Carolyn Wonderland
12/05/15
SLO Vets’ Hall
San Luis Obispo, CA
SLO Blues Society

Neumann AK-40s (ORTF In Hat) >LC3 >KM-100s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48)
WAV >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a [Sony Clipped Peak Restoration; Waves MaxxBass (Bass Enhancer); Waves Maserati DRM Drum Slammer (Bass Drum Enhancer), Other Minor Edits] >
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Downsample / Dither To 16 Bit / 44.1k) >FLAC + Tags (Level 8) Via xACT 2.37

Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC & Tags By OldNeumanntapr
Sound Forge Pro Post Production Work By Dennis Orr

Recorded 8 ft From Stage In Front Of Right PA Stack.

01. Walk On*
02. Starting To Rain*
03. The Things You Do**
04. Building A Fire**
05. Welcome Home
06. Come Together
07. Honey Bee
08. She Wants To Know
09. Victory Of Flying
10. Only God Knows When
11. Samson & Delilah
12. New Song**
13. Cumbia Raza^
14. What Good Can Drinkin’ Do?
15. Living In The Palace Of The King
16. Golden Stairs
17. Walk On

Carolyn Wonderland - Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Trumpet^, Vocals
Cole El Saleh - Keyboards, Bass
Kevin Lance - Drums
Shelley King - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

*Shelley King Solo
** Shelley King w/Carolyn & Band

Back Bay Betty Opened.

OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I love Carolyn Wonderland. This was a great show and would have been a lot better recording if my levels hadn’t of been so high. I preset them in the car but the knob must have been bumped in the bag because when I got back to the car I noticed that the recorder was on 7 which is way too high, especially for being up front. I really enjoyed Shelley King, who played acoustic guitar with Carolyn’s band, and also played solo acoustic to open the show with a couple of songs. She was pretty, had long brown hair and a big butt, PLUS was a pretty good singer and guitarist. What more could you want? :)
Carolyn plays a wicked blues guitar and really shines on lap steel. She alternated between guitar and trumpet for the Los Lobos song Cumbia Raza, and did a stellar job. I really kicked myself because if the levels were lower this could have been an A+ recording. It’s so hard to see the damn levels on the recorder in my hip pack at a stand-up show. I can’t bend my head down enough to check levels because it can pull the capsules loose from the hat. That actually happened early in the set, and I had to reinstall the mics, so I just decided to leave the deck alone. I had thought I set them conservatively enough, but didn’t realize that they were so high. I’m getting too old for these stand up shows anyway. My back really hurts afterward. I guess that’s why I’m the Old… Neumanntapr. ;)
Thanks to Dennis Orr for salvaging this recording. I shudder to think what it would have ended up sounding like if I tried to fix it. ;)

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