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String Cheese Incident – Santa Barbara, CA (02/03/99)

String Cheese Incident
02/03/99
Coach House North
Santa Barbara, CA

Neumann KM-184’s (ORTF) >PSC Phantom Supplies >SBM-1 >Sony TCD-D7
(Microphones Hung Directly Underneath AKG 414s)

DAT Master Transferred Via Tascam DA 30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Disc 1:
Set One

  1. Lester’s Poem >
  2. Suntan
  3. 100 Year Flood >
  4. Rhum ‘n Zouc
  5. I’ve Just Seen A Face
  6. Well You Needn’t
  7. Don’t Say >
  8. Rhythm Of The Road (hyper version) >
  9. Rhythm Of The Road (normal version)

Disc 2:
Set Two

  1. Impressions
  2. Missin’ Me >
  3. Remington Ride
  4. Good Times Around The Bend

Disc 3:
Set Two cont

  1. Shine >
  2. Pirates
  3. Restless Jam >
  4. Restless Wind
    (Encore)
  5. The Old Home Place
  6. Superstition

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was the second time that I saw and recorded String Cheese Incident. By this time they were no longer allowing soundboard patches but welcomed audience recording. However, they wanted everyone to patch through a set of AKG 414 microphones which were set up on a stand in the middle of the room, center. (I don’t remember if the AKGs belonged to the band or another taper.) Because the room was small and space was limited the venue was only allowing one microphone stand to be set up. I didn’t want to patch and pleaded with them to allow me to run my own mics. They asked me what did of mics I had and I said that I had Neumann KM 184s (my 1st set of Neumanns before I sold them to get the KM 140s with detachable capsules), and I remember that one of the tapers / crew, said “Those are good mics. Let him run them.” They allowed me to hang the KM 184s under the AKGs by reversing my Atlas microphone bar. Sadly, no one else elected to plug into my mics / deck so I have the only KM 184 master from this show. This was before I had purchased my Beyer MV 100 microphone preamp from Pete Min, a taper I met through the online list-serve ‘DATHeads’ and was using the PSC phantom supplies I had borrowed from Pete which required me to use the Sony TCD D7’s internal microphone preamp. Pete owned both the PSC phantom power supplies and the Beyer preamp and I decided after using both to go with the Beyer because it was small and could run both channels in one box, whereas the PSC phantoms were in two separate boxes. The internal microphone preamp on the little DAT recorders could overload easily and brickwall, so I thought the Beyer had more precise control. The SBM 1 outboard A/D converter allowed for mastering at 16bit/44.1kHz, which the Sony TCD-D7 would not do on its own. Sony changed that with the arrival of the TCD-D8.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

String Cheese Incident – Santa Barbara, CA (03/08/98)

String Cheese Incident
03/08/98
Coach House North
Santa Barbara, CA

Digital Soundboard Master, Sony TCD-D7
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO
CD Masters >FLAC Via xACT 2.48
FLAC Tags Via xACT 2.53

(Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

Set I
Disc I:

  1. Lonesome Fiddle Blues
  2. Got What He Wanted
  3. Lester had A Coconut
  4. Svingin’ with Svend
  5. Another Night
  6. Born On The Wrong Planet
  7. Moonflower
  8. Black Clouds

Set II
Disc II:

  1. Walk This Way
  2. Blue Bossa
  3. Mtn Girls
  4. All Blues*
  5. Good Times
  6. Boogie On Reggae Woman
  7. Don’t Say > Jam >
  8. San Jose

Encore:

  1. Elvis’ Wild Ride

*w/Keller Williams on mouth flugel

Keller Williams opened

Oldneumanntapr Notes;
This was my very first String Cheese Incident show. My friend Dave and I drove down to Santa Barbara to see the show. I had heard that the band was taping friendly, but when I walked in and asked about recording I was asked if I wanted a straight board recording or a matrix. That blew me away! I elected for a straight board recording, and I gave my D7 DAT and patch cable to one of the band’s crew who plugged it into a long chain of DATs on a plastic folding table. They ran all the decks so I had nothing to do for this show but to sit back and watch the performance. I was amazed with how tight they were. Progressive bluegrass at its best!!! This show definitely made me a SCI fan!!

The next time I saw them, again at the Coach House North the following year in 1999, they no longer allowed soundboard access but still welcomed audience recording. It was good while it lasted! The Coach House North, formally the Red Dog Saloon, is a small club with a really low ceiling in Santa Barbara, close to Milpas Street near the beach.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