Notes, comments and mutterings from Stewart who likes to pretend that he's a sound engineer
Recording problems this year.
About 15 minutes before the concert, I
found my trusty Marantz recording deck wouldn't record. After
fiddling with it right up until the concert started, I pulled out my
backup recorder, a Zoom H4....Which I Had Never Used Before. I spent the
next 20 minutes in the dark figuring out how to record with it.
Meanwhile Bob Beimers, a Broadway stage foreman who's surely seen much
worse disasters than this, plopped his recorder on the the stage and
got the first 3 acts. Thank YOU, Bob! After that I was rattled
but OK, as the H4 did a decent job.
** My apologies to the following
people that I missed getting a shot of (and so had to crib from last
year or have no pic at all): Bob Beimers, Tony & Lynn Hughes, Jody
Kruskal. Also, David Colpitts and Keith Shackleton for whom I
have no picture at all. As I've explained, I was more than a
little rattled.....and, in some cases, it was because your act was so
mesmerizing I forgot to take a picture!
All audio is presented here in .WAVs sampled at 44.1kHz/16bit & .MP3 sampled at 192kbps; click on the
appropriate hot link to play or download.
For those that don't know, MP3s download/play a lot faster than .WAVs,
but the .WAVs (CD Quality here) are better sound fidelity & quality
The original master recording was done 96kHz/24 bit sound, a whole lot better
than
standard CD quality (which is 14.1kHz/16bit) with studio grade field
equipment (a Zoom H4 recorder and a Rode NT4 stereo mike), and you
can order up a data CD from me with the full resolution tracks on it.
As
for the im age thumbnails of the performers, you can get to the
full-sized version (stored on Flickr) of any of them, just click on the
image.
To all the performers....what you write on the SignUp Sheet is what The M.C. has for announcing your act and what I use below,
so
PLEASE fill it in legibly, correctly and completely...and for group accts, please list everyone in the act!