Queen I Box Set Announced - Pre-Release Discussion Only

I'm not an expert in such matters, but what's the difference between a soundboard recording and what we hear, for example, in official releases (without mentioning the word autotune and so on)? I'm just curious how satisfactory the quality of soundboards recordings is.
It's just incredibly interesting to hear Hangman from a concert that is not available online.I wonder if we'll live to listening to the full 1976 San Diego concert.

It's a bit lazy but someone obviously thought it was a good idea. Not something significant to complain about though, IMO.

Soundboards are just what comes out the mixing board to go out over the PA from what I understand, so it should be very high quality, it won't sound as large as a multitrack recording would since it'll have no aud mics.

Just quickly looking on Google, I can't see it for sale anywhere other than on the official Queenonline Store. But £14.99 for a 7" single, plus shipping costs is taking the piss!

Not necessarily - it depends on how things are cabled up.

Sometimes it's just the front of house mix sent to a tape machine, but sometimes the mixing board can send an entirely different auxiliary mix to tape (if the board is equipped to do so).

The Killer Queen single was 49p when I bought it in 1974! 😁

Anyone notice the queenonline instagram preview of my fairy king, they have auto tuned rogers voice on the ahhhhhs

Ooof, snapped the vocals right to the pitch line. Takes out so much of the character. My curiosity will get the best of me and I'll listen to everything. But. Ugh.

Looks like TNCD is one single for Box Set

Just got back from convention (early).
Unfortunately Mad The Swine is exactly as we've heard it before, ie, it just drops in with "been here before".
Greg says that's how it was recorded, so those old rumours that it segued from GKR with the drums and which necessitated the trimming of "I've" are incorrect.
OR so we are to believe.
Frankly it's a shame.

Don't ask how the songs he played sounded, the PA system is bass heavy making the drums as the predominant sound - which surely won't be right as Brian would never allow it!

No. The Imperial College tracks were NOT played.

There was very little said about the restoration/remixing of the album, no clues as to what the next one will be as they haven't decided anything yet (hmmm....), and, as expected, the book sounds like it is another book of photos with very lttle text, so again, nothing like the tome's that come with the Beatles Boxsets.
Apparantly everything that was written for the book was removed, but will appear somewhere - most likely online I reckon.
Such a shame. I bet xxxx would have loved for his work to be in printed format. I know I would.

Do we know anything about the interview/talk with John Anthony, Brian and Roger, which took place in April or May? Is that included in the book?

I wonder if they played Hangman 

I 100% believe that. Mad The Swine's mix sounds absolutely nothing like anything else from 1973, and I've always thought this. Even listening to it alongside the 2011 remasters, the sound is super jarring.
I always just assumed it was a new multi-track mix that they did for its release as a B-Side. That would make the "I've" theory redundant, as even if there was a GKR transition, the "I've" could just be added into the mix on its own.

A new multitrack mix for 1991 would also make sense with the timeline as the 1991 bonus remixes of KYA and Liar were the same year, which means that was probably around the time that Queen's back catalogue of multi-tracks got digitized.

That's extremely disappointing. For a lot of people, this will be a dealbreaker, as the book in a box set is the right place to publish such things. Are they trying to lose buyers ?