Screwed on Ebay

[JD]

I recently purchased a bootleg CD from EBay and I wanted to warn everyone to avoid Quality Treasure Chest at [e-mail]

He didn't list his Houston 2000 as a soundboard show so I emailed him and he told me it was soundboard. When I received the show I found out it was an audience recording. He also took three weeks to mail it and lied to me twice saying it was in the mail. Please email him and let him know you can't f**k a Who fan. JD

[JillKristen]

Sorry you got scr@#ed. I don't know much about bootlegs, but what is soundboard? How is it different from an audience recording?

JK

[JD]

The audio is directly from the mixing desk, fm broadcast, in-house video, ect. The higher quality ones sound as good as an official release. JD

[Ineedanewname]

JD said:

The audio is directly from the mixing desk, fm broadcast, in-house video, ect. The higher quality ones sound as good as an official release. JD

.....whilst an audience recording is just captured on a hand-held recorder - by an audience member - and as a result can either sound like it was recorded from the car-park outside the venue, or be fairly near to an 'ok' soundboard quality. Generally speaking audience recordings sit somewhere between those two poles. It all depends on the equipment used, distance from the PA, venue, luck, etc etc.

I have one non-Who audience boot where the sound is probably only a little below soundboard, very good quality. However, there's a guy obviously located right next to the taper who spends the best part of half an hour loudly attempting to chat up two even louder cockney girls, with everything that's said being louder than the music.

[boniemaronie]

some bootlegs would sound better if they were recorded in the car park outside