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16 bit / 44100 Hz version
2 stereo pair MATRIX
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Artist/Band: Matt Andersen
Date: 2010-07-15 (Thursday)
Title: Summer Evening Blues
Venue: 17th Ottawa Blues Festival - Hard Rock Cafe Stage - Outdoors - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Estimated crowd size: 11,000
Weather conditions: 27° C - 60% humidity - 10-15 km/h winds - 20 km/h gusts
Source: Open-Air Audience/Stealth
Lineage: CA-11 Omnis > CA-9100 (1/8" inputs) + CA-14 Cards > CA-UGLY (1/4" inputs) > Zoom H4n @ 24 bit/48 kHz > .WAV's > Wavelab Studio 6 (matrix) > Sound Forge Pro 10.0a (normalize) > CDWav (tracking) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > .WAV > Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (dithered and downsampled to 16 bit/44.1 kHz) > Trader's Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC
Recording location: 10 metres from stage, FOB, 0.5 metres right of dead center
Sound Quality: EX+, A, 9/10 - Excellent sound on this one. It's very close to a SUP-, A+, 9.5/10 but for a few artifacts. Dennis did a great job with the mastering.
Recordist: Seth Meister
Mastered by: Dennis Orr
Release date: 2010-12-25
All photos taken by Seth
Band Members:
Matt Andersen - guitars & vocals
Please support artists by attending concerts & purchasing their official merchandise:
http://www.stubbyfingers.ca/
http://www.myspace.com/mattandersenmusic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Andersen_%28singer%29
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Setlist
01 Intro 0:25.44
02 Shout Baby, Shout 3:51.61
03 I Play The Fool For You 5:51.09
04 Better Man Blues 4:50.45
05 Ain't No Sunshine 5:30.65
06 Working Man Blues 4:03.43
07 So Gone Now 7:22.20
08 One Size Never Fits 3:12.73
09 Round And Round 3:16.29
10 Chat While Restringing Guitar 1:05.67
11 Have You Got The Blues? 8:15.51
12 Devil's Bride 4:08.52
13 Chat While Restringing Guitar 1:29.03
14 Tell Me 5:33.55
15 Outro 0:52.19
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Total Time: 59:50
Total .wav size: 604.02 MB
Total .flac(5) size: 295 MB
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As usual, Matt put on an awesome performance. Powerful and moving. Matt broke 2 separate strings during his performance and changed them quickly on the spot.
This is a great recording. I'd been trying to keep my digicorder in my water section of my camelback backpack because it is lined with foil to keep the water cool which I figured would also help with the huge problems I'd been having with cell phone interference with some of my other recordings throughout the festival. After my initial tests yesterday it seemed to be working, however today it was putting too much pressure on the 1/8" cable input and this caused a loss of signal on and off during my recording of the earlier Dana Fuchs set. Although I was using the same technique as I did at the Dana Fuchs show, I didn't have any signal loss on this one.
Later that night, I accidentally ran into Matt after having met Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi and he was kind enough to take a photo with me. He told me that he didn't mind people reording his shows as long it's for personal use and they're not making money from it
Things to listen for:
Unfortunately, there's a little noise bleed from an adjacent stage. It's not often and it's not bad.
At about 1:20 into the first song there's less than a second of interfernce from cables being put under pressure in my bag. It happens again for a second or so during track 11.
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No compression was used in the post-processing of this recording to preserve it's dynamic range, listenability and authenticity.
This recording will naturally sound much better cranked up loud with quality headphones!
Peace & enjoy,
Seth