<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> 2 excerpts of literally hours of totally unguided freestyle space-style improvisations at the monthly improvisation evening at Kraakkroeg 'de Onderbroek' (squat pub 'the Underpants')....Always loads of fun
Probably not anyone's cup of tea, but you might enjoy listening to this
Performance: some friends on various acoustic instruments and a Roland MC-202 synth; me on Creamware effects (fed by 2 microphone channels) and a cheap Behringer 19" mixer
PA: unknown old, crappy
Recording: stereo pair of 'Realistic PZM' microphones 2 meters in front of a crappy PA, straight to DAT
Mastering: Creamware PEQ4, OptiMaster
I tried to remove a bit of the 'boxiness' of the recording and get back some bass punch. Wich is almost impossible, thanks to the bad PA and accoustics of the venue
drinks: loads of ecologic beer and wine
Encoding: Lame 128 kbps ABR
The encoder had a hard time maintaining stereo separation at 128kbps VBR and CBR; ABR128kbps appeared to sound best
This was the first time I brought my Creamware-PC with me to this venue... I was tweaking a couple of Creamware effects, to create feedbacking atmospheric drones and funny noises and also mixing the sounds from the podium (behind the PA:-) , so it's not always well-balanced)
I'm referring in this posting to the "january 5, 2003 semi-electronic" recordings, as there might be other recordings on the link.
p.s. You might neeed to press the 'back' button in your browser after downloading a track to return to the download page: apparently I need to do some additional work on the perl script
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I just played back the ('mastered') mp3's through a Vinco and Optimaster and it sounded much tighter (I'm using different monitoring now)... so guess I'll remaster the recordings soon
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