Fat Cats

Fat Cats
September 21, 2001
Jambands.ca Fall Festival
Lancaster Tavern, Kitchener, Ontario

Recorded/Mixed by Eric Warren (tungstengruvsten@hotmail.com)

Recording information:
	Microphones:  Oktava MC012's* -> Marantz PMD650 (safety copy) ->AES/EBU out -> 			Dr. D format convertor -> SP/DIF in Delta 1010(16bit/44.1kHz)

	Soundboard:  stereo patch -> Delta 1010 (24 bit/96kHz)

*-10dB pad, cardioid capsules--hung XY from ceiling, 15' from stage

The two stereo pairs were recorded in Vegas 2.0

See mixing info below.

1.Soldier's Home
2.Frontier
3.It takes alot to laugh, it takes a train to cry.
4.Spring
5.Fatman in the Bathtub
6.Climb//   (DAW crash:song faded out, also missing "High Time")
7.Dark Hollow
8.Teaspoon
9.Friend of the Devil
10.Stand Back
11.Waiting in Vain
12.Me and Rennie
13.Baby Blue
14.Bronyaur Stomp
15.Bertha


Notes:
All work was done from the hard drive copies, the MD Safety copies weren't needed.

All monitoring was done with Event 20/20bas Active monitors as well as AKG K240 headphones. Signal path was Delta 10/10 -> Mackie 1604VLZ -> Event 20/20bas.

The Soundboard was resampled to 16-bit/44.1k in Soundforge (Highest Quality) prior to mixing

With the 4 tracks being available to me, I chose to mix AND master the recordings for a few different reasons:
a. To correct any imperfections that would degrade the listening experience
2. To compensate for the lack of compression on the soundboard tracks
c. To elevate these performances from standard bootleg quality 
7. Cause I can and will!
d. all of the above

This was the one and only time the DAW crashed- lost a song and a half in the process of rebooting and reconfiguring it to use another hard drive(stupid lightning).  This is the first matrix mix, and this had to be treated differently than a straight stereo signal.  Since the microphones were 15' back from the PA, there is an inherent delay between the two signals.  The microphones had to be moved ahead 1.3 mS (t=d/v where t=time in seconds, d=distance of mics and v=velocity of sound:1130 ft/sec) in relation to the soundboard  BEFORE they were mixed together to compensate for this delay.  I did the change by lining up a couple of percussion peaks and then checking in each song to make sure it visibly lined up.  The actual delay was 1.26 mS when done this way.

Digital Editing:
We didn't run compressors on anything when we did sound so a couple things really peaked the levels, the odd clap, feedback or percussion seems like it. These were manually notched in Vegas with Volume automation. 2 sec fade in/out were added at the start, set break and end.

The Soundboard had a Low Shelf EQ (1.7dB@190Hz) applied, while the Mic's had no EQ changes, just a subtle left/right adjustment to make both mic's equal volume.

The microphones and soundboard were mixed together at a ratio of 1:3, then the resulting mix was normalized to 0.5 dB.  This was then run through the Timeworks Mastering Compressor.  Due to the acoustic nature of these guys, the threshold was reduced to -4dB to allow greater dynamics in the material.duced to -4dB to allow greater dynamics in the material.

SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State	Archive Identifier
69980	2001-09-21	Lancaster Tavern	Kitchener	ON
Matrix;Microphones: Oktava MC012's* -> Marantz PMD650 (safety copy) ->AES/EBU out -> Dr. D format convertor -> SP/DIF in Delta 1010(16bit/44.1kHz); Soundboard: stereo patch -> Delta 1010 (24 bit/96kHz); *-10dB pad, cardioid capsules--hung XY from ceiling, 15' from stageThe two stereo pairs were recorded in Vegas 2.0

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