Shania DID sing live (mostly)

[Fordw]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2077781/

[ShaniaguyUSA]

hmmm...sounds like it might just be good p.r. for shania, because after listening to "Man! I feel Like a Woman!" and "Up!" a million times on CD, a real fan can easily distinguish between the CD vocals and any live vocals. The vocals at the half-time show were EXACT to the CD recordings...every little sound. But it's all good. I'm over it, and I guess it's a good thing that people are writing stuff like that. =)

[Raider]

Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT



Shania Twain: Live or Memorex?

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

Next question?

Explainer thanks Gary Bongiovanni of Pollstar magazine, Albert Leccese of Audio Analysts, and Paul Liszewski of AudioTek Corp.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2077781/

[angeleyes10803]

thank you i think we have this problem solved i mean its there in black and white. i took journalism i know you have to do research and print or write the truth or be suied i dont think that someone would print or write somthing thats not true. i mean come on guys did you really think shania would lypsinc i dont

angeleyes

[Raider]

Oops! :D

[AnyMan]

Yes I seen this article too! However the videotape does not lie and I have her peformance on tape.

[talkalot24]

I do too. The article explains the only spot in which it looks like she is lip synching.

[SHANIANUTS!]

http://groups.msn.com/FansiteofShaniaTwain/Documents/IGGG.gif

Lets all sing along:

Man I Feel Like A Woman

I'm going out tonight,
I'm feelin' alright
Gonna let it all hang out
Wanna make some noise,
Really raise my voice
Yeah, I wanna scream and shout


No inhibitions, make no conditions
Get a little outta line
I ain't gonna act politically correct
I only wanna have a good time


The best thing about being a woman
Is the prerogative to have
A little fun and


Oh, go totally crazy, forget I'm a lady
Men's shirts, short skirts
Oh, really go wild,
Yeah, doin' it in style
Oh, get in the action,
Feel the attraction
Color my hair-do what I dare
Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free,
Yeah, to feel the way I feel
Man! I feel like a woman!


The girls need a break,
Tonight we're gonna take
The chance to get out on the town
We don't need romance,
We only wanna dance
We're gonna let our hair hang down


I get totally crazy
Can you feel it
Come, come, come on baby
I feel like a woman
Shania Twain


Quotes by Shania Twain


Country music is still your grandpa's
music, but it's also your daughter's
music. It's getting bigger and better
all the time and I'm glad to be a
part of it.
Shania Twain
I feel sexy when I get out of the tub,
your skin is fresh and you've put up
your hair without looking.
Shania Twain


Later in my life, I'm going to look
back and smile and be very fulfilled.
I know that if I don't give it my all
right now I'll regret it later. That's
very important to me, because I've
worked all my life to have this.
Shania Twain


Country music is still your grandpa's music,
but it's also your daughter's music. It's
getting bigger and better all the time and
I'm glad to be a part of it.
Shania Twain


I feel sexy when I get out of the tub
your skin is fresh and you've put up your
hair without looking.
Shania Twain


I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange,
and I may only have put one on Mutt.
I mean, I'd never heard of such a name.
I'm sure he must've thought that was quite
funny. He must've known from that
autograph, right off the bat, that
I had no idea who he was.
Shania Twain



It makes me very excited to know that I
might be in someone's record collection
who has no other country records. And
then at the same time, I'm in another
record collection of people who just
listen to country music and they
wouldn't dare listen to anything else.
They both have my record. I'm very
flattered by that. Isn't it great that
music can cross those boundaries?
Shania Twain


It was just like a dream. I could have
ended up with an album that's not all
that different from anything else
coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the
difference. He took these songs, my
attitude, my creativity, and colored
them in a way that is unique.
Shania Twain


My goal is to appeal to as many people
as I can. I'm not looking to leave
country, but I do want to have more
international success.
Shania Twain


The only reason that you do visual is
solely for the visual. That's the only
reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
Shania Twain


Without a doubt, the best way to get to
know me is through my music.
Shania Twain


Writing is very much a playground
an artistic playground.
It's the most fun thing I do.
Shania Twain

[shaniarools]

kudos for longest post ever! still can't see it, though!

[Cheyenne55]

Originally posted by Raider
Oops! :D

And yet, if Shania sang live and sounded like No doubt lead singer, some around here would have a flying fit, like the AMA's or Jay Leno, how she forgot how to sing. Yet no-body anywhere has bashed the Chicks for their wonderful lip synch song. Funny how most of us knew after 37 super bowls, no-body sings live.

