moe.
4-25-02
State Theatre
Portland, ME 


Source: AKC c422 stereo microphone (8' @SBD) > AKG S42 controller box> 
Edirol UA-5 24bit / 96kHz > N-track
2nd set mastered on CoolEdit 2000 at 16bit / 44.1kHz 
resample/dithering of 24/96 master done by SF 6.0 > cdwav for tracking 
> mkw for SHN encode
mastered live by nick@nickspicks.com

Retracked via cdwav and Soundforge 5.0  by Blake_Phillips@baylor.edu
Added appended seekables.

Requires 2 80 min CDRS,  or you can shuffle the tracks and/or 
take out crowd tracks to refit 74 min media.

Disc 1: (1:14:33)
01: That Chuck Tune
02: Not Coming Down
03: The Ghost of Ralph's Mom
04: Tambourine
05: *Cornflake Girl >
06: *Happy Hour Hero >
07: *Seat of my Pants
08: Tuning
09: Crab Eyes

Disc 2: (1:15:33)
01. None Such River
02. Buster >
03. Jazzwank >
04. Spaz Medicine >
05. Recreational Chemistry
06. Crowd Noise
07. Little Wing Fooler
08. Fire


d1t01 very gradual gain increase at 2:58 
* d1t05  schoeps mk4>m148>sbm1 patch at 13:29
* d1t06  schoeps mk4>m148>sbm1 patch

Taper Notes:
N-Track recording software crashed on me upon saving the 1st set 
resulting in the corruption of 
the master .wav file.
I patched what I had with the source mentioned above (Carl Beck's rig).
d1t01  starts out w/the mic running in the cardioid pattern, X/Y at 
90degrees.
Starting at 10:05, i switched the polor patterns through 4 settings 
increasing in 5 second 
intervals.  it goes something like this:
10:00 XY cardioids > 10:05 tight cardioid > 10:10 hyper-cardioid > 
10:15 super-cardioid> 10:20 figure of 8.
At this point the mic is now set in blumlein stereo (90degree crossed 
figure of 8s on a 45degree axis).

second set was recorded at 16bit resolution
d2 starts out in blumlein and then at the 11:minute mark, (d2t03 : 30) 
I make a quick jump from 
figure of 8 to cardioid, changing the stereo technique from blumlein to 
X/Y.
25:00, into the set, I change from cardioid to hyper-cardioid still X/Y
30:05, I change from hypers back to figure of 8 blumlein and remain 
there through the end.
not sure how this works out on the individual tracks, 

I was experimenting w/the stereo features of this microphone.  X/Y and 
Blumlein both share the exact same
capsule allignment, so it is just a matter of changing polor patterns 
of the diaphrams 
(via AKG S42 control box) to change the 
stereo technique.  For more info and a graphical represantation of how 
these stereo methods work,
 visit http://www.nickspicks.com/faq-stereoplacement.htm.
