2005-10-29, The Decemberists, at the Vegoose Festival, Las Vegas, NV.
Setlist:
01 The Infanta
02 July, July!
03 Billy Liar
04 The Sporting Life
05 Los Angeles, I'm Yours
06 The Bagman's Gambit
07 We Both Go Down Together
08 The Engine Driver
09 The Barrow Boy
10 The Leigonaire's Lament
11 Here I Dreamt I was an Architect
12 16 Military Wives
13 The Chimbley Sweep
14 The Mariner's Revenge
Notes:
Recording by Melon. Melontracks (at) yahoo (dott) com
About 20 feet from stage, about 10 feet off center, to the left
AUD ->
Core sound LCB Mics ->
Microphone Madness 7-position bass-rolloff battery box (69hz rolloff) ->
Sony MZ-NH900 HiMD (Hi-Sp) ->
WAV ->
Mastered in Audacity. ->
Flac conversion in Flac Frontend v. 1.7.1
Unfortunately, during most of this show, which was on the Snake-Eye's Stage at
the Vegoose Festival, Blackalicious was playing in the tent adjacent to the
stage. Because I used omnidirectional mics instead of cadioids, a lot of the
bass from the Blackalicious show can be hear in this recording. It's worst
in between numbers, but can definitely be heard occasionaly during numbers.
Also, there are some artifacts in the first track as the microphones were moved
to a more advantageous position about halfway thru the track. The fidelity of the
recording improves dramatically 3:05 into the first track and stay good for the
duration of the show (moved the mics up a couple of feet). There are motion
artifacts on both the first and second tracks (most noticeable on headphones).
If you can overlook these flaws, this is a decent recording of a great performance.
The band was very tight. There were two or three other tapers with mics on booms
further back who probably got better recordings than me, so you may want to
keep an eye out for their work, if they're sharing.