Bonnie "Prince" Billy
2014-03-03
Fabrik
Hamburg

Sound Professionals SP-CMC-8 Cardioids > Sony RH1 (PCM-mode) > Hi-MD > Sonic Stage > wav > Audacity (level adjustments, trackmarking, some leveller for loud clapping) > TLH > flac level 8

recorded 8 meters from stage, right side

TRT: 92:52 min


01. Idle Hands Are The Devils Playthings
02. The Brute Choir
03. > New Partner
04. Lend Me Your Light
05. talk
06. 5
07. The Lion Lair
08. talk
09. Hard Life
10. talk
11. Whipped
12. May It Always Be
13. Three Questions
14. No Bad News
15. West Palm Beach
16. talk
17. Royal Quiet Deluxe
18. Weaker Soldier
19. A King At Night
20. talk
21. Kentucky
22. Easy Does It

-1st encore -
23. Make It Not An Evil Mark
24. Black
25. I Am Goodbye

- 2nd encore
26. I'm On My Way Home Again (The Everly Brothers)
27. Raining In Darling




Extremely quiet solo show, an empty stage, just one micstand, truly acoustic, the guitar amplified over the same condensator microphone as the voice.

That's the first problem, I had to set the levels rather high, so the cheers and applause were way over the levels and I picked up every shuffle of feet, every hushed voice (all were hushed, very quiet audience) and every bottle noise. The applause I lowered by 5 dB.

The other problems were selfinflicted. Worried that the encore might exceed the capacity of the md I tried to change it during the first encore break - but he came back so fast that the recorder was still saving the data, so I restarted it but missed the first chord of - I fixed that as good as possible by a short cross fade, but it's noticable, plus a couple of handling noises when I stuffed the recorder back into my jacket.
I changed the md during the seond encore break, but that was even shorter, so I missed the first 4 lines of the Everly song - did a crossfade again, but that's even more obvious.

If you can live with these shortcomings most of the recording sounds alright.