Def Leppard / Sheffield 1992 / 1DVDR

Def Leppard / Sheffield 1992 / 1DVDR / non label

Live at Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, UK 24th June 1992 (Synched with SBD)

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This work is a masterpiece video of audience shots covered with sound board sound in the “ADRENALIZE” era!
The live included in this work is “June 24, 1992”. Live in their hometown of Sheffield. At that time, “7-DAY WEEKEND TOUR 1992-1993” started on May 19th after the warm-up in April, and this day is the 17th performance. You can fully enjoy the performance that the band has just warmed up and the combination has become perfect.
The taste of this work is, after all, high quality specifications that combine audience video with sound board audio. When I play it, I’m worried about the shaking screen of the handy camera at that time, but it also becomes stable and easy to see from around the second song “Tear It Down”. Zoom is also used a lot, and you can see the members entwined here and there as you run around the 360-degree stage with the artwork of “ADRENALIZE”. The climax scene where the lighting system and drum riser that appear in “Rocket” rise is perfect. Above all, there is no distortion or noise, and the master freshness with vivid colors is wonderful!
The sound of the sound board is more than the visual beauty. Of course, the sound board is also a pinch, but the sound of this work is the pin. It’s a perfect mix that can be released officially, and even the audio alone makes it a superb live album. And the strange thing is the sense of presence. The musical tone is definitely a direct sound board, but there are cheers and applause up close, and in a relatively quiet scene such as an MC or a guitar solo, you can feel the scale of a large venue. Is it mixed with the audience microphone or matrixed with the audience recording instead of completely replacing it with the sound board sound? I don’t know the details, but it is a super-superb musical sound, but it is directly connected to the table. It has nothing to do with the whiteness that tends to occur in Japan. It may be better to call this work a “live album with a scene of the scene” rather than a “soundboard audio audience shot”.
The DEF LEPPARD show projected with that quality is wonderful. Except for the acoustic “Bringin’On The Heartbreak” and the instrumental “SMC” in the first half, the Greatest Hits are 4 or 5 songs each from 3 golden pieces of “PYROMANIA”, “HYSTERIA” and “ADRENALIZE”. These three pieces are still the core of the set list, but it is a show that will showcase such masterpieces with the potential at the time of creation. It is Joe Elliott’s MC that the mood at that time appears especially. Before his guitar solo time, he weptly said he had lost Steve Clark and shouted, “Introducing a new friend, Vivian Campbell!”

A masterpiece video that spells out the live performance where the golden set list has just been completed, from the perspective of the audience with the finest sound board. It is a piece full of nuances unique to the golden age.