Coteau
38th annual National Folk Festival
Wolf Trap Farm Park
Vienna, Va.
July 16, 1976

(from National Public Radio broadcast; sometimes mislabeled Washington, D.C.)


1 radio intro 0:39
2 Sterling Richard a cappella 0:16
3 interview 3:06
4 Zydeco Gris-Gris 3:59
5 Bosco Moscow Stomp (excerpt) 5:25
13:28

Source: NPR-FM broadcast > unknown receiver > unknown tape deck > Radio Shack "Realistic" C-90 low bias cassette, (no Dolby). Recorded by Ben Windham.

Transfer to DAT (2001): master cassette > Nakamichi CR-7A (playback head azimuth optimized, no Dolby) > Tascam DA-P1 (44.1 kHz sample rate) > DAT

Transfer to flac (2010): 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) > 16 bit, 44.1 kHz split stereo wav files > firewire hard drive > MacBook Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) > Bias Peak Pro 6.2.0.21692 (trimmed, see editing notes below, split into songs) > aiff/wav > xACT v1.71 (sector boundaries checked and repaired, level 8 compression) > flac

Editing notes:
* EQ applied using Bias Peak's Freq-4 plugin (3.3db boost at 667Hz, 2.0Q and 10db boost at 4.5 kHz, 0.9Q)
* Volume raised 5 db
* Noise reduction using Waves' professional Z-Noise v7.0 plugin (-14db reduction, 0.0 threshold, adaptive setting, punch optimization, EQ profile of -17.3 db at 4.4kHz, 0.58Q - bell shape curve)
* Volume raised another 4.2 db

Coteau:
Bessyl Duhon
Michael Doucet
Gary Newman
Bruce MacDonald
Kenneth Blevins
Danny Kimball
Sterling Richard
Dana Breaux