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Andrew's Collection

Canvas Solaris   08/31/2008

Storybook Farm (ProgDay '08), Chapel Hill, NC
Source audience cassette -> CoolEdit -> WAV -> FLAC Frontend -> FLAC
Media Flac CDR   1 disc
Tech Notes "Hey, did you record, uh, Cheer-Accident this morning?" ;)

"Notes:

Recorded with my usual set-up of a Panasonic portable
tape recorder connected to two decent external microphones.

This one is a heartbreaker. Canvas Solaris put on a
smokin' set of "technical prog-metal" (for lack of a better
description), that was short but sweet. Unfortunately, the
glitchy left-microphone problem that I had been having ever
since the Ain Soph set the day before became an epidemic
during this set. The introduction and first three songs
are mostly OK - just a few minor, tiny glitches here and
there that I "fixed" by mixing them into mono. But on
"Solar Droid" and the song listed as "song 5", that left
microphone just went nuts - it would record fine for a
couple minutes, then suddenly start dropping the volume
down to zero again and again and again, anywhere from a
second or two at a time up to almsot a minute. There's
almost as much mono in those songs as stereo. Then, for
no apparent reason, the problem went away and the final
eleven or twelve minutes of the set had very few dropouts.

I did the best I could with CoolEdit to try to fix this one
up, but it's definitely not recommended for headphone
listening. I just played the whole thing through my
computer speakers while listening from across the room
and it didn't sound too bad. The first few songs and the
last one sound great.

The faint audio that you can sometimes hear when the band
is between songs was either cell phone signals or a radio
broadcast that the PA system was picking up.

Any help with the missing two titles in the set list would
be most appreciated.


About ProgDay:

ProgDay is an outdoor festival of progressive rock
that has been held annually since 1995. In 1996 it
was expanded from one day to two and has been hosting
anywhere from eight to eleven progressive rock bands
each year since. The event takes place at beautiful
Storybook farm, unless rain forces it indoors (which
has fortunately only happened twice in the festival's
history). It's a relaxed atmosphere, where you can
view from anywhere you want - right up against the stage
for the bands you like, or back in the vendor tent while
CD shopping during bands you're not wild about. The
people are friendly, and the band members often hang out
all weekend taking in the show and chatting with fans
when they're not on stage. If you're a prog rock fan
and can possibly attend, it's well worth the effort.
The festival just barely breaks even (or sometimes
doesn't), so every ticket sold really helps. Go if
you can.


About Canvas Solaris:

These guys filled the "prog metal" slot of the festival,
although that description is a bit misleading. Their
music is entirely instrumental, and while the guitars
are crunchy, they also add keyboards and focus on both
complex compositions and technically precise, stop-on-a-dime
performances. They appealed to both the headbangers and
the "prog snobs" in the crowd.

http://www.myspace.com/canvassolaris


FLAC Fingerprints generated by Trader's Little Helper:

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CanvasSolarisProgDay08T02.flac:e4bdef45dd3d8a17d2b840ead01ee58b
CanvasSolarisProgDay08T03.flac:197b29d73aff223b1b938aceb6fd226f
CanvasSolarisProgDay08T04.flac:3463b9db3f6bdd4f1749f5d3ff0a5514
CanvasSolarisProgDay08T05.flac:8f2f446b5cfcfbe76202845b6032f211
CanvasSolarisProgDay08T06.flac:f8aa6f78260361a05693e39f7a2377ca
CanvasSolarisProgDay08T07.flac:0ce09ecc759ee77a9555baf949568f6f"
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A/+    Sound: A/-
Owned by Andrew · Last Updated May 23, 2023