The Bottle Rockets
Center for Arts
Natick, Massachusetts
USA
January 24, 2015 [2015-01-24]

Opening for Marshall Crenshaw. They also served as backingband for his set, but I don't see his name in the list of LMA artistes, so that is not shared here.

PERSONNEL
Brian Henneman: lead vocals, guitar
John Horton: guitar, backing vocals 
Keith Voegele: bass guitar, backing vocals 
Mark Ortmann: drums

TRACKLISTING
01 - introduction / Monday (Everytime I Turn Around)
02 - Radar Gun
03 - I Wanna Come Home
04 - Hard Times
05 - Building Chryslers
06 - Smokin' 100's Alone
07 - Big Lotsa Love
08 - Smile
09 - Something Good
10 - Listen To Her Heart  [Tom Petty]
11 - 1000 Dollar Car
12 - Dog
13 - Welfare Music

total duration = 62m:45s


PERFORMANCE NOTES
Here & there throughout the recording you can hear a 'thumping' sound. When I first listened back to things to mix them down, I thought the noise must have come from the audience, and resolved to edit it out; but upon reflection I realized it was the sound that bassplayer KV's (heavy) cowboy boots made as he ka-thunked down on the stage, to count songs off, &c. Even tho' in places it sounds like a bowling ball rolling down a flight of stairs, it IS a sound made by an onstage musician in the performance of the songs, and therefore (to me, at least) part of the music, so I left it in (for the most part --- some of the REALLY loud ones I took out). 

RECORDING NOTES
source: audience

recording gear: ZOOM H2N w. internal mikes (MS/XY 4CH surround mode @ 44.1 kHz / 16 bit) > Sandisk SD card

recording location: trade secret

recorded by: Isotope Feeney

AUDIO NOTES
imaging: stereo

TECHNICAL NOTES
generation: mixdown from MASTER recording

transfer lineage:
44.1 kHz / 16 bit stereo MASTER wav files > HDD >
ZOOM MS Decoder VST (tease out elements of MS/XY recording to isolate 3 mono soundstreams to insert into Cool Edit Pro):
 - MS L channel
 - MS R channel
 - XY L channel
Cool Edit Pro 2 (mix 3 tracks down to stereo) >
Jeroen Breebaart Red Phatt Pro dynamic processor (expand dynamic range) >
Steinberg StudioEQ (bring treble frequencies down) >
Steinberg StereoEnhancer (increase stereo separation) >
Sony Sound Forge v. 11.0 (some individual handclaps removed, louder clacking noises [caused by bassplayer stomping cowboyboot shod foot on stage?] removed) >
LMA

WAV format: 44.1 kHz / 16 bit [CD compliant]

MIXING/EDITING/PROVENIENCE NOTES
I uploaded this show to a bT tracker (I'll give you ten cents if you can guess which one!), but this = a different mix (of the same basic recording). The performance was recorded in 4ch surround mode, which gives you 4 discrete tracks (XY stereo and parallel MS stereo), plus at least one more if you wanna tease out the MID channel of the MS stream. The mix I uploaded elsewhere was my first pass at combining the different elements into a stereo mix; after a while I thot maybe I could do a little better, so I took another (more elaborate) crack at it. The mixes aren't all THAT different (I mean, how diff. can they be? from the same source files), but this one is definitely 'brighter' (maybe too much so), and I think I succeeded in bringing the lead vocals a little more to the front.

 - Isotope Feeney
 - July 2018

  
