Mike Gordon Band
2014.03.19 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR

Source: Zoom H2 rear 120° stereo mics @16/44.1
Location: FOB/(slightly right of)DFC, approx. 40 feet from the stage, 6' high

Taped, Tracked, and Tagged by Penn42

Set I

01. Jumping
02. Radar Blip
03. Jones
04. Spiral
05. Spock's Brain
06. Twists and Bends
07. Angatta
08. She Said She Said
09. Tiny Little World

Set II

10. Intro/Donut Handout
11. Surface
12. Meat
13. Long Black Line
14. Peel
15. Another Door
16. Mississippi
17. Morphing Again
18. Hand In My Pocket
19. Soulfood Man
20 Encore Break

Encore

21. Yarmouth Road
22. Skin It Back

Notes

-I bought this little Zoom H2 recording device about 6 years ago to record myself playing saxophone so I could listen back and see what I needed to improve about my playing. Since then I have used it for many many things. Recording lectures to ambient noise in hallways/rooms to concerts. I'm still pretty amazed by the quality this little thing can produce.

-There are a couple tones that Mike could hit that were super duper resonant in the room and they caused what sounds like distortion from my little recorder. I don't know that much about recording, but I believe there's a type of distortion that comes from the diaphragms being overloaded or something like that. I would guess that is the cause of this since I know I wasn't peaking. Most notably that I remember you can hear it in Angatta and Another Door. It's not super bad, but now you know about it.

-There is a little audible crowd chatter throughout, but it's mostly in between songs.

