iPhone-Band-on-Subway Video: Is it Real?
I just read an interesting item in Macworld about a band called Atomic Tom, who had their instruments stolen and resorted to performing using iPhones as their sole gear. The band posted a video of themselves playing a song on a NYC subway train. It’s a pretty cool video, but I’m not sold on it’s complete authenticity. The mix sounds too good, the vocal mix is too good (especially since the only the lead singer is singing directly into his phone). The only way I could see this working is if the outputs of all the iPhones were run into a multitrack and mixed and sweetened later. It’s a cool idea, and the apps they’re using certainly seem authentic (although the guitar player is awfully good on the guitar sim app he’s using, it looks a little like Frontier Design iShred, but I don’t think you could strum that app and fret chords the way he’s doing).
The band claims �All footage is performed 100% live and executed in one take.� If so, these guys are pretty darn slick technically. I invite someone from the band to comment and tell us about how they did it.
Check out the video below. What do you think? Is this performance 100% live as the band asserts?
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