The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Pittsburgh, Pa.
2012 Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival
Bluegrass Day
Mellon Stage
All recording, mastering & transferring done by CopyKatz Engineering. Taping & recording great music since 1972.
This is my 6th posting of a recorded event online. Feel free to leave comments (positive or negative) so that as I dig
into my vault for future postings I can make them better for yinz all. As Irene, my mom, used to tell me ... "If you're
not going to do the best that you can do ... Don't do it at all!"
Katz tails:
I was set to break in my Octava MK-012 ... but just prior to start of Greensky set (which was the opening act
of Bluegrass Day at the Pittsburgh Arts Festival) Jake, the Greensky's sound engineer asked if any of us (there
were 3 others just in front of the board) wanted a digital feed ... the others declined & I was about to also
... as this was going to be my mics 1st time usage ... but then I discussed with my neighbor about him
sending me the show & I was going to create a matrix version (I gave him my addy ... but he still has yet to
contact me about the show! So I accepted his offer (am trult sorry to have forgotten his name) as well as his
request to post it here. I remained patched to the board for the remaining 2 acts { Del McCoury Band & The
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band }. I am still awaiting reply from both artists as to my request to post their sets
online. As for my mics initial show ... it came the following day as Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers was the
festival closing act. Other notable acts at the 2012 Pittsburgh Arts Festival, which is ten days long: The
Wailors, Dawes, The Boogie Hustlers, Carolina Chocolate Drops & Kathleen Edwards. The Pittsburgh Arts
Festival is an annual event that starts the 1st Friday in June & ends 10 days later ... all music acts were
totally free!
Recording equipment:
Digital soundboard feed ---> Pro Co DynaMike 224S cables ---> Tascam DR-40, mastering as 24bit/96000Hz .wav.
Transfer:
SDHC card ---> Tascam DR-40 ---> Tascam's USB cord ---> HP G60-530US Notebook
Mastering:
Used Audacity 2.0.0 (Unicode) for normalization & create tracks. Then to FLAC MP3 Converter to create .flac
files from the .wav files and dither the files to 16bit/44100Hz, that is just the name of the software ... this
has never been in the .mp3 format. All checksums & torrent files created with Trader's Little Helper 2.7.0
(Build 172)
Setlist :
01) Banter And Intro
02) Pig In A Pen
03) Banter And Tuning
04) Is It True That I Lost You
05) Keith Little Intro And Tuning
06) On A Lonesome Night
07) Michael Witcher Intro And Tuning
08) The Fireball
09) Yuning And Paul Knight Intro
10) Panama Red
11) Banter And Tuning
12) Walls Of Time
13) Banter And Tuning
14) The Family Demon
15) Crowd
16) The Raven
17) Crowd
18) Land Of The Navajo
19) Crowd
20) Moonlight Midnight --->
21) Not Fade Away --->
22) Hey, Bo Diddley --->
23) Moonlight Midnight (Reprise)
24) Crowd
Many thanks to Mellon Bank, for taking care of the bands' fees so the public got to see all shows for free,
as well as the hospitality folk (that were all volunteers) for keeping the park clean & green (as they
maintained recycling spots in various locations throughout the park).
I dedicate this posting to Jake, the sound engineer for Greensky Bluegrass (who did sound for all 3 acts),
for openly offering a digital feed!
Checksums :
The Peter Rowan Band - tprb12-06-09.sbd.dr-40.mmkatz, created 13-02-06 { .st5 } :
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