(sorry it took me almost a full month to get back to my own thread)
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Originally Posted by AJFmzk
I have noticed that mixing is poor when it comes to vocals on some of her dvds, the background vocals take over the mix and it's hard to hear her live vocals.
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You've probably done a better job explaining it with this one sentence than I tried to get across with my entire post. It's like I'm hearing more of the pre-recorded background vocals than the life singing.
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Originally Posted by AJFmzk
Anyway, that's just my two cents on the technical aspects. Sorry for the super long post but I tend to write lengthy explanations for things. :p
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No need to apologize, I appreciate the insight.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this. Over the past few months I've been listening to a lot of Ayu's/Namie's/Koda Kumi's concerts, and this one stands out - although I think at this point I'll say I've only noticed it with Namie's concerts--and more than one.
However - in hindsight - I'll point this out: The Namie concerts I've been watching are Blu-ray rips that only have the 5.1 mix, and I've been listening with VLC on a system that's only got stereo speakers. Ordinarily, VLC would switch to the stereo mix, but it's not part of the rip at all. VLC *should* be doing a good job downmixing it in stereo, but I'm starting to think the main vocal track is simply not being played back, so what I'm hearing might just be the left and right channels. It would certainly explain a lot. Though right now I can't prove this is what's going on.
I do have a full surround system, but my receiver is so old I can't think of a way I could get the MKV file, on my computer, playing through it with the full 6 channels, unless I burn either a DVD or Blu-ray.
I'll post a follow-up if I ever do that and notice an improvement. Could be a VLC setting for all I know, although it's generally been doing a fine job playing 5.1 tracks with only two speakers.