Del McCoury Band
2005-04-23
Elgin, IL - Hemmens Cultural Center

Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
Ronnie McCoury - mandolin, mandola, vocals
Robbie McCoury - banjo, vocals
Jason Carter - fiddle, vocals
Mike Bub - bass, vocals

Taper: Brian Skalinder / bskalinder@yahoo.com
Location: Row N, Seat 28, center, seated crowd, mics just above head level
Mic Config: DIN (20cm, 90º)
Source: Schoeps MK4 > KCY 250/2Ig > Sonosax SX-M2/LS2 (0dB) > Lunatec V3 > Nomad JB3
Conversion: Nomad JB3 > Adaptec FireConnect 4300 > Notmad Explorer > PC
Format: 16-bit, 44.1 kHz
Editing: CD-Wave (tracking), Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (fades)

DISC ONE

01. [ intro ]
02. Traveling Teardrop Blues
03. Count Me Out
04. Hillcrest Drive
05. Hard On My Heart
06. Luckiest Man 'Twas Born
07. [ banjo tune ]
08. Nashville Cats
09. [ fiddle tune ]
10. It's Just The Night
11. My Love Will Not Change
12. I Feel The Blues Moving In
13. Get Down On Your Knees And Pray
14. Same Kind Of Crazy As Me
15. [ instrumental ]
16. Queen Anne's Lace
17. All Aboard
18. [ fade out ]

DISC TWO

01. [ fade in ]
02. Evangelina
03. Never Grow Up Boy
04. Seventh Heaven
05. Bluegrass Country
06. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
07. Gone But Not Forgotten

ENCORE 1

08. Eli Renfro
09. Asheville Turnaround
10. Rawhide

ENCORE 2

11. [ fiddle / banjo tune ]
12. Nothing Special
13. Cold Rain And Snow
14. [ instrumental ]

NOTES:

To seamlessly join the two discs, simply remove D1T18 and D2T01.

This is NOT a flawless recording. But the performance and quality of the overeall music recording are mighty fine! As far as I know it's the only recording of the evening.

The sound was excellent - *very* good sound reinforcement instead of simply blasting amplification, but also pretty quiet. Consequently, the recording required GOBS of gain on the V3 (+63dB!) in order to run levels hot for the music, even though I expected THUNDEROUS applause louder than the music. Whaddya know, the crowd provided THUNDEROUS applause (as they should for the *real* DMB!).

Compressed the applause between songs to make for easier listening. Compressed some applause during songs, but only down to the level of the music. A handful of slight bumps by me into the clamp due to the tight space of my single seat, including these two biggies:

d1t09 - during applause for Jason Carter's intro
d2t12 - very beginning of song


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