Donna The Buffalo


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Rex Theater

1602 East Carson St.


All recording, mastering & transferring done by CopyKatz Engineering. Taping & recording great music since 1972.

This is my 5th posting of a recorded event online. Feel free to leave comments (positive or negative) so that as I dig

into my vault for future postings I can make them the best possible for yinz all.




Recording equipment:

          Soundboard ---> Pro Co DynaMike 224S cables ---> Tascam DR-680 with phantom power turned off (tracks 3 & 4
          were my digital feeds) mastering as 12bit/44100Hz .wav.


Recording accessories:

          Gator G-Broadcaster bag.


Recording location:

          right side of sbd. (the soundboard is located on far left side in the rear of the floor) ... about 80 ft.
          from stage


Transfer:

          SDHC card ---> Tascam DR-680 ---> Tascam's USB cord ---> HP G60-530US Notebook


Mastering:

          Audacity 2.0.0 (Unicode) for normalization & creation of tracks. Then to FLAC MP3 Converter to create
          .flac files from the .wav files at compression level 8. All checksums & torrent files created with
          Trader's Little Helper 2.7.0 (Build 172)

          *note: FLAC MP3 Converter is the name of the software. At no time has this recording been in the .mp3
          format!



          This performance is 1 set with 2 min. encore break.



          *note: This is the 1st show for my Tascam DR-680 deck & also for the omnidirectional capsules (used for
                 audience & matrix files).



Businesses used that made this recording possible:

          Sweetwater - cables

          Musician's Friend - deck & bag

          Best Buy - SDHC card

          Lowe's Home Improvement Center - extention cord

          Culture Shop - ticket




          Katz tails:



                First off, let me inform yinz all that dumb-ass me left my headphones at home ... So I wasn't

            able to listen & adjust the mix on the matrix, I had only visuals on the levels to go by. And with

            this being my first solo matrix recording I had no idea on even where to begin with the mix levels.

            Being the only person recording the show, I had no one to seek advice from. After listening to the

            show, while I was splitting it ito tracks, I've come to the conclusion that the audience should have

            been more prominate as the audience is barely audible between tunes. Thus the feel of the show that

            was desired by the matrix recording is lacking, in my own self-critical opinion.

                A really cool feature of the dr-680 is that it was creating 3 seperate stereo files at once. Frst

            file (tracks 1 & 2) was the audience recording, the second file (tracks 3 & 4) was this file, the

            digital feed & the third file (tracks 1, 2, 3 & 4) was the mix of the first 2 files.



                It was great to see quite a few friends that I haven't seen since back in the 90s. Alex, Todd,

            Lisa (even though she didn't remember me), Gumby, Jeff, Kevin, Jordan (who no longer jams with Donna,

            but still is part of the family, as he is their merchandise salesman) & Rikki (who I had touched base

            with at the "donnafans" page, but didn't know she was going to be in attendance) ... to name a few.



                                             So ... kick back ... n enjoy!!



  Disc 1 (song titles only) :

     01)  Funky Side

     02)  Living On Love And Gasoline

     03)  Tonight Tomorrow And Yesterday

     04)  Temporary Misery

     05)  Positive Friction

     06)  Why You Wanna Leave Me

     07)  Be The Change

     08)  I Love My Tribe

     09)  Blue Sky

     10)  Tomorrow Still Knows

     11)  ? (Out Of Sync) --->

     12)  ?

     13)  Conscious Evolution

     14)  Family Picture




  Disc 2 :

     01) Working On That

     02) One Day At A Time --->

     03) Way Back When

     04) Broken Record --->

     05) Each And Every Direction

     06) Ancient Arms

     07) Mystic Water

     08) No Place Like The Right Time

         Encores

     09) I Like To Do My Thing

     10) Times Like These

     11) The Oes You Love


          *someone please assist me in the missing song titles & correct me if have any of them wrong ... I gave
           them all my best shot.It's been 9 years or thereabouts since have been at a Donna show ... Alot of new
           tunes are being played since then.



               Many thanks to the sound engineer (for allowing me to receive the digital feed), the Rex
               hospitality staff (for allowing me to enter early (due to a lawnmower accident if my foot
               gets cold I'm in severe pain), the Rex security crew (for keeping a few drunks away from
               my rig) & to Donna The Buffalo (for putting on one hell of a great show)!


                                          Deadicated to "The Herd" all over!

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