La notte della Taranta Maestro concertatore: Stewart Copeland Castellazzo di Bollate (Milano), Italy Villa Arconati 17 Jul 2004 21:30 Taper: pigsinspace Taper location: Sector L, Seat 56 Lineage: Aiwa CM-30a >Sony tc-d3 (analog) >Master cassettes Conversion: Cass(M) >Nakamichi Dragon >Tascam CD-RW700 >(coax) >M-AUDIO Firewire 410 >Cool edit pro >cdwav >FLAC (Level 8 w/ Verify) The CD-RW700 is used only for the A/D conversion. There is no DAE. Conversion by: Carlo Bolchini May/Jun 2005 Size: 1.62 GB Compressed: 924 MB Disc 1) 9 tracks First C90 tape. Acoustic songs, no Copeland in it. Disc 2) 12 tracks 2nd C90 tape Disc 3) 2 tracks Side a of 3rd C90 tape Sorry no setlist because this is very long and I am lazy. This was quite a nightmare for a taper. First my seat was veeeery far from the stage (and the speakers) so the sound is obviously distant. Then, people was continuously standing up and down, up and down, .... so the sound and the volume leves suffer a lot from this endless change. I tried also to shift to the center corridor to try to mitigate this, but many other people started dancing everywhere, so I couldn't really do much. People was really enjoying this show so whe have clappers, shouters, ... But, this was really an exiting show specially for us italians, I enjoyed it a lot. Three hours of popular italian music! I corrected many of the problems, specially trying to mitigate the most prominent volume fluctuations. I know more can be done and there still are volume changes, but seen this is not a top quality recording, I did not really want to spend more time on it. Disc 1 is almost untouchted, I've left it as-is. This disc is mainly of acoustic songs, with few musicians an singers, and some parts are really quiet. So quiet that at some point you can hear me bump the microphone to see if there was some problem with it since I could not see any volume led light on. I couldn't raise the volume otherwise people clapping would have distorted. There is no Stewart Copeland on disc 1, but a track by Ensemble Bash. Probably the set should be passed through a compressor. There is a cut of about 1'10s in d2t2, I do not know why the mic jack jumped out of its plug (probably some dancer bumped my recording bag). -- This file created by Carlo Bolchini 5 Jun 2005