SHOW
2
FEBRUARY
10,
2001: Grand Theater -
Kingston, ON
After my first year as archivist in 2000, I started to look for ways
to do more for the band. I knew of what the taping community called
"matrixing," where you take a soundboard source of a show and an
audience source of a show and time-align them using an audio editing
program like Pro Tools. By doing this, you get the solid sound of
the soundboard as well as the resonance of the hall from the
audience source. Most soundboard tapes sound too dry on their own;
blending solves this. As a matter of fact, another band I really
like, Widespread Panic, discovered this when they were getting ready
to release their double-live CD "Light Fuse, Get Away." The
soundboard tapes were too dry, so they put a call out to tapers for
audience recordings of the shows they had multi-tracked to get some
of the "live" feel in.
In
early 2001, I proposed the idea to Michael, and he decided it would
be an interesting experiment. The band was doing a short three show
tour in Canada in February, and we tested it there. Michael had the
soundboard taped to 2-track DAT, and I arranged for tapers to be
there for audience recording. Jean-Pierre Thibault taped the show on
the 10th for me.
After receiving both sources, I got a lesson in matrixing from a
sound engineer I know named Chris Mickle, who has done some
webcasting and live recording for bands like Sonia Dada. Using a
program called Saw Pro (Software Audio Workshop), I blended the two
sources together, using about 65 percent to 70 percent of the
soundboard source and the rest from the audience source. By
expanding the waveforms to the smallest time platform, I was able to
align them perfectly, a neat trick when neither source has
time-code. I had to time-align each track to compensate for "drift,"
caused by having the audience recording about 100 feet back from the
stage. The results came out quite well. Michael liked the tapes, but
ultimately it was decided not to pursue this on a regular basis.
This show was the first time the band played all three parts of
their "River Waltz" trilogy, though they didn't play them in order.
Several months later, at a show in Albany on June 28, 2001, the band
finally did play all three in order.
To
this day, the 2001 tour remains one of my favorites in terms of
overall song selection and quality of playing.
SETLIST
Dragging Hooks (River Song Trilogy:
part III), Come Calling (His Song), 'Cause Cheap is How I Feel,
Oregon Hill, Close My Eyes, 1000 Year Prayer, First Recollection,
Where Are You Tonight, Good Friday, River Waltz (River Song Trilogy:
part I), Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy: part II), Anniversary Song,
I'm So Open, Miles From Our Home, Hunted, E: Misguided Angel
SOURCE: Source:
Soundboard-Audience Blend, using SAW Studio.
Audience Source: AKG 481 microphones-Tascam DA-P1 DAT
DOWNLOADS:
DISK 1
Dragging Hooks (River Song Trilogy: part III)
Come Calling (His Song)
'Cause Cheap is How I Feel
Oregon Hill
Close My Eyes
1000 Year Prayer
First Recollection
Where Are You Tonight
Good Friday
DISK 2
River Waltz (River Song Trilogy: part I)
Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy: part II)
Anniversary Song
I'm So Open
Miles From Our Home
Hunted
E: Misguided Angel
FLAC FINGERPRINTS:
For the geeky among us:
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CD ART
This month, I've
exported the original files a .jpg images so everyone can use them.
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