The M&Ms
Stage 48
New York, NY
5/15/2014

Neumann TLM-170 (cardoids, FOB center about 20' from stage) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge 11 (iZotope Mastering Exciter; iZotope Mastering EQ; 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; clap/whistle scrubbing); Tracked in CDWav. IDv3 tagged in Tag&Rename 3.8 RC1

1.  intro
2.  Smoking At Tipitina's
3.  Honeybee
4.  Yes We Can Can
5.  The Harder They Come
6.  Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)
7.  banter - introducing the ladies 
8.  Brand New Day
9.  Eminence Front
10. Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
11. Melts In Your Mind
12. What You Need *
13. African Gumbo
14. I'm A Ram ->
15. How Many More Times
16. banter - band intros
17. encore break
18. Parachute
19. Firewater
20. thanks

TT: (1:54:11)

Papa (Malcom Welbourne) Mali - guitar, vocals
John Medeski - organ / keyboards
Stanton Moore - drums
Robert Mercurio - bass
The Feminems:
Margie Perez - vocals
Monica Macintyre - vocals

* = w/Lucas Ellman on saxophone

I scrubbed loud local claps/feedback/whistles from T3(1 clap), T4(1 burst of feedback), T6(23 claps), T8(5 claps, 1 burst of feedback), T9(5 claps), T10(1 yell), T11(8 claps), T12(5 claps), T13(14 claps), T14(7 claps, 2 whistles), T18(1 clap), T19(7 claps, 1 yell), T20(1 clap)

The mix in the venue was really off and flat sounding on the recording, so I used some of the SoundForge iZotope mastering tools to crispen it up a bit.  I don't usually do this to my recordings, but this one really needed it

Alan Evans' band "Playonbrother" opened

Recorded, mastered, tracked, tagged, and posted by Scott Bernstein (5/18-5/23/2014)