In response to questions about "lip-syncing" during concerts in Shanghai and other concerts, Mayday's management company Believe Music responded on December 4 that Mayday did not engage in any lip-synching behavior during the tour, and the company is actively cooperating with law enforcement agencies to investigate.
The controversy stemmed from a video posted by the blogger "Wheatfield Farmer", saying that based on 12 concert song videos taken by netizens, it was determined through software identification that 5 of them were lip-syncing. Since then, the blogger has updated two more videos, suggesting that some songs are mixed or lip-synced.
An unnamed senior sound engineer said that generally there will be "pad sounds" in concerts. "Can this kind of 'pad sound' be said to be lip-syncing? No. If it is analyzed that there is a 'pad sound' in it, then just classify it as completely lip-syncing, which is a bit suspected of creating topic hype."
What are "half-open mic" and "pad tone"? Is this considered lip-synching?
In fact, the phenomena of "pad sound" and "half-open mic" at concerts are not new in recent years.
In some concerts in the 1990s, especially for combination or singing and dancing singers, the phenomenon of "pad sound" was common. “Because during the creation and recording process of a song, in order to have a rich harmonic effect, in addition to the lead singer, backup singers will also be invited to record multiple audio tracks with different combinations of parts.
Due to various limitations such as cost and personnel, during live performances, different tracks will be used as background music according to a certain proportion of volume, which is what we call ‘pad sound’. In particular, singers who sing and dance require physical exertion during the singing process. Due to considerations such as body movement and breathing, in order to ensure the performance effect, a certain amount of "pad sound" is needed. "