Fifth song played at Rock in Copou, on August 19, 2007. A Lenny Kravitz cover, and not a preffered song to play for our drummer.
Later comment: For everyone that thinks the sound of this particular recording is bad, you'll have no contest from me. I already know that, you're not helping in any way with this tipe of comment, and the reason is below.
This recording was made using the following:
Sound is a mix from
- Vermona 12 channels mixer, about 25 years old;
- two camcorder's microphones, post-processed to match the sound spectra of the Vermona mixer.
Further processing resulted in boosting the sound from camcorders, at specific moments, in order to hear something from the guitar (during the show, the guitarist was driving his cab very hard and we didn't knew how much was coming from his cabinet and how much was coming from PA, hence the poor sound of his guitar on the recording).
Video is a combination of the two camcorder video streams, blended together using Adobe Premiere. Sound was separated from video and this is the reason why, on one occasion, the video and audio don't match.
Everything that is heard is made on-spot. Nothing is added to the sound and, except for the slight re-mix for partially correcting the guitar problem, everything is as it was heard by the public on that evening.
About the setup, now.
The drums (since many had complaint about the sound of the drums, or about the drumming itself, but that is another matter) were used by more than one band, and were tuned and retuned over and over. During preparations for the concert, the drums were retuned, but there was not enough time to do it properly and the result was that they detuned during the show. Our drummer could do nothing to prevent that and this is why the drums are tuned low, as it was observed by someone commenting on one of the videos.
The drums were miked using available mics, some well-battered Shure SM58 (and I am hoping they were really Shure, which I doubt), and we used 4: one at the base drum, one at the snare and hi-hat, one between the two tom-toms also capturing the cymbals and one on the floor tom, also getting the sound from the ride and the crash. Mix wasn't wery well done, the base drum was a bit too loud, and I corrected it during post-processing using a smart EQ filter.
Bass guitar was DI, straight into the mixer, using only the "bass/treble" controls on the board for shaping the sound. Considering the result, it seems to have worked well.
1st guitar was amped with a Hughes&Kettner combo, driven hard, miked with a wireless mike (that was my biggest mistake! it distorted so hard, that I lowered the sound, at soundcheck, too much to be useable on the mixer recording; actually, I wasn't able to use any other mike since we got no mike left, except the one for our vocal)
The keyboard, used in the only song that didn't fit to YouTube's 10 minute limit, was DI also.
The other guitar didn't even play very good, was the first concert he played and he didn't knew the songs very well, that's why he sat very quiet in the back of the mix.
Our vocal was at her's first ever show, was very frightened and her voice didn't quite had the stamina to maintain during the whole show. That's why, on the latter songs, she sounded very tired. We understood this, but apparently some viewers don't bother to read the notes and/or doesn't know how to put two and two together and conclude that her voice was simply tired.
For those that require some different setup for each of the songs played, I want to remind you that this was a single concert, we had no tech people to do the settings behind the scene, and the sound engineer (me) was on stage, playing bass, so any problems with the sound had to be solved between the songs and coped with during the songs.
Taking into account these conditions, I do believe that the show was successfull and I am really proud of what we accomplished that evening.
And btw, for the comments in the line of "that drum line is not ok", "the guitar didn't play well", "the bass is not like the original" and so on: we do covers, but we do not intend to sing note for note the original songs, for various reasons: we are not that good, tehnically speaking, or we like to depart a little from the original, or simply we did a mistake and we "repaired" it on spot, trying to go on like nothing happend...
Thank you for your patience in reading this long explanation and enjoy the sounds! :)
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