This is the gig audio from Afton Village from 6/23/2012. This was the first gig played with a sound man. There are several charts for which the sound is very good and others not so much. The recording levels were pretty low (input ranged only from .6 to -.6 out of 1.0 to -1.0 range) but the audio shows signs for “clipping” in spite of this. You’ll hear this in a “fuzz” sound on some charts. Somewhere a limit was being hit prior to the output to the recorder which we’ll try to identify and prevent for next time. You can download any of these file from the File Download page. Just expand the directory structure under the “Gig Media” portion of the tree and download the files there.
There are some times where the mix is heavy on some instruments. This happens because the first priority is the sound the audience hears and getting the recording mix right is a very low secondary concern. For a first time with our gear, at a live performance, the sound man, Rick, did a fantastic job and got some really good tracks. At times there’s nothing a sound man can do when we’re not playing well, but at least he got us sounding like us and we can use these charts to learn from. The clarity he got on some charts (the one’s not clipping) is the best we have of us.