The Decemberists
2008-11-12
Wharton Center
East Lansing, MI

Shanty For The Arethusa
July, July
Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
Valerie Plame
The Bachelor and The Bride
Leslie Anne Levine
Record Year
Perfect Crime #2
The Island: Come And See / The Landlord's Daughter / You Will Not Feel The Drowning
O Valencia!
16 Military Wives
Angel, Won't You Call Me?
Hazards of Love

Running time: 1:19:39

FOH Live Mix: Rich Hipp

Recorded by: Jacob Myers for Prison City Archive

Recording: NT4 > Songcatcher PMD660 > Lexar Platinum II CF

Lineage: CF > L3 @ -5.4,-0.2 > Audacity 1.3.5 > FLAC (8)

Checksums:

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Notes:

Microphone position was about 5" to the right of DFC on the mixing platform. Rich was expecting me (I'd emailed their management a few weeks before the show) and was very accommodating; placing my stand near his own stereo ribbon. He was recording the event, feeding each channel, the board mix, and the ribbon into a small ProTools rig. There's a railing directly behind the seat backs of row X for your clamping pleasure (but I didn't know about it ahead of time and was packing light). Anyway; now you know. In spite of the fact that the microphone position was behind the balcony lip, the well-mixed performance and the well-treated room present a very listenable recording. Enjoy!

P.S. - The CD sector boundary errors are both intentional and serendipitous; The Decemberists don't want their music shared "lossy" and I don't want my recording burned to a CD (which can easily be "ripped" to MP3). There you have it.