The Big Wu
1-21-2004
The Barrymore Theatre
Madison, WI


Source:  Studio Projects c-4 (cards) ortf, just left of dfc @ 8' high & 45 ft from stage + 2chan
         sbd > Mackie ONYX 1220 > oade mod ua-5 > jb3 @ 48/16  ***see technical notes for tapers***

Transfer:  jb3 > pc (via firewire) > wavelab > cdwave > flac

Taped by:  Matthew McCulloch    mmmatt@tapers.org
Transferred by:  Matthew McCulloch


Disc 1, Set 1

01)   Intro.
02)  Jazz 88 >
03)  Flatiron Suite >
04)  Dogs Dead
05)  Minnesota Moon
06)  Shake Your Dice >
07)  jam > 
08)  Shake Your Dice
09)  Boxing Day >
10)  Bloodhound
11)  Jam >  
12)  Lowdown* >
13)  House Of Wu* >
14)  Dooley* >
15)  jam* >
16)  House Of Wu *

Disc 2, Set 2

01)  intra
02)  Big River >
03)  jam >
04)  Black Rain >
05)  jam >
06)  Lula jam >
07)  Dancin' With Lula >
08)  S.O.S. >
09)  jam >
10)  Dear Mr. Fantasy >
11)  jam >
12)  S.O.S. >
13)  Country Pie
14)  Tequila
15)  Blue Vapor
16)  Won't Get Fooled Again


Disc 3, Encore

01)  jam >
02)  Red Sky >
03)  Ghost Birds >
04)  (Let It Snow) jam
05)  Texas Fireball

*  Colin from Stone Creek (I think) on Banjo

***Thank you to The Big Wu, Dan, Coby, and Pastor Tim for allowing this recording to happen. Please support these and other taper friendly artists by buying their retail cd's and attending their concerts. For best sound quality, please use the original flac files, and decode to wav prior to burning*** 
***Technical notes for tapers***  The mic location on this recording was ~45 ft from the PA.  This is usually only done in a matrix recording if the sbd feed is delayed to match the sound from the PA.  I was unable to use the FOH snakes to get to the stage, and I decided to wing it with what I had.  The mix on this recording was about 90% sbd and 10% mics to avoid a delay issue and echo effect.  In addition I used the 250hz 18 db/oct roll off on the mics, as the bass level notes would have been extremely sloppy even with the slightest bit of delay.  During recording I raised the bass eq on the mixer ~4 db @ 80 hz to compensate and then re-eq'd the bass again in post to compensate for the lower range which is typically prevalent in the mics. If I had done a more typical "even" blend of sbd to mic there would have been a terrible echo sound.  This sound can be heard at the end of disc 1 when the house was playing a Dillon cd.  You can hear the echo effect when I raised the levels on the mics.