Marc Ford

01/27/02

Malibu Inn - Malibu, CA

 

Lineup:

Marc Ford - guitar/vocals

Chris Robinson - vocals/harmonica

Audley Freed - guitar

Jen Gunderman - keyboards

Berry Oakley Jr. - bass

Aaron Sperske - drums

 

Marc & Chris only:

1. crowd noise & warmup

2. Red Balloon

3. He's A Friend Of Mine

w/ the entire band:

4. I Used To Be A King

5. Stealin'

6. Dark End Of The Street

7. The Man In Me

8. Sing Me Back Home

9. Old Blue (w/ Chris on guitar)

10. Long Black Veil

11. I Don't Know

12. The Dolphins

Encore:

13. crowd noise & warm-up

14. Got Love?

15. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad

 

Recorded by Mike Boden(bodenzord@earthlink.net):

Neumann KM140's(x-y pattern) > Lunatec V2 > Apogee PSX-100 > Tascam DA-P1(48kHz)

 

Mastering setup:

Tascam DA-P1 > Waves L2 (used for D/A conversion only) > Manley ELOP > Sontec 250C > Manley Massive-Passive > Manley Variable-MU > Apogee PSX-100 > PC w/ Celeron II 600 MHz(overclocked to 900MHz) > recorded into Samplitude 2496 V5.55.0.0 > tracked in Samplitude > burned from Samplitude to Yamaha 8x4x24x SCSI CDRW

 

Compressed to SHN's with mkwACT v1.0.0.1

 

Notes:

There is some break up in the audio roughly 30 seconds into the 1st song. This exists on the master DAT tape and is most likely a problem with Marc's guitar cable.

 

Also note that Chris' vocals were extremely loud at the show, +10dB in relationship to all the other musicians. So...I did my best to contain his vocals without destroying them by using the Manley ELOP. But I'm right on the edge and didn't want to push it any further. You'll also notice that the overall mix sounds better for some songs versus others. That's the nature of the beast. I'm not mixing this show live or in post, so I try to pick the best overall settings that simply average out across all songs. I certainly have my favorite songs that I think sound pretty good, but there are others that still bug the hell out of me.

 

Last, Chris' vocals do break up ever-so-slightly on the peaks. This exists on the master DAT tape, and I think it was caused by a slight clipping of his preamp or perhaps the compressor that FOH was using. However, to get the best sound out of the mix, my EQ settings do tend to accentuate it at times.