Greg LaFord's Collection
John Martyn & Danny Thompson 06/15/2001
King's Lynn Corn Exchange, King's Lynn, UK
| Source | Sennheiser 421's>Sharp MD-MT831H>MD |
| Media | CDR 1 disc |
| Notes | John Martyn & Danny Thompson ("The Sunshine Boys") King's Lynn Corn Exchange 15th June 2001 Sennheiser 421's>Sharp MD-MT831H>MD. Playback on Sony MDS-JE530>Dio2448> .wav>CEP (normalisation & limiting)> MKW 0.97beta1>.shn with seek tables appended. ** See below for more info about processing ** taper: Alasdair Macdonald 1. Intro (1:01) 2. The Glory Of Love (4:06) 3. Don't Want To Know > (3:22) 4. ?? (5:25) 5. Bless The Weather > (2:09) 6. Beverley > (2:43) 7. Make No Mistake (4:17) 8. Spencer The Rover (4:33) 9. Danny Thompson banter (9:46) 10. Blue Monk (2:34) 11. More banter (1:05) 12. Dealer > (5:37) 13. Outside In (5:45) 14. May You Never (4:40) 15. Sweet Little Mystery (6:00) 16. More banter + broken guitar string (4:49) 17. Solid Air (8:06) - encore - 18. The Easy Blues (3:58) Total Time : [79:56] ** There is a minor issue with regard to my archived raw audio: I initially transferred the Minidiscs to my PC and made a rough version with the edits detailed below. I then discovered that there was a flaw in the rough version, specifically at 5:28 of Sweet Little Mystery. I therefore made a 2nd transfer to the PC, this time I did the transfer twice and compared the .wavs after transfer, in order to verify. I got a good transfer of minidisc #1, however I discovered that I had accidentally erased minidisc #2. There is therefore no .shn archive of the unprocessed minidisc #2 (since by this time I had deleted the raw .wav files from the first transfer). In other words: there is at least one flaw in the last 1/2 of the show that might not have been present on the master minidisc, but which could only be repaired using computer- magic. In addition, the limiting which I used to make the between-songs applause closer in volume to the (very quiet) songs also cannot be undone. Which barely detracts from the quality of the music... I'm not aware of any other flaws in the show. The first 1/2 was re-processed in EXACTLY the same way as on the rough copy (limiting the applause then normalisation), only this time it was done from a known-good version. This is the editing: ==================== Because the music is so quiet, and the audience applause usually very loud by comparison, I ran Cool Edit Pro's limiter over the clapping sections to keep the peak levels down (to a maximum of -13db). Once this was done I then normalised the entire audio, by multiplying all sample values by 4, and adjusting for DC offset. This brought the music up to a far more acceptable level. Because the entire show ran to just over 80 minutes, I chopped out a little bit of applause in order to make it fit onto on (80 minute) CD. (Mostly prior to the encore). I found a glitch at 5:28 of Sweet Little Mystery, seemed it was possibly a repeated section of about 1/2 second, which I cut out and smoothed the join. After saving I used shntool fix to correct the lengths of this and all subsequent tracks. (This was in the erased-master section, however the pre-repair version is archived along with the unprocessed raw audio from minidisc #1). I swapped the channels, on stage John was on the Left and Danny on the right. The support act was a solo singer / guitar player and I simply don't have the slightest idea of his name. He's on the archive .shn for part #1. alimac@netcomuk.co.uk 9th March 2002. |
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· Last Updated May 23, 2023
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