new monsoon
12-2-2005
The Sweetwater Saloon
Mill Valley, CA
Acoustic show

Taper: Robert Cogswell
Source: Multi-channel recording. Crown SASS P Mk 2 on stage center.  4 Crown CM-700 mics on stage monitors -> Shure FP-42 mixer-> Sound Devices 744T HD recorder.

Transfer: Wav->Audacity -> 2-track 24-bit stereo wavs->Samplitude 7.2 (normalization, tracking, fading, dithering and downsampling)
Transfer by: Robert Cogswell

Set I
D1:
1. Bo's Blues
2. Trust in Me
3. Puesta DelSol
4. Spanish Moon
5. Romp
6. Mando Banjo Jam-> Mountain Air

Set II
7. Border Ghost

D2:
1. Continental Divide
2. Lotus Dreams
3. Didj->Broken Picture Window
4. Blast
5. White Sky Rain
6. Bridge of the Gods

Encore
7. Fearless (1)

1) Santana tease prior to starting song.

Jeff asked me after the show how it compared with last year's Sweetwater acoustic.  I replied that both shows were great but there was no basis for 
comparison, as the vibe was totally different.  Last year it was a quiet, 
seated, toe tappin and head noddin crowd-with the illusion that the boys were playing a private party in your living room.  This year the front tables were taken out, creating a sizeable dance floor, and it was a standing, hard dancin', very chatty and, in a few cases, way too drunk gathering.  The band fed off the energy-it wasn't a laid back jamming show like last year.  It was a very good show-prob my fav of the recent run of 3 in the Bay Area.  In general I'd have to say the band is jamming more than the were a few mos. ago.  White Sky Rain is my current fav, and this one is the best I've heard.  Lotus Dreams, another personal fav, wasn't as good as 

Robert Cogswell's notes on his recording
Notes on New Monsoon from The Sweetwater Saloon, Mill Valley CA, 12-2-05.

Recording gear used:
Stage Mic: Crown SASS P Mk 2 stereo condenser PZM (pressure zone microphone).
Other Mics: 4 Crwon CM-700 mics were used, 1 on each frontline stage monitor.
Mixer: Shure FP-42
Recording device: Sound Devices 744T hard disc recorder.
The stage mic was connected to the 744T via the power XLR inputs.
The CM-700 mics were powered by the FP-42, mixed and panned into 2 channels fed
into the 744T via the line inputs.
The recording resolution was 24/48.
The files recorded were trensferred to an external hard drive and mastered as follows:
The Broadcast PCM wavs were mixed down in Audacity to a 2-track 24-bit wav in stereo,
and the 2-track wavs were mastered in Samplitude 7.2 (normalization, tracking, fading,
dithering and downsampling).

Below are the results of the sbe correction (1st) and the stripping (2nd) done before
flac compression.


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     5:44.67      60840340     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t02.wav
     9:56.30     105206116     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t03.wav
     9:27.21     100069348     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t04.wav
     8:20.30      88271716     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t05.wav
    22:20.15     236411324     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t06-fixed.wav
    22:20.16     236414474     -b-   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t06.wav
     9:27.01     100021196     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s2t07-fixed.wav
     9:26.74     100019714     -b-   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s2t07.wav
   105:55.32    1121107618 B                      (totals for 9 files)

   length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
     8:52.03      93851900     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t01-stripped.wav
     8:52.03      93853390     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t01.wav
     5:44.67      60839228     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t02-stripped.wav
     5:44.67      60840340     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t02.wav
     9:56.30     105205004     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t03-stripped.wav
     9:56.30     105206116     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t03.wav
     9:27.21     100068236     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t04-stripped.wav
     9:27.21     100069348     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t04.wav
     8:20.30      88270604     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t05-stripped.wav
     8:20.30      88271716     ---   -e    ---    nm20051202d1s1t05.wav
    22:20.15     236411324     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s1t06.wav
     9:27.01     100021196     ---   --    ---    nm20051202d1s2t07.wav
   116:29.18    1232908402 B                      (totals for 12 files)


last year's but better than at Earthdance, and always a treat.

Can't wait for Feb 4 at Fillmore!

Bob
