Blue Cheer
October 10, 1987
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, CA

Soundboard with microphones - live matrix mix from cassette master. Fairly excellent sound quality - please check the sample to decide for yourself how it sounds.

1. announcer intro > Parchman Farm 7:26
2. Babylon 4:21
3. Nightmares 5:03
4. band intros 0:15
5. Red House 8:17
6. Bony Maronie 6:40
7. Ride With Me 9:19
8. IÕm A Man 2:19
9. Out of Focus 3:43
10. Hoochie Coockie Man 10:14
11. Girl Next Door 4:13
12. Summertime Blues 6:55
encore:
13. Midnight Hour 7:25
14. final thanks & crowd noise 0:41
CD: 76:51

Monitor soundboard feed with 2 Crown PZM microphones mounted on the low ceiling over the stage, 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones (also over the stage) and one other ambient microphone mounted on balcony railing - Live matrix mix.

Dolby B Maxell UDXLII-S90 cassette > Sony auto-reverse cassette deck. Transferred with Nakamichi Dragon (Dolby B decoded) > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools > AIFF. FLAC files (level 8) created with xACT (sector boundaries verified). md5 file created with checkSUM+.

The soundboard signal is rather overwhelmed by the loud stage sound on this recording which makes the final result sound more like an excellent audience recording rather than a pretty good but not spectacular sounding board tape. Please don't complain that this doesn't sound enough like a soundboard - it did end up a lot better with than it would have without the board signal, even if it is not extremely noticeable in the audio!

ENJOY!