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Originally Posted by AliceLover
David- Manchester 1990 was also a soundboard and listen to that crowd reaction.
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I think some people from England said that was a BBC-2 radio broadcast pilfered by some enterprising bootlegger. (The original CD-R package doesn't specify.) To tell the truth, it doesn't even sound like an FM radio broadcast to me -- it sounds a bit dirtier. But so does the '88 German FM broadcast, so maybe that's just the way live rock radio is over there.
I think some fans throw that word "soundboard" around hither & thither (some fans have called the Fresno 12-10-87 show a soundboard, although it was a radio broadcast for Westwood One). I've always thought the true soundboards (Memphis '82, Denver '82, Oakland '82, Yokohama '80, Little Rock '77, Baton Rouge '78, etc.) tend to have low crowd noise because these recordings are direct (i.e., through cables instead of mics) recordings straight to tape (or CD-R these days) via the soundboard, or mixing board, itself. The levels are set exactly at where the soundguys "played" the mixing board -- you may not be hearing what you'd hear FOH, for example. That would include audience noise, which can be microphoned for recording by a recording unit for radio broadcast, but the mixing board is picking up only peripheral, or secondary, audience noise (essentially anything that finds its way into the singers' mics). My band had a soundboard recording made of a recent gig, & because it's taped direct through the mixing board, the audience stuff sounds very distant & very low in relation to the band.