The so called fans. :uhh:

This has become a Shania Bashing forum and it's getting old. I joined to have fun, talk about the positive things and enjoy being a fan. That seems to be getting harder to do around here. And thats a sad thing.

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by shaniarools
kudos for longest post ever! still can't see it, though! Is it you ancient school computer's fault?:p

[shaniarools]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
Is it you ancient school computer's fault?:p

Nope. I'm at home now. It's my ancient laptop's fault. Can you believe that my dad has ten laptops from work here, andI'm stuck using the crappiest one!?! I REALLY want to see this little Shania thing!!!

[SHANIANUTS!]

I hear her now:

http://groups.msn.com/FansiteofShaniaTwain/Documents/IGGG.gifhttp://groups.msn.com/FansiteofShaniaTwain/Documents/IGGG.gif

[SHANIANUTS!]

It is not a thing!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a Shania caricature in her Super Bowl garb singing and playing her guitar while the words to IGGG scroll by:)

[SHANIANUTS!]

It is cuter than desktop shania but unfortunately mute!

[shaniarools]

Originally posted by SHANIANUTS!
It is not a thing!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a Shania caricature in her Super Bowl garb singing and playing her guitar while the words to IGGG scroll by:)

Wow. Someone is way to attached to his Shania thing. Oh, that sounds wrong.

BTW, I can see it now. I think I had to log in to msn to see it.

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by shaniarools
Wow. Someone is way to attached to his Shania thing. Oh, that sounds wrong.

BTW, I can see it now. I think I had to log in to msn to see it. :funny: :funny: :funny: :funny:I ma ynnuf taht yaw!!!!


I get attached to sgniht! :p

Glad you can see her in all her splendor:


http://groups.msn.com/FansiteofShaniaTwain/Documents/IGGG.gif

[SHANIANUTS!]

I thought it was paederasty!

[shaniarools]

Thats the British spelling. Fine, I'll change it, being Canadian and all...

[SHANIANUTS!]

..actually if you wanna get really cute spell it:

ytsaredeap :funny:

[razorbac]

thats cute Bob :)

[SHANIANUTS!]

thank magicil wizard - see picture board - the man is a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and




SHANIAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLS

[SHANIANUTS!]

Originally posted by talkalot24
I do too. The article explains the only spot in which it looks like she is lip synching. You betcha!!!!!!!

[froush]

I assume now that Shania's postman in Switzerland is going to get a hernia delivering the sacks and sacks of apologies from Shania bashers around the world?

Isn't it amazing that in the stampede to be critical of Shania's alleged lip-sycnhing in the Super Bowl, virtually no one in the media even bothered to investigate the possibility that she sang live?

If that doesn't show a rampant predisposition to an anti-Shania mindset, nothing will.

Unfortunately, the truth will never get past the already well-established false fact that Shania lipsynched.

My mindeset Monday morning that Shania lipsynched Sunday: SO WHAT!!!!
My mindset today that there is an extremely strong possibility that she sang live: WAY TO GO, GIRL. YOU'VE BAMBOOZLED YOUR CRITICS FOR THE ONE-ZILLIONTH TIME.

[shaniajovi fan]

I was jusr about to post this- sounds credible to me and it makes me feel better about it. Thanks!

[AngelGuy]

Once again, the Shania bashers end up looking like total fools. :)

[froush]

Here is what amazing. If any of us had suggested on this forum Monday the live scenario that in fact happened, others would have called up hopelessly naive in our mindset in defending Shania.

[German Fan]

If you hear her at the superbowl again, and then from the Cd the tracks, you'll hear the different, so I think also that it was recorded before!

[AScountry]

But I thought I would post it anyways. It's from a post at Cmt.com message forum. Anyways, I'm new here and support Shania no matter if she lip syncs or not. She put on an amazing performance at the Super-bowl. The Shania bashers are nip picky and will find anything to bash her on but they fail to give her credit when it's due. Anyways enjoy the article.


From slate dot com: producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

[Just-a-Fan]

Being a good (and true!) fan, I had just assumed that if she was actually lip-syncing then there would have been a good reason for it; whether technical or health, or whatever. So it was good with me, I trust her judgement in these things since she, and her support people, know much more about these things than I do. However, the following quote...
Originally posted by Raider
<snip>(That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)<snip>
...absolutely clinches the whole thing for me. She didn't lip-sync at all, so there's not even anything to argue about.

