Dream Theater

Metalmarsh89 wrote: progbethyname wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: progbethyname wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: I'll be getting Live at Luna Park here in the mail in the next week. Has anyone else watched or listened to this live album? What do you think?I'll wait until I watch it before I come back to this thread. Hey Marsh. For the most part it's a lovely DVD recording, although during the softer acoustic sessions their is some syllabus issues with LaBrie's mic. He sounds a little bit too breathy on tracks The Silent Man, The spirit Carries on (just the beginning) and Beneath the surface. Other than that. Amazing performance by all, but like AlexDom said Rudess and Myung are a bit buried in the mix, but with a quality home Theater speaker system with a Harmon Kardon Receiver you can clean it up a bit. I tinker. :) Above all. I'd give it a 4/5. I bought the blue ray 60 page picture booklet edition with the 3 CDs as well and I love it. Also. My favourite performances were the solos!!! Mangini's drum solo was out cold! Could give Neal Peart a run for his money. Petrucci's solo is this crazy-beautiful floydian inspired piece that will have you feeling pretty satisfied if you really dug The Count Of Tuscony. :) Rudess. He is the wizard. Nuff said. You'll love it. No Myung solo. DT still do a great job of keeping a quality bass player in the god dame basement. :( It turned out very well I thought too. LaBrie did sound quite good, sure a little breathy, but that's not exactly a new thing for him. Mangini is unearthly on the drums, man was he fun to watch. Myung was a little beneath it all sure, but it was still much better than the studio album. Rudess is a wizard too, as you say. I was glad to see more standard piano from him. I was not much of a fan of the song Outcry until I watched the one in this DVD. The breakdown at the end was amazing, as well as all the other solos and improvs. This one might be my favorite DT live album. The only disappointment was that the tracks they played were nearly the same as what they played back when I saw them in 2011. But with Mangini only having just joined, I guess its understandable that he didn't have their whole discography down yet. Still, great execution, and the live versions do sound better than the studio versions of the songs. Glad you enjoyed it. Ummmmm favourite live DVD though??? Have you seen THE SCORE: 20th Ann at RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL IN NEW YORK IN 2006?? For me, that is the best and no other DT live performance holds a candle to that show. :) Everyone gets on LaBRie just line ZUMCRAIG did above, but on that show in 2006 he absolutely nails it! Gotta see it if you haven't already. It's available on cd too. :) Anyway. Luna is great. What's your favourite song on it? I actually like the little tune ups they did on metropolis other than the solos of course. :) I'm sure if I watched Score again, my thoughts might change. LaBrie was definitely at his best on that one, but I really just think I'm liking Dream Theater better with Mangini instead of Portnoy. We'll see if this preference holds up in the long term, but those are my current thoughts after watching this DVD. I like where Rudess seems to be going with his keyboarding style lately. There were some very fine moments in each DVD, although yes, only one had a live orchestra while the other one merely had a string quartet.

You see, for me, watching and hearing it 5.1 makes all the difference in the world. Forget that PCM stereo crap.
Yeah. If you gotta buddy who has a decent sound system run the DVD over to his /her place and watch it again. LaBrie is on his game man. Never heard him sound better. :)

progbethyname wrote: Another quick question. Has a anyone, other than myself, properly listened to 5.1 audio mix of the new DT record with a decent sound system?? If so. What did you think? Also. Do you think Richard C's Audio mix was good? Love to hear people's thoughts hear. I also wouldn't mind feedback on the Paul Northfield audio mix for Systematic Chaos if anyone has that? I thought it was well done. Not overly bright. :)

While I have the 5.1 versions for Systematic Chaos, as well as their last two albums, I do not have the proper equipment to enjoy it.

progbethyname wrote: Another quick question. Has a anyone, other than myself, properly listened to 5.1 audio mix of the new DT record with a decent sound system?? If so. What did you think? Also. Do you think Richard C's Audio mix was good? Love to hear people's thoughts hear. I also wouldn't mind feedback on the Paul Northfield audio mix for Systematic Chaos if anyone has that? I thought it was well done. Not overly bright. :)

The 5.1 Mix of their new album is incredible, vastly superior to the CD version. I hate to even listen to the CD version after listening to that 5.1 Mix. For example much of the cymbal work from Mangini is buried in the CD mix, but in the 5.1 he comes out. All the instrumentalists do period, but it is much better.


