Guster
Tarrytown Music Hall
Tarrytown, NY
4/19/2012

DPA 4021s (Orch H 101/102, XY on stand at ~4' for most of this sit down acoustic show, then ~6' for the last 2 songs) -> Sound Devices 722 (@ 24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0d (volume normalization; heavy clap removal; smoothing out some thuds when the stand was bumped; EQ to tamp down some loud yells; 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); Tracked in CDWav.


1.  Jeff Garland ramblings (fades in)
2.  Solitary Man ^
3.  intro
4.  Backyard
5.  Do You Love Me
6.  banter - first ever acoustic tour
7.  Rainy Day
8.  Diane
9.  banter - hot
10. Rise & Shine
11. banter - recycled water
12. Breaking It Down
13. banter - the strings
14. Long Way Down
15. banter - request segment coming
16  Hang On
17. banter - clams, Jeff Garland / Fa Fa request
18. Fa Fa
19. banter - Kodachrome request
20. Me & Julio
21. banter - Window request
22. Window +
23. banter - twitter / bucket
24. Come Downstairs And Say Hello
25. banter - email prom invite + improv song
26. Suspicious Minds
27. banter - Medicine request
28. Medicine
29. banter - NY and Boston
30. Stay With Me Jesus
31. banter - one more request
32. Center Of Attention
33. "Theme From Liam"
34. Bad Bad World
35. Rocketship
36. What You Call Love
37. So Long
38. Empire State
39. Two Points For Honesty
40. banter - weird and awesome shows
41. Either Way
42. banter - longest Guster concert ever
43. Satellite
44. banter - fortune favors the bold
45. This Could All Be Yours
46. encore break
47. banter - tribute to Levon Helm
48. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down *
 
+ = played in audience (by Ryan, Adam, violin) in requestor's face and on his lap
* = off-mic, in honor of Levon Helm who passed away at 71 earlier that day
^ = sung by Jeff Garland

Acoustic Tour featuring the Guster String Players - Charlene Huang on violin and April Guthrie on cello

Recorded by Eric Vandercar.  Mastered, tracked, and posted by Scott Bernstein

Note that I spent nearly 20 hours on the very difficult mastering job it took to get this recording to sound good.  A combination of a low stand, zealously loud crowd (including LOTS of clappers / yellers), and quiet music (some played unamplified) made the perfect storm for a very difficult recording to master.  While it's far from perfect, I did my best and it's actually very very listenable now.