Release The Bats Space 2, The Custard Factory, Birmingham, West Midlands UK 1st November 2008 Line up (in order of appearance): Lightning Bolt Pissed Jeans Wooden Shjips Om Shellac Lineage: Sony ECM-719 Microphone -> Sony MZ-NH1 Hi-MD (in Hi-SP Mode) -> SonicStage -> WAV -> Audacity (Fades + Amplify 1dB [Shellac only]) -> Wave Repair (Track splitting) -> Trader's Little Helper (FLAC conversion etc) -> You! Details: Lightning Bolt If you're not familiar with Lightning Bolt they make a bold stance to not play on stage and prefer to be in with the crowd. Whilst this is fantastic for the audience it is of course a pain for anyone taping. This was recorded to the left hand side of drummer Brian, close to his amp so is a little drum heavy but none the worse for it. I did start of by being pretty close but during the course of things got gradually pushed back so further on down the recording sounds a little more distant. Despite this it has come out pretty well (to my knackered ears anyway....). Pissed Jeans Recorded stage right in line with speaker stack approx 20' away. This has come out pretty good with not much annoying chatter, apart from my friend Dave at the very start..... Wooden Shjips Same as above so pretty decent sound all round. Om Recorded stage left approx 25' from stage. Struggled to get a good position for this one as the audience had built up considerably so could not manage to get any closer. All told this has come out pretty well if sounding slightly distant and festival like. Due to being a little packed in at this point there is unfortunately more audience chatter noticable on this one but nothing too bad apart from the occasional burst from a few selfish twats nearby. Shellac As above but slightly further back, still very listenable though. This recording has been amplified by 1dB in audacity as the levels came out a little 'safe' due to my location. Probably the most fun set of the evening with Bob Weston as Frankenstein's monster and Todd Trainer as Dracula. Steve Albini had ditched his Mummy costume worn the night before, i suspect because of the heat (check it out on YouTube!). Bob was most entertaining staying in character throughout the show, check out the backing grunts! The set ended with Todd's drum kit being dismantled as he played, culminating in a solitary snare drum. This is probably one of the most 'interesting' Shellac recordings floating around, I'm glad that they entered so much into the spirit of things. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I haven't played with the sound on these recordings but if anyone with the inclination and better software than myself wants to please feel free, as long as you can up the results on dime. If anyone can assist with setlists it would be very much appreciated. Finally a very big thank you to the Capsule ladies for making all this happen. If you're not familiar, they are responsible for staging some of the best shows in Birmingham and without their efforts the city would be a cultural wasteland. Hope you don't mind me sharing these recordings. Enjoy App\Http\Controllers\Api\FileDownloadController::download(): Return value must be of type string, none returned