequencies on IGUN are all washed up. (Madrugada Eterna being an exception of course) What remains is a cool addition to every fan's collection and finally a good reason to throw away those old Video CDs everyone made for themselves. The sound isn't as good as the picture, given that the original creator wanted to preserve all the original material. Maybe a suggestion for a further version... :-) A complete review will follow as soon as I watched both of them. --- Thomas Touzimsky _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
The other problem of course is that unless you have quite sophisticated video equipment you'll probably find that the tape doesn't play at an absolutely constant speed. The same applies to CD players (again, unless you use studio-quality ones -- DATs are much more reliable here), consequently getting and keeping the two in sync will be very difficult.
I know they aren't always different, but I remember getting a copy of 'Indie Top 20' on video years ago which included the 'Kylie' promo...but the sound was f***ed. I tried dubbing various edits of > the track onto the VHS tape but none would quite 'fit'.
I wonder if its the same version of the track thats on the Indie Top 20 2xLp i have.
Well probably very similar but not exactly the same...that was my point =) I recently managed to get another copy of the video via eBay anyway...also contains other faves of mine Spacemen 3, Loop and the Telescopes...great stuff! Incidentally has anyone ever noticed that an Indie Top 20 compilation (sadly i foget which one) is the only way of getting WTIL Echo and the Bunnymen remix on CD? Personally i rarely hear this mix mentioned but it's one of my faves...and as MP3s of the Moody Boys 12" seem to be fairly 'quiet' I think this is worth seeking out! Shilo Maggi <shilo101@wamail.net> wrote:
I know they aren't always different, but I remember getting a copy of 'Indie Top 20' on video years ago which included the 'Kylie' promo...but the sound was f***ed. I tried dubbing various edits of > the track onto the VHS tape but none would quite 'fit'.
I wonder if its the same version of the track thats on the Indie Top 20 2xLp i have. _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
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