White Iron Band
2008-08-15
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Rock the Boat
Anson & Betsy Northrup paddle boats
St. Paul, Mn

Vega Productions fundraiser for music in the schools
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Taped by: dave kunath (o-canis) dpaulku@gmail.com 
Location: 6" from right stack (see notes)
Mic Config: See notes
Source: ADK51TL/hc > Musilux > Oade T+mod UA-5 (opti @16/48) > JB3 wav

Format: 16-bit, 44 kHz 
Editing: Adobe Audition 1.0 (see Post Notes)
         CD-Wave (tracking/flac)
         Traders Little Helper (SBE check/repair)
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Guests: 
Tim Saxhaug - 5 string bass all night
"someone unknown" - drums first tune
"someone named Rock/Rocks" - vocals on Good Hearted Woman.



ONE Set [110:25]

01... intro Tom foolery
02. "Gotta Roll" 
03. Big River
04. "Oh My Lord"
05. Whiskey Drunk & Bullet Proof
06... banter/tuning
07. Devils Sweet Revenge
08. Three Steps
09... banter/tuning
10. 
11. Minnesota Pride
12... banter/tuning
13. Good Hearted Woman
14. "Ah, ha"
15. "Outlaw band" > 
16. "Whiskey & Water"
> (recommended disc split)
17. Quinn The Eskimo
18. Willy Nelson Ruined My Life
19... banter/tuning
20. "Dead n Gone"
21. "Let's Get Together One More Time"
22. Red Neck Mother 
23. Minnesota Pride
24. "a bit of Bathtub Gin"
25. 
26... Minnestoa Pride  banter/tuning
27. Walking Contradiction
28.    \



Source Notes:
There is noticeable distortion, possibly speaker driver related, that rattles on the first tune and a bit later through the night.  Not much can be done about it.  

Venue configuration and the limitations of the PA system dictated that I roll from a near stack location.  The left mic was aimed into the "stage" while the right was angled into the middle of the two way PA main... some smallish EV model.  This allowed some capture of the drum kit apart from the kick drum which was the only piece of that in the mix.  All vocals and instruments went DI or were mic'ed into the mix which the right channel captured.

Hyper card pattern was employed not because of any design, but as a carry over from the opening minutes of the opening act.  Card pattern may have been a better choice.

Post NOTES 
(Only post processing noted below was applied to this material.)

Editing done in 16bit/48khz realm:
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 - Channel mix - New Left/lt 85% rt 55%  New Rt/lt 56%  rt 100%

 - Parametric EQ - tracks 19-27 only
100hz/150hz width/+4db

 - Fades - IN/out (Seamles transition between discs.)
 
Resample/dithered to 16bit/44.1khz
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Random Notes:
Rock the Boat indeed.  By the time this show started the half of the 650 who bought tix for this were well into their cups.  As a consequence it became increasingly difficualt as the evening wound down to protect the mic placement at stage side.  Audience members blurred the line between stage floor and dance floor to where eventually fans were three deep into the stage and the band was fighting for their own space to manuver.  Late into the set I had to rescue and physically protect my mics from an over served dood who found the sight of mics at waist hight just too much to ignor.  (He had proceeded to remove my wind screens and had started to tap a few bars with the beat on the mic grill.)  

With the area infront of the mics now filling up, I uncoupled the mic mount from the stand and hand held it above the crowd for approx 30 min in order to continue to capture some sort of stage signal.  I eventually had to break down and pack up because it was just too difficult to manage both the hand holding and the blocking of the gear.  Approx the last 20 to 30 minutes of the evening went unrecorded.  As a point of reference, by this time of the evening they were reprising Minnesota Song for the third time.  This is the 
first time I've ever bailed on a band... 