[Namie Amuro] Namie's singing technique...

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I was watching Namie Amuro's Play Tour 2007 concert for the first time last evening, and it occurred to me that, despite the video file having the 5.1 mix track, it sounded *bad* throughout. As in, poorly mixed - at times, you can barely hear her own vocals over the music or the prerecorded background vocals.

It also occurred to me that throughout this particular concert, she keeps waving the microphone in front of her mouth and away from it to "control" her volume as she's holding a note and wants to make it sound louder or softer - but does it very poorly. Like a directional microphone that's too sensitive and dropping off too early.

I have no background in sound engineering or recording or even singing techniques. But I've been made to understand however that a singer should always hold the microphone *very* close to his/her mouth, let *it* capture all it can, and then let the audio engineers work out the rest. But, if she keeps holding it at different distances, there's very little that is captured and can be "corrected". I've been watching a lot of concerts lately from herself, Koda Kumi and Ayu, and it seems to me that they all generally follow this rule. This one's an exception.

I'm sure I'm explaining this rather poorly, like I said, I have no background in this sort of thing, but this is the first time I've noticed her doing this throughout an entire concert, and I dare say this is by far the worst-sounding concert I've ever heard--given that it's a professionally mastered one. I'd expect this perhaps from some cheap TV production or a live outdoors event, but not a commercial Blu-ray.

Has anyone else noticed this from this particular concert? I'm certainly not just imagining it.