David Lindley
01/18/11
SLO Brewing CO
San Luis Obispo, CA

Third Row Center:
Neumann AK-40s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100s >Beyer MV-100 >Sony TCD-D8 (16bit/44.1k)
Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >S/PDIF >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Masters >WAV Extracted Via xACT 2.37

WAV >iZotope RX4 Advanced & Adobe Audition 3.0 (Clean Up) >
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.37

Recorded, Audacity, FLAC & Tags By OldNeumanntapr
Post Production By Flying M Productions

01. Way Out West In Kansas
02. The Poor Old Dirt Farmer
03. Little Green Bottle
04. In The State Of Arkansas
05. Well Well Well
06. Brothers Under The Bridge
07. Brass Monkey Medley
08. Revenge Will Come
09. When A Guy Gets Boobs

Encore:
10. Mercury Blues
11. Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

David Lindley - vocals, Saz, Weissenborn lap steel guitars, bouzouki, Turkish oud

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
I believe that this was the first time I’d recorded David Lindley since the Cuesta College show with Wally Ingram in 2001. I was having trouble finding new DAT blanks at the time, and I was forced to use a one-pass tape that looked to be in pretty good shape. Unfortunately, the recording had little digital errors sprinkled throughout and I was not happy and considered this show a total loss. However, My friend Mike was able to do some amazing things in post production to repair the damage. His full notes are listed below, but to put it simply; IT IS A HUGE IMPROVEMENT!!! My hat is definitely off to his monumental efforts. This was probably the last time that I saw Lindley play the Turkish Saz. I’m not sure why he hasn’t taken the Saz on the road recently, because he is such a brilliant player. My friends Dave, Brian and Lorna were with me at this show and I’m certain that they will also be happy with the improvements in sound on this new version. (It’s not really a remaster, because I’ve never sent this show out before because of the previous errors.) Lindley only played SLO Brew two additional times after this show before the building closed for demolition.

Mike Notes-
Did remove most all of the digi-noise one way or the other.
I used copy and paste on a lot of this
Similar to my clap removal method which is so simple.
Look for the brightest vertical lines and then copy something next to it and paste it over the bright spot.
Not necessarily do you copy the entire frequency band (stay away from the bottom/low frequencies). If a sound stutters then try copying less or from somewhere else. You might hear a little of that but I tried to be careful.

Have used a lot of different methods and this has now become one of my favorite. so easy to "see" noises in this frequency vs time format.
Included a screen shot for you to see what I am talking about.
Low frequencies are on the bottom and this goes up to 22 KHz at the top of the display. Most of the crackling digi-noise was in that upper frequency area (8-22KHz). Used the repair (replace or attenuate) tool on that sound.

Tried multiple tricks on most of these noises and used the one that came out best each time. Being able to select an area (a box around the noise) the area of noise was repaired leaving most of the rest of the signal alone.

So little overall degradation. About 250 repairs +/- in the first 45 minutes.
A couple places that were too bad to repair were just sniped out (shhh don't tell the taper) Listen for the edits and you should not even be able to find them even comparing side by side. Makes it listenable and otherwise it was awful.

Started at about 7AM and it is now 3:30PM and it is time for a nap.
Will start work on the second half tomorrow. I have been digging this show all day. An American classic who only gets better with age (more eccentric?)

Mike

Additional Notes-

Laughed pretty hard during the "boobs" song as I am over weight and relate to everything Dave said.

Additional lineage would be: iZotope RX4 advanced & Adobe Audition 3.0 (clean up) Made 4 passes from beginning to end looking for noises to remove but it is quite possible I missed something.

Came up with a fix for the few seconds during the vocal part in the second song. The same phrase was repeated elsewhere in the song.
Used one of those repeated lines for a 2 second patch to cover up the "noisy" one. Nothing quite matched up so I only used the signal from 5KHz up for the patch. Synced with the original low frequencies so it didn't sound "off".
Imagine laying a photo of a picket fence onto another photo of a picket fence and lining it up. Patch can be found between 3:52-3:54.
You can hear it if you listen closely but when you’re playing the concert it goes by quickly and it hides the bad noise pretty well. Creative editing.

No other way that I knew of to fix these long digi-noises.
The other 2 bad spots were instrumental and so just "snipped out" on the beat so they are invisible (I hope). Were you able to find the 2 splices, I can't anymore and I made them.

You will be glad to know that I got rid of your enthusiastic neighbors clapping. In fact I modified some loud whistles and loud screams by spot attenuating them so they are not so disturbing. Some coughing and a lot of whispering from the neighbors was also reduced. Clunks and tics were removed to be sure they were not part of that digi noise. Was probably you bumping your microphones or the cables once in a while. Pretty much did the exact same thing I do with all of my recordings.

Spliced the 2 halves together and removed the overlap. So the concert is missing a couple seconds but it is so minimal as not worth mentioning.
Nice project for me as I had to stretch a little to figure out how to do some of the repairs.

Bet this was a big disappointment at the time.
Not now.

Enjoy,
Mike


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