Anders Osborne

Anders Osborne
Sullivan Hall
New York, NY
1/23/2010
"Freaks Ball X" - a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the NYC Freaks list

Neumann TLM-170 (mounted on front left column ~10 feet from stage, left mic:  subcard; right mic:  hypercard) -&gt; Sound Devices 722; FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0a (volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24-&gt;16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings; Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1
1.  guitar tuning -&gt; Boxes Bills And Pain
[a song or 2 are missing here]
2.  Burning On The Inside (end)
3.  I Got Your Heart
4.  tuning/banter/trying to fix sousaphone amp
5.  Standing With Angels
6.  Darkness At The Bottom *

Set 2
1.  Had My Reasons -&gt;
2.  We're Killing Each Other
3.  Stoned Drunk And Naked
4.  Louisiana Rain
5.  band intros
6.  Oh Mama
7.  Pleasin' You
8.  thanks
(no encore)

Notes:
S1T1 Soundboard.  There is some other music (how is that even possible!?) bleeding through slightly in the left channel during this track.  Can't explain what's going on here.
1st 34 seconds of S1T2 are mono, pasted from the right channel while I was still setting up the left mic....
* = intro only, abandoned for equipment failure


Jen &amp; I rushed down to this show there after the moe. show earlier at Roseland -- we BLEW out of Roseland super quickly after the show ended to try and catch the beginning of this set.  And what a hell of a time we had getting down there -- of course it was raining and there was a CRUSH of people trying to get cabs outside of Roseland.  After 5+ minutes of trying, the 1st and only free cab we saw someone stole out from under us -- we flagged it down, but some other jerk ran inside before we had a chance.  It would have wound up in a phyiscal conflict if Jen had her way.  ;-)

Anyway we wound up opting for the subway -- it isn't a bad subway ride from Roseland to Sullivan (51st to W4), but somehow there was a fire in the station we went into and the train we were in went out of service.  So we had to wait (and this was not rush hour so trains were not frequent) for the next one....needless to say it took us a while to get down there and of course Anders was already onstage playing.  I excused my way through a packed Sullivan and set up my stand as quickly as possible (which wasn't very quick as it was packed near the pole I was trying to tape my stand to and I noticed a loose screw on one of my mics that would have made it dangerous to put up w/o fixing it).  Luckily Pete Costello had his recorder plugged into the soundboard and running (or so we thought).  And to add insult to injury, I didn't realize I was low on gaffer tape, so I taped my stand up, but knew there was no way it would hold for the entire night in the hot sweaty room.  Sure enough, deep into the 2nd set we noticed my stand starting to slip (thanks to Mike Matlick!) but luckily by that point it had emptied out enough for me to just put the stand on the floor right in front of the column it had been taped to earlier.

Anyway, it turns out that Peter only got part of the first song, and what is there is sort of dicey (how exactly is there other music bleeding into the left channel?) and peaked out (I lowered the volume, but it's super compressed).  Oh well, a tragedy of errors on this night.  But you know you'll enjoy what we did manage to get!!!


Recorded, Mastered, and tracked by Scott Bernstein, except  Set 1, Track 1 which was recorded by Peter Costello

Band:
Eric Bolivar - drums
Kirk Joseph - sousaphone


Anders Osborne
Sullivan Hall
New York, NY
12/31/2010
Late (2AM) Show

Neumann TLM-170 (FOB 10 feet from stage, latched to left column; left mic: subcardoid; right mic: hypercardoid) > Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0c (volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24>16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings;) Tracked in CDWav.

1.  intro / tuning
2.  Love Is Taking Its Toll >
3.  Echoes Of My Sins
4.  Burning On The Inside
5.  Coming Down
6.  Ohio
7.  Call On Me
8.  The Road To Charlie Parker
9.  Boxes Bills And Pain
10. Got Your Heart
11. Stoned Drunk And Naked
12. thanks/encore break
13. Ya Ya

Lineup:
Anders Osborne - guitar and vocals
Carl Dufrene - bass and vocals
Brady Blade - drums

Note this show was billed as a post-Phish at MSG show and started well after midnight.  So technically it started in the very early morning hours of 1/1/11.  The time stamp on the file for the Anders show 4:32AM!  That was a LONG night, starting with dinner at 5:30, Phish at 8, and then this show ending 11 hours later....

Every time I post something I've run in this configuration (with different mic patterns for each mic) at Sullivan Hall, someone invariably comments "What is up with the different mic patterns?"  Well, in this room it's impossible to set up in the center of the room unless you set up in the very back, next to the soundboard (or hang your mics from the ceiling).  So I generally opt for getting really really close, and taping my stand to a column about 10 feet from the stage.  The column is unfortunately just inside of the left PA speaker, far off center.  So what I do is point the left mic straight at the stage in subcard setting (appropriate when you're 10 feet from the source) to get mostly what's coming out of the PA and some stage bleed through and then point the right mic wide to the right (in hypercard to give me a bit more reach) and the ratio of stage volume to PA volume flips -- in the right mic I get slightly more stage volume and slightly less PA.  In most cases it works out pretty well, and it definitely did on this recording.  The upshot is that you get a bit more guitar and cymbals and a bit less vocals in the right channel.  Ultimately I think this is the best I can do given the situation and I think it sounds pretty stellar regardless (if it wasn't NYE and I wasn't coming from a Phish show before I'd probably have run a SBD+onstage mic matrix).  I have experimented with different configurations, but I think this tends to yield the most pleasing results.  It is a difficult work securing my stand on the column, though.

Hope you all enjoy, and happy new year!

NOTE:  As far as I know, the early show was not recorded.


SHNID	Artist	Date	Venue	City	State
133507	Anders Osborne	2010-01-23	Sullivan Hall	New York	NY
Neumann TLM-170 (mounted on front left column ~10 feet from stage, left mic: subcard; right mic: hypercard) -> Sound Devices 722; FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0a (volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings; Tracked in CDWav.
129507	Anders Osborne	2010-12-31	Sullivan Hall	New York	NY
Anders Osborne, Sullivan Hall, New York, NY 12/31/2010 (2AM show only) - Neumann TLM-170 (FOB 10 feet from stage, latched to left column; left mic: subcardoid; right mic: hypercardoid) > Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0c (volume normalization; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24>16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings;) Tracked in CDWav.

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