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Elektricheskie Partizany, Brigadny Podryad, F.P.G.

On Saturday we went to an Est Est Est concert at the Kitaysky Lyotchik Jao Da club. I recorded the whole concert on a Zoom, putting it on the sound engineer’s table at the last moment. It turned out better than what we could hear ourselves. Several new songs. I want to try recording bootlegs at concerts. A first attempt.

Tracklist:

1. Reflection
2. Pasta
3. Olympiad
4. Winter
5. Lisbon
6. Palette
7. Painter Duck
8. Résumé
9. Spring
10. Autumn
11. Fantastika (without trumpet)
12. Squirrel Island
13. Parfyonovtsy
14. Victory Day
15. Udelochnaya
16. Fantastika (with trumpet)

Download (mp3, 320 kbps, 206 MB)

I am not going to record sound near the stage anymore. Especially when there are live drums. I tweaked it as best I could, but I still do not like how the sound turned out.

An insanely awesome concert, tons of positive energy, a very cool musician :)

Rock and roll from Deep Purple's vocalist (more precisely, he was the singing bassist). The last song has audio from the built-in Canon 60D microphone with the recording level limited. It does sound rough, though, because I was filming at stage level from the side — there you get hammered by the drums from the kit itself rather than from the speakers, and everything else comes from the monitors and amps.

That was a great concert. At the time it seemed to me to be one of the best ever held at Aurora.

My Rode Stereo VideoMic couldn’t handle loud gigs and was clipping the sound. On Tuesday I became the proud owner of a great little device, the Zoom H4N.

I won’t bother describing what’s great about it — that’s all over the internet. I’ll just say the recording quality is excellent. And, most importantly, it copes brilliantly with concerts. To put it through its paces I went straight to a show at Orlandina, where the German band WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER were playing yesterday. They play heavy stuff, so the recorder was thrown straight into the deep end of a loud, heavy gig.

In the recorder’s settings there’s a COMP/LIMITER option — as I understand it, that’s a set of presets for recording. I shot a video at the show with audio from the recorder. It’s in two parts. The first I recorded with the LIMIT2 (CONCERT) preset and a manual recording level (level 8 out of 100). I’m not too happy with how that came out. The second part used the LIMIT3 (STUDIO) preset — even at home it makes the sound cleaner and more pleasant. I left the recording level on AUTO. I like the result much better.

Either way, the way the audio came out at a gig like that is a strong sign that the device records very respectably. I think I’ll stick with it.

From the start of the video up to 9:43 it’s LIMIT2 (CONCERT) and recording level 8; from 9:43 to the end it’s LIMIT3 (STUDIO) with auto recording level. Result: