Another live-improvisation from us, silly fools, at 'de Onderbroek' in Nijmegen, Netherlands....
Taken from a couple of hours of DAT recordings that night.
No preparation, no song, no clue; just a bass, a guitar, drums and 'someone' with a Roland MC-202 and a cheap toy-keyboard with some built-in 8-bit samples (a japanese shouting "clap your hands!", a cheesy hihat and a chord-sound) with pitch-control
Not everyone's cup of tea again! But then again, we weren't drinking tea at that time.
No Creamware during the performance this time, though but only afterwards
Recording: pair of Realistic PZM microphones, straight to DAT.
mastering: PEQ4 and OptiMaster (trying to compensate for the fact that everything is recorded through 2 microphones above the audience, making the bad low-end acoustics of the venue very apparent...)
I used loads of compression on the mid frequencies to get some of the punch back.
NOTE:
This time I've used 90 kbps OGG-compression... even at this low bitrate, the ogg-file sounds comparable to a 160 kbps mp3 file!
IMHO there's no way of even getting close to the quality of ogg at any bitrate with other compression formats
to play .ogg-files with Quicktime/iTunes and OSX:
download this
just drop the plugin into the /Library/Quicktime folder
(information taken from: http://illadvised.com/~jordy/ )
To play on a Windows system:
Microsoft Media Player 7.0 seems to play .ogg-files just fine, but I'm not sure whether older versions understand .ogg....
Or use WinAmp
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