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is it LIVE??? and room mikes and stuff.
...always look for that tell-tale "additional recording done at
wally heider" liner entry on any 70's live rekkid. it lets you in on
that either they added lots of extra clapping when the undersold shows
were really blazing, or they um how shall i say this.... baked the
clams?
next.
back there a message or 4 or so there was some give and take about room
miking and i didn't have the chance to read it thorough like, but my $.02
would be:
do you LIKE the way the room sounds? really listen to it. just cause you
want a little air around your input does not always mean that the room -
or the mic you mic the room with - holds the key.
but you might say, well the room sounds like a cross between a quonset
hut and garbage bag AND I LIKE IT THAT WAY. lo-fi junky that i am,
i'd be right there with you. in which case you can do lots worse than
even a cheap PZM. or be a real sport and treat yourself to 2 of them on
opposite walls.
excelsior!
a:c
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:31:36 -0500
"Nathan Bannow" <Nathan@giza.com>
expressed:
" there is fairly well-founded
scuttlebut that his last live trio cd had many many edits per tune to
cobble together the "more perfect" solo. being the "jazz
purist" that i am, i don't think that's really kosher for a
"live" jazz disc - - especially if you have a rep as an
improvisor. (but then i think pop bands like u2 doing "fixes"
and sweetener on "live" albums blows too.)
stig
"
I'm curious as to how much "sweetener" is required by
management as opposed to the band themselves *wanting* to fix some
glitches. Case in point: The Doors;
BACKSTAGE AND DANGEROUS: THE
PRIVATE REHEARSAL. This was album is culled from one of those fixing
dates. The idea was to leave all the gear set up after the show, and come
back the next day. This way, the band could sound pretty much the same
acoustically. However, the Doors didn't like the idea of altering the
live album, and sabotaged the recording session. The result is a lot of
fun to listen to, although it took 30 some odd years to be released to
the public.