Edited by AlexDOM - December 15 2013 at 22:36

Another quick question. Has a anyone, other than myself, properly listened to 5.1 audio mix of the new DT record with a decent sound system?? If so. What did you think? Also. Do you think Richard C's Audio mix was good?
Love to hear people's thoughts hear. I also wouldn't mind feedback on the Paul Northfield audio mix for Systematic Chaos if anyone has that? I thought it was well done. Not overly bright. :)

progbethyname wrote: Metalmarsh89 wrote: I'll be getting Live at Luna Park here in the mail in the next week. Has anyone else watched or listened to this live album? What do you think?I'll wait until I watch it before I come back to this thread. Hey Marsh. For the most part it's a lovely DVD recording, although during the softer acoustic sessions their is some syllabus issues with LaBrie's mic. He sounds a little bit too breathy on tracks The Silent Man, The spirit Carries on (just the beginning) and Beneath the surface. Other than that. Amazing performance by all, but like AlexDom said Rudess and Myung are a bit buried in the mix, but with a quality home Theater speaker system with a Harmon Kardon Receiver you can clean it up a bit. I tinker. :) Above all. I'd give it a 4/5. I bought the blue ray 60 page picture booklet edition with the 3 CDs as well and I love it. Also. My favourite performances were the solos!!! Mangini's drum solo was out cold! Could give Neal Peart a run for his money. Petrucci's solo is this crazy-beautiful floydian inspired piece that will have you feeling pretty satisfied if you really dug The Count Of Tuscony. :) Rudess. He is the wizard. Nuff said. You'll love it. No Myung solo. DT still do a great job of keeping a quality bass player in the god dame basement. :(

It turned out very well I thought too. LaBrie did sound quite good, sure a little breathy, but that's not exactly a new thing for him. Mangini is unearthly on the drums, man was he fun to watch. Myung was a little beneath it all sure, but it was still much better than the studio album. Rudess is a wizard too, as you say. I was glad to see more standard piano from him. I was not much of a fan of the song Outcry until I watched the one in this DVD. The breakdown at the end was amazing, as well as all the other solos and improvs. This one might be my favorite DT live album. The only disappointment was that the tracks they played were nearly the same as what they played back when I saw them in 2011. But with Mangini only having just joined, I guess its understandable that he didn't have their whole discography down yet. Still, great execution, and the live versions do sound better than the studio versions of the songs.

Metalmarsh89 wrote: I'll be getting Live at Luna Park here in the mail in the next week. Has anyone else watched or listened to this live album? What do you think?I'll wait until I watch it before I come back to this thread.

Hey Marsh. For the most part it's a lovely DVD recording, although during the softer acoustic sessions their is some syllabus issues with LaBrie's mic. He sounds a little bit too breathy on tracks The Silent Man, The spirit Carries on (just the beginning) and Beneath the surface. Other than that. Amazing performance by all, but like AlexDom said Rudess and Myung are a bit buried in the mix, but with a quality home Theater speaker system with a Harmon Kardon Receiver you can clean it up a bit. I tinker. :)

Above all. I'd give it a 4/5. I bought the blue ray 60 page picture booklet edition with the 3 CDs as well and I love it.
Also. My favourite performances were the solos!!! Mangini's drum solo was out cold! Could give Neal Peart a run for his money. Petrucci's solo is this crazy-beautiful floydian inspired piece that will have you feeling pretty satisfied if you really dug The Count Of Tuscony. :) Rudess. He is the wizard. Nuff said. You'll love it.
No Myung solo. DT still do a great job of keeping a quality bass player in the god dame basement. :(

I'll be getting Live at Luna Park here in the mail in the next week. Has anyone else watched or listened to this live album? What do you think?

I'll wait until I watch it before I come back to this thread.

 i`m not to sure if the last two album to me seem to. be okish. which i belive is beacuse mike. isn`t there playin`.

At last I got it... unfortunatley I have to listen to it more to give an opinion. I might end up likind it well enough... at least more than "A Dramatic Turn of Events"... Though I don't know if more than "Black Clouds".

I've been listening to it daily and it's definitely a Top 5 for me along with I & W, Met 2, 6DOIT, and Awake. This is coming from a 20 year plus fan. I'm extremely impressed with what I have heard and I love the direction they have been taking with the last two releases. I feel more passion and songwriting coming from the band, even more so than on ADTOE, passion that had been almost lost on SC & BC&SL.