Cowboy Junkies
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Vancouver, BC
October 3, 2010 - Early Show
Source #2 16 bit 44.1 khz CD ready ReMastered version
Source: Genexxa 33-3007 electret unidirectional condenser mics (re-branded Shure Prologue 16 mics) taped to the stereo bar of Dennis' mic stand > custom HyTek XLR to 3.5 stereo jack > Zoom H2 mic input @ 24 bit / 96 kHz
Location: First row, left side, 6' from stage front, mics at 4'
Recorded, transferred and remastered by Audioarchivist U - 101.
Thanks to Dennis Orr for the ticket and the space on the bar!
Transfer: Zoom H2 > USB > Hard Drive > Wavelab 5.01b (tracking and mastering) > SoX resampler (96 khz to 44.1 khz) > iZotope RX Advanced (24 bit to 16 bit) > Trader's Little Helper FLAC8 > YOU!!!
Setlist:
Disc 1
01 A Few Bags Of Grain
02 Crescent Moon
03 Me And The Devil
04 Oh I wish we had happy songs
05 I Cannot Sit Sadly By Your Side
06 My Fall
07 Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
08 Keith Richards story
09 Moonlight Mile
10 Sir Francis Bacon At The Net
11 four albums in 18 months Vic Chestnutt
12 Supernatural (1)
13 Small Swift Birds (1)
14 Renmin Park (1)
15 Don't Let It Bring You Down
16 Dreaming My Dreams With You
17 small crew our website our merchandise
18 band intros & thanks
19 Lost My Driving Wheel
20 encore break
- Encore -
21 Misguided Angel
(1) Margo, Michael, and Jeff only
Margo Timmins - vocals
Michael Timmins - guitar
Peter Timmins - drums
Alan Anton - bass
Jeff Bird - harp, mandolin, & "Shaky things"
Audioarchivist notes:
I have to thank Dennis again - I didn't know that Cowboy Junkies gives free tickets to tapers! So, I guess the band got a 2 for 1 deal on the taper +1 guest list pass that he got! We had special reserved seats up at the front, but, sadly, to the side. Still, I think we got a fairly balanced and interesting mix sitting less than 10 feet from Michael! We were allowed to set up slightly early, and allowed to stay between the early and late shows. It was great to be able to record a band like this from right up front, and not only to be allowed to record, but to be encouraged to come with a free ticket for tapers! How cool is that! Support the band : go to their website CowboyJunkies.com
The Zoom H2's internal mic preamps are known to be kind of noisy, and they do probably make a level of noise on this recording. Despite the small noise level, I was impressed with the high end response on my recording. I think you can hear the air around the band! haha. The Shure Prologue 16's (I hate to call them a Radio Shack product! haha) each take a 1.5v AA battery. I know they are not the best mics, but I think I can see signal up to 30000hz on the master recording! The mids and lows on my version are not bad, and I've done some minor EQ work to sweeten the downsampled and dithered CD version presented here. I've also done some level balance and volume adjustments to this version limited to -.01db (just in case of extreme peaks) but not compressed. Dennis' version has much better low end, except for a small flaw in his recording with some low interference (I think). It would be interesting to matrix mix our recordings, as his has more detailed low end and mine has very good highs. Hmmm......
I will also share my 24 bit 96 khz version soon.
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