Great concert considering the short time they had to rehearse these songs.

One gripe though, Sting’s voice sounded strained. As a sound engineer myself, I am perplexed as to why Sting refuses to use any vocal enhancements that all professional singers use on stage. Outside of the normal reverb/ maybe compression, some artistes use machines like a VP9000 to fatten their vocals. Sting used some effects on the DVD recording but on tour, it’s totally flat. Why does Sting tour with such raw vocals? This might work if his engineer mixed his vocals well (which he does not) but I am not sure if Sting is to blame or his sound engineer. I find it hard to believe a professional engineer would have someone of Sting’s status sound so raw and I wonder if these are ridiculous instructions coming from Sting? The high notes? The longer Sting tours, the longer his voice takes to warm up, he had a hard time on Inside, this tour might take 5 songs for him to feel comfortable and the engineer to mix it right. Another beef with this engineer, all I heard were guitars, drums and bass, with the bass signal extremely high during Whenever I Say Your Name, another mistake? I never heard the percussionist from Morocco and barely any Jason Rebello, including his normally great keyboards in Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. Is Sting’s sound engineer deaf?

The show sounded almost like a Police concert, guitar, bass, drums, many classics. Here’s the Atlanta radio setlist,

Send Your Love

Message in a Bottle

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Inside

Whenever I say Your Name

Synchronicity II

Roxanne

If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

Every Breath You Take

Fragile

This tour seems like it would be similar to the Ten Summoners Tales tour, more rock and pop.

Great show overall. I recorded a clean copy directly to CD from the radio, anyone interested in trading, send me an email at trinisocalover@yahoo.com , no sales, only trades.

Trini