BTW, she's just awesome!! :D

[shaniafan26726]

I'm kinda confused! When Shania came out and sang Man! I feel Like a Woman! Was Shania singing live or singing to her pre-recorded track? Because it sounds like UP! was sung to her pre-recorded track. I'm just really confused! Somebody help!

[Just-a-Fan]

Originally posted by shaniafan26726
I'm kinda confused! When Shania came out and sang Man! I feel Like a Woman! Was Shania singing live or singing to her pre-recorded track? Because it sounds like UP! was sung to her pre-recorded track. I'm just really confused! Somebody help! From the article posted, I gather that her vocals where live, but the backup vocals and instrumentation were pre-recorded (maybe from the previous day's rehearsals to make them authentic sounding?), and they have a track of her vocals ready just in case something goes wrong (which it apparently did briefly when she was having too much fun with the fans!).

[shaniafan26726]

OH! So Man! I feel Like A Woman was totally live, and UP! was pre-recorded. But how did they know that they were gonna need the tape of UP! Did they put it right in, or did they wait and put it in until she got down with the fans. That part confuses me.

[Esther]

I don't know but I believe she did :):)

[MichaelAdoresSh]

:scowl: :) As I posted Monday (see unedited posts) I had believed I saw Shania indeed singing live. After reading the hysteria generated on these boards regarding the point during “up” when she was not singing I was sure it was just mixing/production issues. This of course has been verified by no less than the Producer Paul Liszewski after Slate magazine looked into the matter at the behest of these frantic “Fans”.

[Just-a-Fan]

Originally posted by shaniafan26726
OH! So Man! I feel Like A Woman was totally live, and UP! was pre-recorded. <snip> That's not what I understood the article to be saying. Rather, it seems to be saying that Shania herself was live, but the music and accompanying (backup) vocals were pre-recorded -- and this was for both MIFLAW and UP!.

[Just-a-Fan]

The article also seems to be saying that the band was there for show only, we weren't hearing them play.

[lotus]

FYI - I need not say more.


Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT



Shania Twain: Live or Memorex?

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

[canoilers]

Just like the grey cup and I've talked to the guy who set up and ran all the equipment and he said she was live.:p

[AnyMan]

Old News

[Babee Shania]

Originally posted by canoilers
Just like the grey cup and I've talked to the guy who set up and ran all the equipment and he said she was live.:p
lol i always believed you :p

[Erich]

A friend of mine sent me the following reference that I hope will restore the fan's faith in Shania's LIVE performance at the Super Bowl.

Once again, it's been too long since I have been able to log on so if this has already been posted, forgive me, but this should end the lip-synch controversy once and for all. SHE SANG LIVE!!!!

Here is the reference site - www.slate.msn.com/id/2077781/

and here is the article in it's entirety. ENJOY!!!


Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT



Shania Twain: Live or Memorex?

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

[Londo]

Oh I just found an article that proves she didn’t lip sync. Here it is.
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Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT



Shania Twain: Live or Memorex?

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

[Londo]

Hey did you here she didn’t lip sync? Here’s the article that proves it:



Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT



Shania Twain: Live or Memorex?

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

[Londo]

I was browsing the other day and look what I found.

____________________________________


Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT



Shania Twain: Live or Memorex?

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

[FinnFreak]

I guess now we all have finally got the message..?

:D


FinnFreak - ;)
Once upon a time there was a blind Finn, a deaf Dane and a Swede in a wheelchair.
Together they found a bottle which happened to contain a genie,
who to reward his release promised each one wish.
The Finn got to wish first. Soon he cried:
- I can see! I can see!
Then it was the Dane's turn, and soon another cry was heared:
- I can hear! I can hear!
The Swede was the last to make a wish. And soon he cried:
- Studded tires! Studded tires!

[UP!_Boi]

I don't think anyone even stopped to think that with a lot of live events like that sometime the sound and audio timing are off and you'll see there lips move then the words come out a few minutes later. It happens often on WWE wrestling. It's just mind boggling on how people are quick to jump on some one and want to bring them down without looking in to the matter. I argued with my bestfriend that she was singing and I knew Up she definatly was singing live cause to me it didn't sound like the album version. I think many people owe her an apology and even if she did lyp sync so what.