The Tubes, live at the Haight Ashbury Street Fair, June 10, 2012
recorded with out of print old school mics that can handle the 120db+ just 20 feet away from the stage–they don’t make em anymore! Recorded digitally in dvd quality at 24 bit/96 khz, direct to mp3 at 320+ kb/s, about 87 minutes
updated June 17, 2012. Finally a pretty good EQ. Apparently most of the previous EQ had some phase shift at some frequencies which makes it sound funny. This new one is pure parametric EQ and no phase shift. All of the previous attempts are at the bottom of this post for comparison
the.tubes.6.10.2012.haight.street.fair.mp3
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/67526679/file.html
The Tubes are one of the best San Francisco bands, and since they don’t play SF much more than every 10 years, it’s important to try and get it right
the original recording to compare the difference. This was recorded purposely with bass rolloff to avoid overloading inputs. The crowd was also packed with people shoving their way through, so it gets jostled a bit
The 35th annual Haight Ashbury Street Fair
The Tubes own photos on Flickr
The Tubes at Sausalito Art Fest 2010
The Tubes at the Haight street fair 2002
nobody sneers like Fee Waybill
note, these are the original attempts at correction for comparison. Apparently much of the EQ had some phase shift. A much better EQ is now at the top of this post)
updated June 11, 2012, new EQ and upload. Low and high frequencies recovered. The original recording was bell curved to avoid overload, and this new upload sounds much better, possibly the best audience recording yet. The Tubes played Jim Hendrix – Third Stone From the Sun at the very end
Update June 13, 2012, a third EQ, more smooth bass transition and slight compression off the top, as Fee waybills voice was mixed very loud
update June 14, 2012. new upload. I worked 8 hours on this one from the original 96khz 24 bit WAV and ran it through a 16 point spectrum filter, no compression, center correction, it is now centered in the middle, plus DC offset correction. I think this is the best one yet and closest to the way it sounded at the show
the.tubes.hsf.6.10.12c.mp3
part of the problem with this recording is it was way more crowded than the Chuck Prophet show before it, jam packed tight with people shoving their way through the crowd, so the recording was jostled a bit. That’s why it has some frequency drift. Only way to correct that is run it through some really serious processing with separate frequencies independantly and then joined again