Archive of live music performances local to Northwest Iowa.
Sorry for the shaky stuff and jumping around; didn’t realize it was going to be a fourteen minute video, and it’s missing a couple of intro minutes at that…….anyway, that’s a long time to try to hold something still without a tripod…..
“Dupree’s Diamond Blues” first appeared on the 1969 Grateful Dead album, Aoxomoxoa.
This is a preview of a pending post of the full show at Internet Archive. Our library of those posts can be found here:
Jared Watson, Guitar
Walter Watson, Drums & Vocals
Rocky II, Bass
Rocky Athas, Guitar
Record producer Terry Melcher didn’t believe in stereo, passing it off as a fad. The people listening to pop music were driving cars, and cars only had one speaker.
So, there are subtle differences between his stereo and mono mixes because he left the stereo to an assistant, at least in the case of Paul Revere And The Raiders.
But this is about crowd noise. We’ve been wondering if crowd noise can be suppressed in audience recordings, since our recorder employs at least three microphones while we’re using it and apparently much of the crowd noise is out of phase. That means if we mix the recording down to mono, some of that will get zapped (I can’t remember the correct technical term). Doesn’t it?
While yours truly is convinced, we had a great opportunity tonight to test it. At the beginning of the third set by Nick Dittmeier And The Sawdusters, the band opened with a song named “O’Bannon Woods”, and the crowd was slow to quiet down. At the same time, the house PA was playing music that they play during intermissions, and nobody turned it down. One of those speakers is close to our mic, so we were temporarily recording from two different sources from two different directions at two different volumes.
Here are two versions of an identical track: one stereo as it was recorded, one mixed to mono:
I still do my best listening in my car. It has more than one speaker, but I think I’m gonna like the mono better.
Recording data for nerds:
Zoom H2n, set to auto-gain: concert, side mics set to +3, maybe 8′ up in the air maybe 8′ away, from Bose L1.
Pierre Lacocque, harmonica,
Mike Perez, bass,
Ricky Nelson, drums,
Tom Holland, guitar, vocals,
Daneshia Hamilton, vocals
Pierre Lacocque, harmonica,
Mike Perez, bass,
Ricky Nelson, drums,
Tom Holland, guitar, vocals,
Daneshia Hamilton, vocals
“I’m glad we have a friend of ours that’s tape recording this tonight because I want to listen to that one. That one came out of nowhere.” Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz, keyboards
Aaron Lieberman, guitar, vocals
Liviu Pop, drums
Our Facebook page where we post lots of stuff like this, although this particular edit is exclusive to this site.
Byron’s Facebook page where you find out about stuff like this.
Bruce Katz Band official site.
Dirk Quinn Band:
Dirk Quinn, guitar
Rory Flynn, bass
Cody Munzert, keys
Josh Gilgoff, drums, percussion
Oh, those tricky jazz guys: Stevie Wonder into Star Wars is very clever if you think about it.
This is a preview of the full show, which will be posted here: