Video Recordings

2500

Van Halen
April 27, 2012
Bridgestone Arena
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
A Different Kind Of Truth
Tradeable
1 Dual Layer DVD
Silver Stallion multi-cam
Audience
HD Audience Master
Video: TheMegrims, JDUPONT8, Steecoe; Audio: Earlhead
Canon SX40 Powershot (TheMegrims, distant shot), Sony DSC-HX9V (JDUPONT8 - side shot), Canon Vixia HF R300 (Steecoe - front row); Audio: CA-11 cardiod mics (Earlhead)
Master
NTSC
16:9
117 min
B+
B+
A-



Unchained
Runnin’ With The Devil
She’s The Woman
Romeo Delight
Tattoo
Everybody Wants Some
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
China Town
Hear About It Later
(Oh) Pretty Woman
Alex drum solo
You Really Got Me
The Trouble With Never
Dance The Night Away
I’ll Wait
Hot For Teacher
Women In Love
Girl Gone Bad
Beautiful Girls
Ice Cream Man
Panama
Eddie guitar solo
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
Jump
Silver Stallion
Silver Stallion
Yes
Yes
3
1


First 40 seconds of audio is from one of the videocams.  After that, it's all Earlehead's audio.  There are some phasing/ fluctuation issues in the first few minutes of Earlehead's audio, but after that, it sounds great.  This audio has some really nice, heavy-hitting bottom end but zero distortion or muddiness.  This really gives the audio, especially during the distant shots, a full bodied feel that fits perfectly.  This is different from most other 2012 Van Halen DVDs in that it has a distant angle that is tripod steady, always in focus, and shot at the correct exposure level.  The side angle is also well filmed and has perfect exposure.  One really nice aspect of the side shot is that because of the angle, even when zoomed in, it often includes more than one band member. And the third angle (Steecoe) is nicely filmed front row shot.


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