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Rony Kohn's Collection

Yo La Tengo   11/22/2006

ZAKK, Düsseldorf, Germany
Source Video: SONY Hi8 + Panasonic D7, Audio: SBD + audio from both cameras > SoundForge8 > Vegas7
Media DVD-R   1 disc
Notes AUD SHOT, 2 CAM MIX, 5.1 AUDIO
J-Card Comment *A thir13en Production*


Yo La Tengo
2006-11-22
ZAKK
Dusseldorf, Germany



TYPE: DVD
FORMAT: PAL @3900 CBR
ASPECT: Widescreen
AUDIO: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
MENUS: Main and Track Select
RUNTIME: 137 Minutes



Pavemalk does it yet again...


From their very recent stop in Dusseldorf they gave the crowd a solid 2.25 hours of non-stop musical bliss. If you haven't caught them yet, you can still see them out there and you will want to when you see this. And go buy the new record too, or all the old ones you don't have...go, now, or after this finishes, or burn it to CD, pop it in the car player and go...now.



Tech:

The difficult decision of whether to make this a two-disc set or not was made a little simpler when I saw a sample of the video at the 4K bitrate, and I was more than pleased with the transfer quality. While 8 or 8.5K would have been nice, it also would have been a rather excessive 9G download, and all things considered I was happy to keep the 137 minutes on one disc in a very decent looking MPEG size.

The DV7 was in a proper widescreen mode, the Hi8 was not, so it was cropped to match the DV7.

SBD is a nice mix and mostly up front, front CAM covers the front with a slight tilt towards the middle of the room, and the back cam is mostly in the back mix. Again, it's about as close you can get to actually being there, and you can go there as many times as you like, sweet.

The back CAM seemed to have a 10-20 ms compression attack-release that was overloaded by the boom-of-the-room. I controlled what I could but didn't want the "pumping" that competeing compression can often cause. In some spots (like the boom-boom of the kick in the start of "...Hatchet...") you can hear it pump in and out, but really not a big deal.

There is no phasing of the three sources.

One of the cams had occasional digi-blip skips. Not sure if it was the CAM or the burn to DVDR that caused it. I fixed some but I know a few got through. It's minor.

Each CAM cut-out for a tape change, and the front CAM stopped often during the lengthy audience passages at the end of the show. I did what I could to make these sections as flow as consistent as possible. Of the two that occurred during songs, one of them worked flawlessly, the other I did notice a slight change. The audience only passages I didn't worry about all that much.




01 We're An American Band
02 The Race Is On
03 Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
04 Tears Are In Your Eyes
05 Beanbag Chair
06 Season Of The Shark
07 The Weakest Part
08 Mr. Tough
09 Saturday
10 I Feel Like Going Home
11 Sudden Organ
12 I Should Have Known Better
13 Watch Out For Me Ronnie
14 The Story Of Yo La Tengo
15 Blue Line Swinger
16 Be Thankful For What You've Got
17 Stockholm Syndrome
18 My Pledge Of Love
19 Sometimes I Don't Get You
20 Can't Forget
21 This Is Where I Belong
22 Take Care



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13 Source info
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#1-SBD>FOSTEX-D5>CDR
#2-SONY Hi8>DVDR (Front CAM)
#3-Panasonic D7>DVDR (Back CAM)

Mixed, Rendered in Vegas7
Mastered in Sound Forge8
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A+
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Owned by Rony Kohn · Last Updated May 23, 2023