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Donna The Buffalo --- Approximate Hours: 0
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11/24/12 Rex Theater 0 Saturday, November 24, 2012 Pittsburgh, Pa. Rex Theater 1602 East Carson St. All recording, mastering & transferring done by CopyKatz Engineering. Taping & recording great music since 1972. This is my 4th posting of a recorded event online. Feel free to leave comments (positive or negative) so that as I dig into my vault for future postings I can make them the best possible for yinz all. Recording equipment: Soundboard & Octava MK-012 (matched pair) ---> -10db attenuator ---> omnidirectional capsule (matched pair) ---> Pro Co DynaMike 224S cables ---> Tascam DR-680 with phantom power turned on (tracks 1 & 2) mastering as 12bit/44100Hz .wav. Recording accessories: Shure S15A mic stand (raised 10 ft.) ---> On-Stage Stands MY700 stereo mic bar (15 in. seperation) ---> Sabra-Som SM-1 mic shock mounts & Gator G-Broadcaster bag. Recording location: right side of sbd. (the soundboard is located on far left side in the rear of the floor) ... about 80 ft. from stage Transfer: SDHC card ---> Tascam DR-680 ---> Tascam's USB cord ---> HP G60-530US Notebook Mastering: Audacity 2.0.0 (Unicode) for normalization & creation of tracks. Then to FLAC MP3 Converter to create .flac files from the .wav files at compression level 8. All checksums & torrent files created with Trader's Little Helper 2.7.0 (Build 172) *note: FLAC MP3 Converter is the name of the software. At no time has this recording been in the .mp3 format! This performance is 1 set with 2 min. encore break. *note: This is the 1st show for my Tascam DR-680 deck & also for the omnidirectional capsules. Businesses used that made this recording possible: Sweetwater - tripod, crossbar & cables Musician's Friend - deck & bag Front End Audio - mics & mounts Best Buy - SDHC card Lowe's Home Improvement Center - extention cord Culture Shop - ticket Katz tails: First off, let me inform yinz all that dumb-ass me left my headphones at home ... So I wasn't able to listen & adjust the mix, I had only visuals on the levels to go by. And with this being my first solo matrix recording I had no idea on even where to begin with the mix levels. Being the only person recording the show, I had no one to seek advice from. After listening to the show, while I was splitting it ito tracks, I've come to the conclusion that the audience should have been more prominate as the audience is barely audible between tunes. Thus the feel of the show that was desired by the matrix recording is lacking, in my own self-critical opinion. It was great to see quite a few friends that I haven't seen since back in the 90s. Alex, Todd, Lisa (even though she didn't remember me), Gumby, Jeff, Kevin, Jordan (who no longer jams with Donna, but still is part of the family, as he is their merchandise salesman) & Rikki (who I had touched base with at the "donnafans" page, but didn't know she was going to be in attendance) ... to name a few. So ... kick back ... n enjoy!!