Gackt announces intention to perform abroad

[SunshineSlayer]

http://community.livejournal.com/dears/1146692.html

There's a link with some further info.

Originally Posted by immel

I've loved Gackts music since 2001 and watching his concerts was the first times I truly enjoyed watching live performances. There's nothing, in my book, that can beat Gackts live voice.

As much as I love love love Gackt (he and Hyde are tied for my favorite jrockers^_^) I really have to question his concert dvds. They do appear to be heavily edited to me. Especially in the encores where he is breathing very heavily between songs and looks like he is about to faint, yet as soon as the song starts, all breath sounds are gone and he is singing as perfectly as ever. I don't think he lip synchs in his concerts but I do think they edit his vocals for the dvd to make them more "perfect." So I generally just judge Gackt by the TV performances that he is obviously singing live on. He still sounds amazing, just not as absolutely perfect as the DVDs would lead you to believe.

[immel]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

As much as I love love love Gackt (he and Hyde are tied for my favorite jrockers^_^) I really have to question his concert dvds. They do appear to be heavily edited to me. Especially in the encores where he is breathing very heavily between songs and looks like he is about to faint, yet as soon as the song starts, all breath sounds are gone and he is singing as perfectly as ever. I don't think he lip synchs in his concerts but I do think they edit his vocals for the dvd to make them more "perfect." So I generally just judge Gackt by the TV performances that he is obviously singing live on. He still sounds amazing, just not as absolutely perfect as the DVDs would lead you to believe.

Now that you say it, that's very likely. The DVD is edited - no doubt, all DVD releases are - but to what extent? The problem with a head mic is that if it's too close to your mouth your breathing will be heard very loudly. There is one concert where Ayu is using a head mic through a few songs and her breathing is heard in an annoying way, she seems bothered by it and is trying to adjust it now and then, it's from one of her older ones. It was a long time ago I last watched a Gackt performance, but I vaugely remember that he adjusts his head mic at those occassion, you can probably correct me if I'm right or wrong on this.

I've only seen a few of his TV live performances and it was a so long time ago that I can't really remember if he sounded different in those.

Comparing Ayus TV performances to her concerts there's a notable difference, but I don't think it's only the DVDs editing that create all of this difference. I belive she is warming her voice up a lot more before concerts than when shes going on TV.

On the DVD editing, looking at the TV version of CountDown Live 05-06 you can barely hear the audience at all, cheering or singing, just like when you are in the arena, all those sounds die away in the extreme sound level. But on the DVD they have edited this sound so that you can hear better how much noise the audience actually is making. Also, Ayumis voice is a lot clearer on the DVD, but other than it being clearer I don't think there's very much difference in how she is sounding. Maybe I should watch the TV version again, it was a long time ago.

Do you agree with me when I say, there's nothing what-so-ever that beats mirror live ?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by immel

There is one concert where Ayu is using a head mic through a few songs and her breathing is heard in an annoying way, she seems bothered by it and is trying to adjust it now and then, it's from one of her older ones.

I think you are refering to the CDL 02-03 - specifically durring the performance of Everywhere Nowhere. That DVD is deceiving as well. She was not fiddling with it because of breath sounds and what not, she was fiddling with it because the mic cut out completely. It went off and on throughout the whole song. What is on the DVD is a completely replaced audio track.

Originally Posted by immel

Now that you say it, that's very likely. The DVD is edited - no doubt, all DVD releases are - but to what extent? The problem with a head mic is that if it's too close to your mouth your breathing will be heard very loudly.

Well, that's how you know that Gackt's DVDs are edited. Between the songs where he is using a headset mic, you hear breathing sounds very heavily but as soon as the song starts those sounds entirely dissappear.

Originally Posted by immel

Do you agree with me when I say, there's nothing what-so-ever that beats mirror live ?

Correction: There is nothing better than seeing Gackt perform Mirror live and falling off-stage.

That clip cracks me up everytime. I just wish I could find a higher quality version of it. He just gets up as if nothing ever happened and that was no short fall either. If you listen closely, you can hear him say he is alright to a staff member.

Now that is an example of a real live performance while using a headset - you can clearly hear the differences between how he sounds durring the actual performance and how the DVD sounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLbNh...h=gackt%20fall (the fall happens around 2:05)

[immel]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Correction: There is nothing better than seeing Gackt perform Mirror live and falling off-stage.

Haha, that's true. On the better quality version, I had some svcd version of that performance that I got a very long time ago it was either 1*700MB or 2*700MB (bad memory, deleted it quite some time ago due to storage space issues), I don't know if you consider that better quality . It's on the DVD aswell, right?

Thanks for informing me on cdl 02-03, it was a long time ago since I watched it and when I did was before I knew about the troubles during this performance.