Little Feat
The Bear�s Den
Seneca Niagara Casino
Niagara Falls, NY
January 1, 2010

Taper: Bigdaddybflo
Gear: DSM-6 > D8
Mastered by }{eywood
Lineage: wav @ 16/44.1 > Adobe Audition 1.5 (EQ) > Izotope RX2 (filling in the blanks, light NR) > plugin enhanced AA 1.5 again (stereo spatialization, sweetening EQ, WNS, limiting, splits & fades) > TLH (SBE fix, flac 8)

A lot of problems with this tape. There was a loose wire on the mics, and the left channel had an abundance of blank spots from it. Between songs a little wiggling around of the wire caused some drop outs in the right channel as well. Consequently, the left channel of the recording has been eliminated and replaced with the right. The remaining flaws in the right channel were repaired, some by volume envelopes that countered the level drop, others with Izotope Rx, then the result was spatialized into stereo, re EQ'd, and tracked.

There is a multifrequency high pitch squeal, I assume caused by the loose wire messing the ground up, that I didn't remove because it killed too much of the musical content to remove the frequencies. The hiss has been toned down a bit, but you'll notice bursts of it where the volume drop spots were. These spots were boosted 18 dB compared to the rest of the show, so the hiss cranks up accordingly. Fortunately these are only short bursts. There are several spots where the dropouts couldn't be fixed, either by editing a piece from elsewhere in the song into the hole or by interpolation of the surrounding area, because they were either in mid lyric or because there was no similar part to copy. I've left these spots blank, but removed the crackle and clicks around them.

Normally I wouldn't go through this much trouble, but Big Daddy said he never found another recording of this show. This may be the only tape made there that night, so it needed to be restored for history's sake.

01 Hate To Lose Your Lovin'
02 Rocket In My Pocket
03 Cat Fever
04 Spanish Moon
05 All That You Dream
06 Representing The Mambo >
07 Sunday Jam
08 Willin' >
09 Don't Bogart That Joint >
10 Long Black Veil >
11 Willin'
12 Cajun Girl
13 Dixie Chicken >
14 Bass Solo >
15 Key Solo >
16 Dixie Chicken >
17 Tripe Face Boogie

Encore:

18 Oh Atlanta