Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Rose on the River at the Salt Shed Fairgrounds
Chicago, Ilinois, USA
2024-07-07

Taper:
EnglishSkylarking

Location:
Centre ~ 70' from stage

Gear:
> Audio-Technica AT943 / Sound Professionals SP-CMC-8 w/ 4.7k mod
> Homemade 12v BB
> Sound Professionals SP-ATEN-1
> Sound Professionals SP-SAPM-1-USB-C
> ASUS Zenfone 8 (24-bit/48kHz WAV via Pfitzinger Voice Design's Field Recorder using in:B)

Processing:
> iZotope RX11 (Phase adjust, declip, saved-as 24-bit/48kHz WAV)
> MAGIX Sound Forge Pro 16.1.4 (EQ, fades, resampled/dithered/saved-as 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV)
> TLH 2.8.4.185 (FLAC Lvl. 8, FFP)

On this night Karl Denson's Tiny Universe was:
Danielle "Dani Danger" Barker - vox
Karl Denson - vox, saxophone, flute
Ricio Fruge - trumpet
Ricky Giordano - guitar
Alfred Jordan Jr - drums
Parker McAllister - bass
Rashon Murph - keys

Play Time - 00:50:14
B For My Name @
I'm Your Biggest Fan
Satisfied
Tailwhip #
-banter-
Supernatural Slide
-banter-
Rabbit Hole $
Elephants

@ Beastie Boys
# Men I Trust
$ Why Mona

Notes:
Whoever was running the board was pumpin the bass for Karl Denson, and I ended up with a lot of
clipping. I let iZotope have a go at it, and I think it's mostly listeable, but it for sure has
imperfections. It was also r a i n y on this final day of Rose on the River all the way until
Vulfpeck when it finally stopped for the day. Probably because of the rain KTDU started 10 min
late, and gave us some fantastic jams for 50 minutes. I had my rain coat on and the pitter-patter
of rain hitting the hood can be heard and mostly between tunes. I tried mitigating it with the
de-crackle and de-pop modules available in RX10 and Sound Forge, however, I found they didn't
do much even when beginning to compromise the music, so I've just left that imperfection as-is.
Try hearing it as it as a funk/jam/asmr fusion. Anyhow, these guys were fantastic and worth
getting waterlogged for. Despite the rain, the band also seemed to be having a great time, and
Karl gave us hard-cores willing to come out into the rain for the music a shout-out. Dani Danger's
voice was an incredible stand-out where she took the lead in Tailwhip and Rabbit Hole. Parker's
bass becomes h u m o n g o u s for Elephants, perhaps in representation of those elephants.

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