Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown & Gate's Express
Tipitina's
New Orleans, La.
Sept. 27, 1996



1 Gatemouth Brown intro > Bits and Pieces 6:45
2 River of Invitation 9:01
3 Unchained Melody intro 1:03
4 Unchained Melody 8:28
5 Honky Tonk 7:18
6 What a Shame 9:23
7 Take the A-Train 5:38
8 Big Mamou 4:04
9 Chicken Shift 5:58
10 The Drifter 14:07
11 Pressure Cooker 9:12
81:02




1996 original broadcast source: WWOZ-FM > unknown receiver > cassette > ? > CDR > eac > flac (level 8 compression)

1998 rebroadcast source: WWOZ-FM > unknown receiver (probably Sony Walkman) > probably Sony DTC-690 > Sony TG90P 120-meter DAT (32kHz long-play)

1998 rebroadcast transfer (August 2010): 32kHz DAT > Sony PCM-R500 > (coax spdif) > Metric Halo MIO-2882 firewire interface > Macintosh MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > MIO Console 5.2.00.153 (record panel) > 96kHz split stereo wav files > Bias Peak Pro 6.1.1.19585 (converted to 44.1kHz - best setting, split stereo files combined) > 16bit 44.1kHz aiff/wav files > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, split into songs, normalized by 15.7 db) > aiff/wav > xACT v1.71 (sector boundaries re-checked, level 8 compression) > flac

Additional editing (March 2011, sources combined, re-transfer to flac): flac files from two sources (above) > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > X Audio Compression Toolkit 1.71 > aiff/wav > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (see editing notes below; indexed, split into songs) > Xact 1.71 (sector boundaries repaired, level 8 compression) > flac

Notes: This show was originally broadcast in September 1996. Many years later, it was circulated via bit torrent. That cassette-sourced recording was mastered too fast. In the spring of 1998, WWOZ rebroadcast a little more than half of the show during the station's annual Jazzfest proceedings. The quality of the rebroadcast recording is an improvement over the recording that circulates from the original broadcast, and it's also at the correct speed.

This recording was created by taking the rebroadcast and combining it with the last half of the original broadcast recording. For this source, the speed of the original broadcast recording was repaired (using the 1998 rebroadcast as a guide).

Editing notes: Original broadcast was slowed down about 4% (using Bias Peak's 'modify sample rate' feature and then sample-converted back to 44.1kHz-best quality setting). The rebroadcast source (from April 26, 1998) was not as "bright" as the original broadcast recording, so some EQ was applied to make the two sources sound similar. A -4.8db low-shelf filter was applied at 2,170 Hz (using Bias Peak's Freq4 plugin). The rebroadcast recording was out of phase compared to the other source, so it was inverted. The volume of the rebroadcast recording was then raised another 5.2 db.

The final 39:25 of this recording is from the (modified) original broadcast source, with an 8-second crossfade. The splice occurs about 8:52 into Track 6.

In addition, there is an 18.2-second splice from that source (with a 2-second crossfade out) starting at the beginning of Track 5 to repair a passage where a DJ interrupts the program. (There remains a very short DJ interruption).

Finally, this show circulates as September 21, 1996. Tipitina's schedule, however, lists the show as Sept. 27, 1996. (To further confuse things, during the rebroadcast, a DJ announces the show as being from August 1996, which is incorrect.)