Monday, March 7, 2011

Pendragon - 2008-10-04 - Zoetermeer


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Dr. Forrester said...

Artist: Pendragon
Title: suger Lake City
Date: 04 october 2008
Type: Audience
Tour: 30th Anniversary Tour
Location: Zoetermeer, De Boerderij, Netherlands
Rating: A (rated by taper)
Catalog: MVD-042

Lineage: Church ST-11 Cards - Church pre-amp STC-9000 (high pass filter on) -
iRiver H340 (44.1 kHz) - HDD - FLAC

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Disc 1
01 Intro
02 Walls of Babylon
03 -welcome Sugar Lake City
04 Circus
05 -outdoor sports
06 A Man of Nomadic Traits
07 -introduction
08 The Wishing Well
09 -introduction
10 Eraserhead
11 Stargazing
12 Learning Curve

TIME 65:27:47

Disc 2
01 Breaking the Spell
02 The Shadow
03 The Freak Show
04 -heavy metal Scott
05 The Voyager
06 -introduction
07 It's Only Me

-- encores
08 Masters of Illusion
09 -thank you for 30 years
10 2AM
11 Paintbox

TIME 70:28:33

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TECHNICAL NOTES
Recorded live at De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Date: 04 october 2008.
Recorded on iRiver H340 using Rockbox, r18339 build 080824.
Recording format: 44.1 Khz WAV
Microphone: Church ST-11 Cards with STC-9000 preamp, high pass filter on
Location: right of center, standing, 7 meters from the stage
Sound enhancement with Soundforge 7.0 / Adobe 2.0
Sound editing with CD Wave editor
Flacs created with FLAC frontend 1.7.1 (level 7)

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THE BAND
Nick Barrett - vocals, guitars
Peter Gee - bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Clive Nolan - keyboards, backing vocals
Scott Higham - drums - backing vocals

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PREPARING THE RECORDING
The recording itself sounded very well. Not much was done.
At checking the levels I incidently hit the stop button, so I missed a few seconds of
'Breaking the Spell' at the intro. I glued it together again. Nothing further was missed.
I added some 'air' by tweaking the high frequencies a bit. I also corrected the volume levels
where needed and boosted them a bit. After the correction, tracks were split at sector boundaries.
Flacs are tagged for convenient playback on compatible systems.

ABOUT THE CONCERT
It was the second gig of the 30th anniversary tour. The band sounds good. Some minor mistakes
happened, but it's still live! Half of the new album Pure was played. Those tracks came out well.
The Boerderij was sold out (750 souls present) and the atmosphere was great. There was nice
interaction with the audience. The showers were already heating up... as Nick Barret said. But the
cheering led the band to do a third encore, making it a 2,5 hour gig.

The quality is A to my ears. Sound is good and clear. A bit full of bass in places, but not too much.
You hear sometimes people reacting, talking, clapping and cheering during the rocky parts of
the show. The atmosphere is great though; captured the way it was. The mix was good and not too
loud (the overall sound wasn't louder than 105 dB). All instruments and vocals are distinct in
in the mix. So an A rating seems fair to me ;)

ARTWORK
Artwork is included in the Torrent release. I took the photos myself.


Prepared by symfan.

october, 2008

March 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...

Thanks for the Pendragon. Some great neo-prog. Nice live set in pretty clean sound.

March 7, 2011 at 7:18 PM

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