Pink Floyd Experience
Pink Floyd Animals & More
Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:15pm
Orange County Fairgrounds
Pacific Ampitheatre

Row CC, Seat 15 (3rd row of permanent seating, about 45 degrees right of center)

ZOOM H4n (Built-in Mics at 120 degrees) 44k16 > Centon HCSD Card > Adobe Audition 3 (split tracks) > Trader's Little Helper (sector boundary alignment, FLAC encoding, MD5 generation) > uTorrent (create and upload torrent)

This recording is far from optimal. I was too close to the stage and about 45 degrees off-axis. I thought I had set levels low enough but I wish I had set a bit lower. The right channel is noticeably louder than the left channel and bass frequencies could benefit from some judicious attenuation. However, that's for the wizards to tackle (if they think the recording is worth the effort). This was my first opportunity to do a true concert field recording with the H4n.

From my perspective, the sound mix was very hit and miss. Solo instruments came up late in their solo sections, especially keyboards. The performance was energetic and I can recommend anyone who likes Pink Floyd material to go see the Pink Floyd Experience.

So, warts and all, this is the raw, unprocessed recording from earlier this evening.

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Setlist:

00 - Preconcert Ambience
01 - Walk On Drone
02 - Pigs On The Wing 1
03 - Dogs
04 - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
05 - Sheep
06 - Pigs On The Wing 2
07 - Have A Cigar
08 - Time
09 - Money
10 - Echoes
11 - One Of These Days
12 - Comfortably Numb
13 - Run Like Hell
14 - Band Introductions
15 - Another Brick In The Wall

The Band:

Tom Quinn: Guitars/Vocals
Howard Pattow: Guitars/Vocals
Gus Beaudoin: Bass/Vocals
Jesse Molloy: Guitars/Keyboards/Saxophone/Vocals
John Cox: Keyboards/Vocals
John Staten: Drums

www.thepinkfloyexperience.net

Go see them!

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Oh, please be the first to encode into 8 bit Real Audio and post on a blog somewhere. Otherwise, feel free to put on your portable device, on your media server, on a Red Book CD for the car, or whatever. If you want to put the effort into it, remaster to your ear's delight! But shame on anyone who tries to sell it on eBay or in the News Of The World Classified Section.

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Posted to DIME: Inca Rhodes: July 18, 2011