Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
February 21, 2008
The Allen Room
New York, NY
(remastered from the original recording)

Grace Potter - vocals, Hammond B-3, Rhodes piano, guitars, Steinway piano, percussion
Scott Tournet - guitars, harmonica, vocals, percussion
Bryan Dondero - bass, percussion
Matthew Burr - drums, percussion

Disc 1
01 Ain't No Time >
02 Treat Me Right >
03 Mastermind
04 Stop The Bus
05 Here's To The Meantime
06 band intros
07 Can't See Through
08 Ragged Company
09 Ah Mary
10 Sugar
11 Lose Some Time*
12 Apologies**
13 Over Again

Disc 2
01 Nothing But The Water I >
02 Nothing But The Water II >
03 Drums >
04 Nothing But The Water II (reprise) >
05 Nothing But The Water I (reprise)
06 Angel Band > Big White Gate > Angel Band

* Grace and Scott
** just Grace on a big ol' Steinway

AT943c (DFC 20' from stage) > Marantz PMD620 (mic in) @24/44.1 > PNY 4Gb SDHC card

Mastered using Adobe Audition, Algorithmix Red PEQ, K-Stereo Processor and LP SplitComp, iZotope Ozone, Voxengo LF Max Punch, RME Fireface 400 D/A and Adam A5 + Sub8 active monitors

Taper's Notes:

This is a remastered version of my recording, the original version can be found at this link: 

http://www.archive.org/details/gpn2008-02-21.aud.flac16 

This concert was easily my favorite of the five GPN shows I've attended to date, and the gorgeous Lincoln Center venue and exceptionally quiet audience inspired a superbly nuanced performance by Grace and the boys.  I thought the evening was special enough to warrant spending some time using the pro quality mastering software I've acquired since taping it almost three years ago to make it sound a little closer to the way I remember it sounding from my seat in the middle of the 2nd row.  There's obviously no way to overcome the limitations of the gear used to record the show, but I was able to compensate to some degree for the pronounced low and high frequency rolloff of the miniature AT-943 mics by equalizing the mid and side channels and applying Voxengo's bass enhancer, as well as restoring some of the presence of the performance space by means of judicious multi-band compression.  The result is a little more "oomph" in the bass and kick drum, a bit more air in the cymbals and guitar, and a more immediate soundstage throughout.  While I think the result sounds significantly better than the undoctored version, I've also left my original minimally processed recording available for the purists.  

Enjoy!