They Might Be Giants
Southpaw
Brooklyn, NY
December 16, 2006
(late show)

Source: AUD > CoreSound Low-Cost Binaurals > iRiver > FLAC > SoundConverter > AIFF > Sound Studio > AIFF > SoundConverter > FLAC
Taped by yltfan about 20 feet from stage, center
Remastered by neild in Sound Studio

SETLIST:
01 Intro
02 Asbury Park
03 Damn Good Times
04 Bee of the Bird of the Moth
05 Fingertips
06 We Live in a Dump
07 Birdhouse
08 E Eats Everything
09 Why Did You Grow A Beard
10 We're the Replacements
11 Till My Head Falls Off
12 She's An Angel
13 Experimental Film
14 Robot Parade
15 James K Polk
16 The Day
17 Spy
18 Older
19 Why Does the Sun Shine
20 Alphabet of Nations
21 Dr Worm
22 Meet James Ensor
23 Famous Polka
24 Drink
encore 1:
25 Feast of Lights
26 Santa's Beard
27 Snail Shell
28 This Damn Band
29 Twisting
encore 2:
30 Don't Let's Start
31 Turn Around

This recording was a collaboration of sorts. I'd been to the early all-ages show earlier in the day (which was very good), and had heard amazing things about the late show, so I was thrilled to hear that the great yltfan had been in town that day and recorded it. He wrote back that he had been using his backup gear and felt the recording wasn't up to snuff, but if I wanted to try to tweak it a bit...

The two main problems with the original recording were not enough bass, and some distortion in the loud trebly bits (mostly crowd noise, but some songs as well). The bass was easy enough to boost via EQing. The distortion was mostly a problem during the encores, and then only in the left channel, so I mixed in a fair bit of the right channel to the left during tracks 25-31, making for reduced stereo but a cleaner overall sound. Finally, I applied some light dynamic compression to reduce the very loudest bits, which were almost all crowd noise - the music should be compressed very little if at all.

The result still isn't pristine - you can hear some distortion in places with headphones - but it is an improvement. And given the performance, I don't think you'll mind - it's worth the price of admission alone to find out what happens when Flans gives the "T" signal in "Spy." (No spoilers, please.) Add in a completely spazztastic setlist ("We're the Replacements"! "The Day"!) and I think this is well worth posting.

Many thanks to yltfan for taping and sharing this. Enjoy.