Steve Kimock Band
Bowery Ballroom
New York City, New York
February 1, 2002

Recording and Mastering by Dan Heend - ccryder@ix.netcom.com

Schoeps CMC6-MK4V ORTF DFC Onstage -> 
25' AudioMagic Extreme silver XLR mic cable -> Grace Lunatec V2 -> 
AudioMagic Scepter silver XLR signal cable -> Benchmark AD2402-96 @ 24/48 -> 
AudioMagic Presto II silver S/PDIF cable -> DAARWIN-24 Laptop (VXPocket, Win2K CLEAR OS build v2.1, Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 2.0).

16-bit/44.1kHz CD mastering as follows:

Using Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5.0 and operating on the original monolithic .wav files noted above, 
applied Waves L2 Ultramaximizer (limiting threshold at -2dB for d1t1, d1t2 [1st two tracks of set 1], and all of 2nd set; threshold at -4dB for rest of set 1.  
Out ceiling for all tracks was -0.2dB, ARC on, 24-bit quantization with no dither/noise shaping).  
Smoothed out the transition from d1t2 to d1t3 with sample level editing because the two tracks were limited differently to compensate for different recording levels (no more than 2-3 samples on either side of the track marker were slightly modified).  This limiting was done in lieu of normalizing, and should bring some of the lower level sonic information into the 16-bit domain.
Next, the files was downsampled to 44.1kHz using SF's highest quality setting (4) with anti-aliasing filter on.  
Finally, another pass of Waves L2 Ultramaximizer was applied, this time both threshold and out ceilings set to 0dB (no limiting), but with 16-bit quantization, type-1 dither, and ultra noise shaping enabled.  
The files were then saved, truncating to 16-bit, reopened, and the regions were extracted to separate files.  
SHNTOOL FIX was run on the tracked files on a per set basis to clean up all CD sector boundary issues.
The tracked files were then divided up into CD's, and overlapping 4 second fade tracks were created using Sound Forge 5.0.  
The fade tracks can be dropped for seamless recreation of the original mastered waveform.  
SHNTOOL FIX (to verify that the fade track creation didn't introduce new sector boundary errors) and 
SHNTOOL STRIP were then run on the .wav files on a per CD basis, and the files were then SHN'ed appending seek tables.  
Finally, MD5 checksums were created for the .SHN files.


Setlist & Tracking:

Set I

d1t01 Intro 
d1t02 Sea Blues
d1t03 Bad Hair
d1t04 Elmer's Revenge 
d1t05 Sabertooth
d1t06 <fade out>
d2t01 <fade in>
d2t02 Hillbillies on PCP

Set 2

d2t03 Intro
d2t04 Cole's Law > 
d2t05 Tangled Hangers
d2t06 Why Can't We All Just Samba?
d2t07 <fade out>
d3t01 <fade in>
d3t02 Moon People
d3t03 Arf, She Cried
d3t04 Five B/4 Funk


16/44.1 .SHN files require about 1.03GB
16/44.1 .WAV files require about 1.8GB

Personnel & Stage Position:

Steve Kimock (left) - Guitars, Steel Table guitar
Rodney Holmes (center or a little to the left) - Drums, percussion, laptop computer
Mitch Stein (right) - Guitars
Alphonso Johnson (center right between Rodney and Mitch) - Bass guitars, Stand-up bass

Comments from Dan:

Lots of fun, killer sound!
The band was hot!

There is already a 16/44.1 mastering of this show from my source currently circulating, 
but this is the better mastering, performed properly before dithering/noise shaping to 16-bit.  
The previous CD mastering of my source of this show was done by Rich Perlman (thanks Rich) 
from 16-bit 48kHz DAT masters with Benchmark's NN2 dither/noise shaping algorithm already applied, 
only because that's all he had and I had no ability to master this as quickly as he did.

Enjoy.


shntool len *.shn results:

    length     expanded size   cdr  WAVE  probs   filename
     2:11.49      23223692     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d1t01.shn
    16:02.36     169781516     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d1t02.shn
    15:02.73     159284540     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d1t03.shn
    16:54.08     178888460     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d1t04.shn
    16:00.55     169473404     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d1t05.shn
     0:04.00        705644     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d1t06.shn
     0:04.00        705644     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t01.shn
    15:05.74     159816092     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t02.shn
     1:56.71      20629436     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t03.shn
    11:26.54     121137452     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t04.shn
    19:27.04     205868252     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t05.shn
    21:07.69     223661132     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t06.shn
     0:04.00        705644     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d2t07.shn
     0:04.00        705644     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d3t01.shn
    15:44.04     166531052     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d3t02.shn
    12:49.74     135825692     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d3t03.shn
    18:41.50     197862044     ---   --    -xx    skb2002-02-01d3t04.shn
   182:48.21    1934805340 B                      (totals for 17 files)
