The Chain Harmonies Live

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Originally Posted by WildHearted

I don't think it's that Christine's voice is mixed down (the center channel mixes are, as far as I know, merely the center channel of the studio version isolated from the left and right? If I'm wrong, someone correct me)... it's still very noticeable to my ear when you're listening to her part... it's just that she's doing a very good job of blending with them, meaning that you can hardly distinguish the separate voice at all, but the note she is singing is still coming through, if that makes sense. It's a good thing. That's how harmonies are meant to work.

Very much like Crosby Stills & Nash, as someone above said.

In choir, you strive for a perfect 'blend,' where hundreds of people can sound like one voice.

I get what you're saying. I was listening to the studio version of The Chain at the gym today and "heard" her voice--or sensed its presence--softening Lindsey's tenor and Stevie's twangy alto. But when they sing live, I can REALLY hear Christine--and I wonder why this is not the case on record. IN live performance, her high harmonies really stand out in a way they do not on the record. Perhaps it's because the other two voices sound different live as well...