Corb Lund & The Hurtin Albertans
12/02/15 (Wednesday)
SLO Brewing Company
San Luis Obispo, CA

Neumann KM-140s (ORTF) >35 ft XLRs >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48)
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Amplify, Down Sample & Dither To 16 Bit / 44.1k) >FLAC + Tags (Level 8) Via xACT 2.37

Microphones Mounted To Front Center Ceiling Post, 10ft High And 9-10 ft From Stage Center.

Recorded, Transferred, FLACâ€™d & Tagged By Jeff Bowen, aka OldNeumanntapr  

01. Intro
02. Goodbye Colorado
03. Run This Town
04. Weight Of The Gun
05. One Left In The Chamber
06. Bible On The Dash
07. Mein Deutsches Mottorad
08. Cows Around >
09. Buckinâ€™ Horse Rider
10. Hurtinâ€™ Albertan >
11. Good Copenhagen
12. Little Rock*
13. Gonna Shine Up My Boots
14. Dig Grave Digger Dig
15. Roughest Neck Around
16. Big Butch Bass Bull Fiddle
17. This Is My Prairie
18. Family Reunion
19. I Wanna Be In The Cavalry
20. Sadr City
21. Gettinâ€™ Down On The Mountain
22. Rye Whiskey
23. Time To Switch To Whiskey
24. Encore Break
25. S Lazy H**
26. Washed-Up Rock Star Factory Blues
27. Five Dollar Bill

Corb Lund - Electric Guitar, Vocals
Kurt Ciesla - Electric Bass, Stand Up Bass Fiddle, Vocals
Grant Siemens - Electric Guitar, Mandolin
Brady Valgardson - Drums

*Hayes Carll cover
**Corb Solo

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I almost didn't get to record that night. My friend Kip, the SLO Brew house soundman, is on tour running sound for his band so he wasn't there to help me. I got to SLO Brew at 5:30 pm, at soundcheck, and walked in the side door. I asked Corb's soundman about audio taping and he was unaware that Corb allowed it, and didnâ€™t seem like he was going to be helpful. (He later apologized and I said, â€˜No worries. Itâ€™s OKâ€™.) 

He said, 'I have no idea. I'd have to ask Corb.' I said fine, and that I could wait. They were just starting the sound check and appeared to have some kind of problem with the PA. He told me a minute or two later, 'It doesn't look like it's going to happen. Sorry.' 

I said, 'Ah, does that mean no soundboard or nothing at all?' He said nothing at all, so I said, 'Oh well. I guess I'll go home.'

I was literally walking out the door when someone tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around. A voice said, 'Hi, I'm Corb. What can I do for you?'

I described what I do and what I would like. I told him that I would like a soundboard, but would settle for an audience recording. It was his call, since he was the artist. Corb said that it would be easier on him if I did an audience, as I wouldn't have to bother his sound guy, and he also said that he didn't like the sound of the board mix in the small clubs. I agreed, and said that sometimes all you get is drums and vocals with little to no instruments. (I always had Kip boost the instruments in my mix, for bands like The Mother Hips.)

You have to be both persistent and gracious at the same time, but often times everything works out. :)

It took me almost an hour to hang the microphones, run the cables, tape them down, and set up the preamp, recorder and headphone amp. I use long XLRs to be able to set up the Tascam recorder and Beyer mic preamp near the board, out the way of the Mongol Hordes and near the AC power supply. I can also sit on a stool next to the board and not have to stand through the show.

When I started to set up the mics, the SLO Brew manager (who I didn't recognize) came over to me and demanded to know what I was doing. I started to say that Kipp always let me hang mics from the front ceiling post, but just then Todd, a former owner and presently only the concert promoter, came over and said, 'It's OK. Jeff has been coming here for years.' That was nice, because we'd never actually met, though he obviously knew who I was. I'd seen him there for years but never spoke to him. Thanks again Todd!

The recording sounded great through the headphones, though the board has dust in the sliders and when the soundman would adjust them it sounded like there were insects inside! My new Fiio e12 headphone amp is awesome and lets me monitor the sound even in a really loud environment. (The Sennheiser 770 closed headphones also help a lot too.) The Neumanns were run ORTF at least 10 feet high on the front center ceiling post, on an Atlas mic bar mounted to my little custom-made wooden shelf and bungee corded to the post.

The files have all been tagged, so no need to decode to WAV to burn discs, as that would strip the metadata. Iâ€™m not sure where the break between discs should be. As my friend taper Roy says, â€˜Salt & Pepper To Taste.â€™

Thanks so much to Corb for allowing me to record and share the music on the Live Music Archive. Please go and see his shows and buy his merchandise!

Tapers: Get to the show early and ask for Corb. He gave me Carte Blanche to set up where ever I wanted to. 
