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All choirs were pre-recorded

posted 16 years ago by john_brough
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This show was horrible. First of all, it had NOTHING to do with choirs, it was just a glorified American Idol competition - with back up singers, which were all pre-recorded. The lead singers were live, but that was all. The celebrity "conductors" were just figure heads, any of the actual singing, training, recording sessions were all conducted by professionals in the industry earlier in the week. Don't be fooled by clever TV productions - 90% of all live-to-air music productions are lip-synced.

[–] mechugena 16 years ago

I'll have to disagree. I have a relative who was in one of the choirs, and he assured me that everything was live.

[–] john_brough 16 years ago

Disagree all you like - what you heard was prerecorded. They were singing live, yes, but no producer of a live TV show would risk an all out "live" performance without "sweetening" the sound with prerecorded tracks, which is all you hear on the TV, in the studio it would sound quite different. All of this could be done without the choirs knowledge.

I'm not saying this to be controversial - I'm in the industry - it's all done like this (note the ear monitors in the "conductors" ears ... that's the "click track". Keeps it all together. Otherwise it would make for VERY BAD TV (as opposed to the moderately horrible TV it already was).

Oh well, they'll make millions on it, that's what's important I guess.

[–] wdaher 16 years ago

If it's sweetened they did a pretty lousy job.

I watched all four episodes (and have rewatched quite a few of the performances) and noted several places that weren't right that would easily have been fixed by sweetening - places that I though were normal for a non professional choir to be weak.

Or maybe they just left those in so people think it's not sweetened?

[–] Joey_Buttapopcorn 16 years ago

Good thing the show wasn't on ABC or you'd be accusing them of using Disney animatronics.

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[–] DoctorStrangelove 16 years ago

Of course they were singing live onstage. What people have said in this thread is, that's NOT exactly what the TV viewer heard.

Lachey's team didn't exist before this show - so no, they weren't "the most recogniseable" and that's not why they won... although Patti's unlikeability probably DID have something to do with her loss.

Oh and why can't you give details? The show's been aired. Nobody cares what you did at this point... sounds like you're just putting on airs.

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[–] john_brough 16 years ago

Team Lachey's team won because they were the only ones who sang as a "CHOIR" not as a backup choir to someone's American Idol wannabe lead singer.

No one was robbed - it was wasted TV energy - should have just given the money up front and not worried about the stupid contest.

And the Televised sound was most definitely not only the "live" sound. Sorry. Would have sounded like poo. Even more pooy than it already was.

[–] tmontyb 16 years ago

I will agree with the part about Lachey's team singing as a "CHOIR".

[–] Zorah 16 years ago

This show reminded me of a production my college does every year. All the group singing is pre-recorded. We sang live onstage during the performance along with a backup recording to make it sound super good.

One thing though...if it was all pre-recorded then why did they *still* sound like crap? You'd think they would've, ya know, fixed that.

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