TERRAPIN HILL HARVEST FESTIVAL (volume 4)

This is a generic text file for the Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival (Harrodsburg, KY - 2009-09-24 through 2009-09-27) with additional specific notation for each band.

Despite the mud and the rain, I recorded pretty much the entire weekend.

My setup is a Zoom H4n, with an 8 foot mic stand. For the most part I used no bass rolloff. Except for late night jams where people were jamming around my recorder, I used the 90 degree mics. I recorded everything to 16bit wav files. After normalization and tracking I encoded everything to FLAC using dbPoweramp, and made md5s using Trader's Little Helper. That's all.

I'm releasing all this in chronological order of what I recorded.

My methodology was as follows. For stereo recording, I got as close to the stage and set the mic stand as high as possible. The mud and rain didn't always make this a good spot. For the Pavilion stage I tried to stay right off the dance floor, DFC, and raised the recorder as high as possible. For the 4 channel stuff (on the Chapel Stage) I was parked safely under the sound tent. I got one set off the main stage before it was rained out due to 4 inches of water in the sound tent! Due to memory constraints I did not record everything in 4CH mode, only the more well-known bands. I did not record any of the first acts of the mornings. I also screwed up exactly twice and missed stuff I shouldn't have (totalling about an hour and a half.)

taped and upped by

-John "Radar" Radawski


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GREENSKY BLUEGRASS (2009-09-24, the Pavilion Stage)
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2CH stereo audience

d1

01. soundchecking
02. more soundchecking
03.
04.
05.
06. China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
07. tuning
08.
09.

d2

01. time capsule story > debut song?
02. jam > Wind Cries Mary
03. Wandering Road
04.
05. John Hartford song
06. banter
07. harvest banter > song
08. banter > jam
09. Jam > When Doves Cry

This set was moved to the Pavilion Stage from the Chapel Stage due to weather.

This was a rather interesting and intimate set. The distinction between the band and the audience was broken down in more ways than one. You will hear a washboard and a djimbe. These guys were not in the band. This wouldn't be so bad, but they were pretty terrible. I moved up closer to the stage between the discs, and these guys also moved up. I asked them to tone it down, and they did for a few songs, but alas they were grooving way too hard to move to the back of the pavilion or quit altogether. I'd been wanting to see these guys for a while now, and they did not disappoint. The guy with the washboard, however, did. Ugh.

Don't let me talk you out of downloading this though. The jams are great, and the audience adds to the recording in most places.

Any help with the stlist is greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thank you Pete and Brenda! Thank you Dan Carpenter and all the other guys from LP sound for working in the crappiest conditions and still rocking the great sound! See you next year!

There is more to come.

If you have to contact me try john.radawski @ da goooogle mail dot commmmm or look for me on facebook!