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Too bad. She really has a killer voice, for real. What I don't understand is
how a professional audio company hired to do a huge gig like that...millions
and millions of people watching...cannot figure out how to raise her mic and
monitor levels.
-Ben
"John O" <johno@#no^spam&heathkit.com> wrote in message
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> > What happened to Kelly Clarkson? She can actually sing unlike A.
Simpson.
> >
>
> Her mike started out dead, or almost dead, and she's shaking her
> head/touching her ear to tell the monitor monkey that it's not right. I'm
> thinking...they'll fix this once they find the right knob, but no. The
> chorus kicks in, and her soundtrack kicks ass. She's screaming away, and
> back to the next verse...very low mic levels again. It was too obvious
what
> was real and what was recorded. She marched on, a bit distressed, but
> otherwise unfazed. Lots of cheers. No big deal, because a lot of us saw
her
> sing for real on that show, and she's Got Pipes.
> The country guy kinda mumbles anyway, so he was almost completely lost in
> the soup...except for the pre-recorded parts.
> Ashlee...it was priceless. Someday VH1 is going to have a ball with this.
>
> -John O
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