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Set 1: Water in the Sky, Light Up Or Leave Me Alone[1] > Suzy Greenberg, Corrina, Limb By Limb, Che Hun Ta Mo[2], Big Alligator[2], Possum, Farmhouse, Ghost, Ya Mar, Character Zero
Set 2: Wilson, The Curtain > Tweezer -> Taste, Meat, Golgi Apparatus, Wolfman's Brother, Gotta Jibboo, Harry Hood, Good Times Bad Times
Set 3: Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, Run Like an Antelope, The Sloth, When the Circus Comes, Mike's Song[3] > Simple -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove[4]
Encore: Boogie On Reggae Woman > Tweezer Reprise
[1] Jibboo teases from Mike.
[2] Phish debut; John McEuen on mandolin, Raiford Starke on guitar, and Seminole Indian Chief Jim Billie on guitar and lead vocals.
[3] Immigrant Song tease.
[4] Light Up tease and Auld Lang Syne tease at midnight.
Notes: This was the first show of the Big Cypress festival. Light Up was played for the first time since August 13, 1988 (1,138 shows); Corrina was subsequently played for the first time since February 18, 1989 (1,095 shows).
*EDITED on 4/19/10 2:45pm EST* - I may be remastering a newly available FOB mkv4 source for this show in the near future. While I love the way two thirds of this source sounds, the patches, taper level adjustments, etc are a bit inconsistent.
AAC - 268 MB
mp3 - 485 MB
FLAC pt. 1 - 856 MB
FLAC pt.2 - 860 MB
(EDIT - as of approx 3:45pm EST on 1/31 the FLAC tags have been fixed so that they say the album title instead of "Unknown Album")
Well folks, I've finally gone back and remastered 12.30 so that we now have a complete account of the festivities in greater clarity. All tracks are ID-tagged and include album art and source comments embedded in the files. As usual, I've also included the original text file containing the source notes. Take note of a couple minor patches that were done to Ya Mar and Character Zero, which is explained in detail in the text file and on the etree db page.
This is a FOB Schoeps mk4v recording (etree shnid 35050). Among the auds that circulate of this show, this source is considered by many (including the Phish Companion) to be the suggested one to get.
It's worth noting the oddity of how the Nuemann u89i pulls from each night sound totally different. According to the notes on the db.etree page it appears to be an identical rig (taper uncredited), with the only difference being that the taper used a 7' split for 12.30 and a 12' split for 12.31. At any rate, while the severe left-sided bias of the 12.31 u89i pull was the only thing keeping it from being perfect in its native form, I only find the u89i pull of 12.30 to be just OK. Nice volume and stereo balance, but just sounds a little too muddy for my liking. I tried tooling around with it but it just didn't come close to the mk4v's.
The first thing I noticed with the mk4v's was an overabundance of BASS. It's great to hear a festival pull with a thick low end, but this was too much in this man's humble opinion. It was also lacking in the high end. So I dropped the EQ levels quite a bit on the low end and spiked the high end. The mids already sounded just about right, but I dropped the the very middle 1k frequency down a couple db's, as I find that can sometimes give a more "open", ambient sound to a recording that might otherwise come off a bit nasal-y or flat. I also boosted the preamp a bit, as the original transfer levels were a bit low and I wanted it to be on par volume-wise with my remaster of 12.31. I've done some back-and-forth between the two remasters and while they each have their own unique sonic character, you now can enjoy a very consistent and energetic listen of the whole event.
I realized after the fact that I forgot to include a bitmap image of the EQ settings I used in the show folder (as I said I would do from now on...D'oh!), so here it is in case you're curious:
Please note the following technical observations - there is some periodic distortion with Fishman's kick drum during the latter part of the first set. I imagine this was due to the recording levels being a bit hot, because starting w/ set II the distortion is gone as far as I can tell. I thought at first that lowering the EQ levels on the left would rectify the issue, but it was still present even after dropping the low end of the EQ to its weakest point. Bottom line, I could find no way to fix that. It shouldn't be too much of a hindrance though...you might not even notice it. I could hear it the most toward the end of the raging Ghost jam, where Fish is really pounding away on that kick. You may be thinking that my boosting the preamp may be the cause (or may be exacerbating) the distortion, but I can assure you I tried lowering the preamp way down and that still didn't affect the issue at all. Anyhoo.
ALSO - it seems the taper may have been tweaking a few things during the first half of the first set. The levels start out a bit low for the first couple songs, and toward the end of Water In The Sky, the stereo balance is way to the right channel, but then for the next few tunes it's pretty far to the left. I thought about rebalancing the L and R channels but the problems is that it shifts from side to side in the middle of a couple tracks. While it's probably possible to add stereo effects to select parts of a track and not others, that would have been a pretty big task. I'm hoping it won't bother peeps too much. It stays relatively constant and more centered starting with Limb By Limb. Point being, the first chunk of set I is not representative of how the rest of the show sounds, so keep your panties on. As mentioned earlier, there are a couple segments during Ya Mar and Character Zero where a lesser quality source was patched in.
Feel free to leave feedback by clicking on the "comments" link. Enjoy!
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