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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 9:41 am
by ernest@303.nu
<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.ole-records.com/index.html?onderbroek"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Song"> Song</a><BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects<BR> no ©opyrights :-)<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 :smile:
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 :grin:
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:52 am
by hubird
sounds ok to me :smile:
I couldn't be there that night, you know.
Nice to have a chance now to hear some stuff anyway!
I like it a lot, good improvisations, good coordination and nice sounds! :smile:

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:52 am
by ernest@303.nu
Any perceived coordination is purely accidental :razz:
But thanks Huub for liking the recordings.

I'll put some other excerpts online and remaster the whole bunch soon....