Dan Bern (solo)
Joe's Pub
New York, NY
10/25/2011

Neumann TLM-170 (cardoids, FOB almost parallel to right PA, about 15' from stage) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96); FLAC File processing in SoundForge Pro 10.0c (volume normalization; some loud clap removal; 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.  tuning
2.  Party By Myself
3.  One Thing Real
4.  New American Language
5.  Sweetness
6.  Rollerblades
7.  banter - one for Dan's little girl
8.  Hen Party
9.  Too Late To Die Young
10. Chelsea Hotel
11. Haarlem
12. banter - Dar Williams' end of song flourish
13. Tiger Woods
14. No Missing Link
15. banter - heat for that song
16. It Vibrates
17. banter - back at Joe's
18. Merle, Hank, and Johnny
19. Art On The Run
20. My Magic Powers
21. Numbers
22. Massive Disconnect (1st try)
23. tuning / banter - the electric guitar
24. Massive Disconnect *
25. Turning Over *
26. We Will Not Be Divided *
27. Blue Highway
28. Long As I Can See The Sky(?)
29. Wasteland
30. banter - requests
31. Baby Bye Bye
32. thanks / encore break
33. One Piece At A Time
34. Jerusalem

There is painful bit of distortion coming out of Dan's mic at the beginning of the first song, unfortunately.  Not much I can do about that; at least the front of house sound mixer got it cleared up quickly!

* = w/Dan on electric guitar

Occasionally you can hear the subway trains rumbling by undernearth the venue (it basically sits ontop of the Astor Place subway stop).  During the few most distracting moments I could track down, I EQ'd out the bass below 500hz to minimize the problem, since there is hardly anything in those frequencies in any of this music anyway (since there are no drums or bass guitar).


Recorded, mastered, tracked, and posted by Scott Bernstein