Sounds INCREDIBLE, but the overlap between him singing and screaming just tells me it's a lot of lip-synching. Sounds like he's singing most of it, but I don't think he's screaming- there's parts with harmony where no one else is on a mic. That, plus the scream/sing overlap- Love Craig and Chiodos, but just something I noticed with one of my favorite songs and all of the WWWY videos. Still killer-
I actually think he's doing the screaming, but not most of the singing. Craig's scream vocals have always been insane live, but his singing has always been pitchy during live performances. The singing in this is WAY too perfect to be live and untracked.
Lots of bands have backing tracks these days to fill in the gaps so they don't have to have a bunch of extra musicians for one or two tracks. What Craig did here was egregious. He's barely singing, and you can easily tell when he uses the "take the mic a bit away from your face to avoid clipping the audio" effect and absolutely no volume change occurs whatsoever. Props to the sound guy for cutting the backing vox when he actually did fill in with dialogue or a few actual notes here and there. But this isn't Chiodos. This is Chiodos*, and it's a fucking shame.
@@toddlawson8122 I think he's doing less than you think. Look at his body language during the part at the end - "a corpse lies lifeless, where X marks the spot (breath) at the bottom of the ocean floor" The (breath) happens when the mic is nowhere near his face. There would be no way that the mic would pick that up. Not a chance in hell.
@@brandonwendorf1 So I keep watching these videos and here is my theory of what happened... They got many of the original backtracks from the guy who mixed this album for this show. I have never seen Chiodos use backtracks before until now and since the original band is not there to play certain parts (mainly their keyboardist), they went a little overboard with all the tracks they got isolated. I can tell that they also used the original guitar stems to tone match them for the show also. Because these guitar tones are almost identical to the albums which I think is really fucking cool because that guitar tone is iconic sounding. But I think Craig saw the opportunity to fill all that empty space with all these harmonies, layers, and vocal throws and hearing them in the tracks when his mouth isn't at the mic is making you think that he's not singing even though he actually is. When I was in a band, I was accused of the exact same thing but I knew I was singing the whole time but I could completely see from the audience's perspective how it all seems. Another reason, is that because technology has gotten so good, you can make the live sound sound so good that to get the vocals to match up, they have to be very compressed like they would be in an album but that is very hard to do live with the high potential for feedback and so having a vocal main layered with the signal that isn't as compressed is a good idea because the track can't feedback because its a track but your main vocal is still there and can duck the phantom main vocal when you're singing and it still seems like you're singing, which you are, but like I said, from a layman audience's perspective, it seems like you're just trying to "cheat". But I know Craig doesn't need to cheat because I heard him sing some of these songs with an acoustic guitar about a year ago at a small coffee shop venue and he sounded fucking great. I think their record label really shelled out a lot of money to hook them up and try to elevate their live sound and they just went a little too nuts with it. I think they could have went more bare bones on his voice and it would have sounded excellent still. But whatever, I was just happy to see the Chiodos cover band + Craig play these awesome songs and I had a great time during day 2 watching them play. Day 2 was almost flawless for Chiodos.
Sounds INCREDIBLE, but the overlap between him singing and screaming just tells me it's a lot of lip-synching. Sounds like he's singing most of it, but I don't think he's screaming- there's parts with harmony where no one else is on a mic. That, plus the scream/sing overlap-
Love Craig and Chiodos, but just something I noticed with one of my favorite songs and all of the WWWY videos. Still killer-
I actually think he's doing the screaming, but not most of the singing. Craig's scream vocals have always been insane live, but his singing has always been pitchy during live performances. The singing in this is WAY too perfect to be live and untracked.
Lots of bands have backing tracks these days to fill in the gaps so they don't have to have a bunch of extra musicians for one or two tracks.
What Craig did here was egregious. He's barely singing, and you can easily tell when he uses the "take the mic a bit away from your face to avoid clipping the audio" effect and absolutely no volume change occurs whatsoever.
Props to the sound guy for cutting the backing vox when he actually did fill in with dialogue or a few actual notes here and there. But this isn't Chiodos. This is Chiodos*, and it's a fucking shame.
@@toddlawson8122 I think he's doing less than you think. Look at his body language during the part at the end - "a corpse lies lifeless, where X marks the spot (breath) at the bottom of the ocean floor"
The (breath) happens when the mic is nowhere near his face. There would be no way that the mic would pick that up. Not a chance in hell.
@@brandonwendorf1 So I keep watching these videos and here is my theory of what happened... They got many of the original backtracks from the guy who mixed this album for this show. I have never seen Chiodos use backtracks before until now and since the original band is not there to play certain parts (mainly their keyboardist), they went a little overboard with all the tracks they got isolated. I can tell that they also used the original guitar stems to tone match them for the show also. Because these guitar tones are almost identical to the albums which I think is really fucking cool because that guitar tone is iconic sounding. But I think Craig saw the opportunity to fill all that empty space with all these harmonies, layers, and vocal throws and hearing them in the tracks when his mouth isn't at the mic is making you think that he's not singing even though he actually is.
When I was in a band, I was accused of the exact same thing but I knew I was singing the whole time but I could completely see from the audience's perspective how it all seems.
Another reason, is that because technology has gotten so good, you can make the live sound sound so good that to get the vocals to match up, they have to be very compressed like they would be in an album but that is very hard to do live with the high potential for feedback and so having a vocal main layered with the signal that isn't as compressed is a good idea because the track can't feedback because its a track but your main vocal is still there and can duck the phantom main vocal when you're singing and it still seems like you're singing, which you are, but like I said, from a layman audience's perspective, it seems like you're just trying to "cheat". But I know Craig doesn't need to cheat because I heard him sing some of these songs with an acoustic guitar about a year ago at a small coffee shop venue and he sounded fucking great.
I think their record label really shelled out a lot of money to hook them up and try to elevate their live sound and they just went a little too nuts with it. I think they could have went more bare bones on his voice and it would have sounded excellent still. But whatever, I was just happy to see the Chiodos cover band + Craig play these awesome songs and I had a great time during day 2 watching them play. Day 2 was almost flawless for Chiodos.
Yeah I’ve seen chiodos live in the olden days and Craig never sounded this perfect singing. The singing sounds too much like the album recording.
His voice is still so good, I don’t understand why the backing track was SO prominent for this show.
Fck yea
Sounds like a backing track and he’s lip syncing damn that’s sad
Damn was he really lip syncing that much?
Bruh