Carolyn Wonderland
12/05/15
SLO Vets’ Hall
San Luis Obispo, CA
SLO Blues Society
Neumann AK-40s (ORTF In Hat) >LC3 >KM-100s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DR-100mkII (24/48)
WAV >Sound Forge Pro 10.0a [Sony Clipped Peak Restoration; Waves MaxxBass (Bass Enhancer); Waves Maserati DRM Drum Slammer (Bass Drum Enhancer), Other Minor Edits] >
WAV >Audacity (Track Splits, Downsample / Dither To 16 Bit / 44.1k) >FLAC + Tags (Level 8) Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, Audacity, FLAC, Tags, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Sound Forge Pro Post Production Work By Dennis Orr
Recorded 8 ft From Stage In Front Of Right PA Stack.
- Walk On*
- Starting To Rain*
- The Things You Do**
- Building A Fire**
- Welcome Home
- Come Together
- Honey Bee
- She Wants To Know
- Victory Of Flying
- Only God Knows When
- Samson & Delilah
- New Song**
- Cumbia Raza^
- What Good Can Drinkin’ Do?
- Living In The Palace Of The King
- Golden Stairs
- Walk On
Carolyn Wonderland – Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Trumpet^, Vocals
Cole El Saleh – Keyboards, Bass
Kevin Lance – Drums
Shelley King – Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
*Shelley King Solo
** Shelley King w/Carolyn & Band
Back Bay Betty Opened.
OldNeumanntapr Notes:
I love Carolyn Wonderland. This was a great show and would have been a lot better recording if my levels hadn’t of been so high. I preset them in the car but the knob must have been bumped in the bag because when I got back to the car I noticed that the recorder was on 7 which is way too high, especially for being up front. Even after Dennis’s post production work there is still a hint of distortion on this, which bothers me because it could have been better if I just would have prevented the levels from getting too high. I really enjoyed Shelley King, who played acoustic guitar with Carolyn’s band, and also played solo acoustic to open the show with a couple of songs. She was pretty, had long brown hair and a big butt, PLUS was a pretty good singer and guitarist. What more could you want? 🙂
Carolyn plays a wicked blues guitar and really shines on lap steel. She alternated between guitar and trumpet for the Los Lobos song Cumbia Raza, and did a stellar job. I really kicked myself because if the levels were lower this could have been an A+ recording. It’s so hard to see the damn levels on the recorder in my hip pack at a stand-up show. I can’t bend my head down enough to check levels because it can pull the capsules loose from the hat. That actually happened early in the set, and I had to reinstall the mics, so I just decided to leave the deck alone. I had thought I set them conservatively enough, but didn’t realize that they were so high. I’m getting too old for these stand up shows anyway. My back really hurts afterward. I guess that’s why I’m the Old… Neumanntapr. 😉
Thanks to Dennis Orr for salvaging this recording. It’s not perfect but it’s better than it was. I shudder to think what it would have ended up sounding like if I tried to fix it. 😉
DO NOT Convert To MP3!
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