RatDog
December 30 2001
Kaiser Auditorium
Oakland, California

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Recorded By Kevin Brockway
Nakamichi CM-300 microphones (with CP-4 shotgun capsules) >
Tascam DA-P1.

[15' Shure S-15A mic stand, fully extended.]

If you're interested, the stand was located in the center of the
taper's section, on the right edge next to the left side of the
center "aisle" that divided the section. It was lucky to make it
through both nights without being touched by a balloon.

Originally recorded at 48 KHz on [DDS tapes] DAT.

The same DA-P1 was used to play back the master tape
(within a week of the show) into the computer
(Pentium III 600MHz, 512MB RAM) via coax (Monster) cable
into the sound card (Creative Live! Platinum 5.1)
and is recorded to my hard drive using Cool Edit Pro,
which also did the sample rate conversion to 44.1 KHz.
Editing for CD (including fades) were added using Cool Edit Pro.

If you got a CD directly from me:
Feurio was used to assign tracks to the [single] wave file and burn the CDs.

SHN files:
CD-WAVE was used to break the wave file into separate (track) wave files,
and mkw Audio Compression Tool was used to compress to shorten.

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Taper's Notes:

The performance itself was top-notch, so I'm glad the tape came out well.

I humbly think that this is a great sounding recording, and is completely
worth a good listen. There are absolutely no "glitches" to endure
in the recording, and there is more than 12 hours of music.

There are, however, two "caveats" that should be included for the more
obsessive [like me] among us:

1) THE FIRST SET (Although I like the way it sounds...)
The first set of the first show [RatDog 12/30] was taped without any "pad",
but I didn't like the way the deck's level indicators behaved [due to the
shotgun capsules' extra-mighty ability to gather sound], so after that set
I switched on the Tascam's 20dB pad and all the rest of the sets were recorded
with the pad. I'm glad I did that because I like the final result much better.
Turning the pad on allows me to turn up the input levels and get a
livelier response from the Tascam. I think the character of the
sound improved, too. But you might never have known if I didn't say so.  :-)


Kevin

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Tracks and Timings (for the Feurio version):
[Give and take a few seconds here and there for the Shorten version]

Ratdog 12/30/2001 [all one set]
	CD 1	56:17
	track01	03:50	jam>
	track02	07:31	Playing in the Band >
	track03	08:32	Mississippi Half Step >
	track04	08:21	Even So >
	track05	10:09	October Queen >
	track06	01:32	Playin' jam >
	track07	02:06	Matilda Mother >
	track08	06:00	Tomorrow Never Knows >
	track09	03:35	Matilda Mother >
	track10	04:36	Blackbird

	CD 2	64:04
	track01	07:02	El Paso >
	track02	11:37	Corrina >
	track03	12:59	Eyes of the World >
	track04	04:38	Bass and Drums >
	track05	08:27	Ashes and Glass >
	track06	03:21	Help on the Way >
	track07	05:11	Slipknot! >
	track08	10:45	Franklin's Tower


Notes:

- There were sbe's o the last track of each disc which I have fixed. A new md5 and an shntool file have been made.
- This is an edited text file as the original also referred to the other bands that played.


SIRMick
December 2014

