I’ll take a little risk today and post this one. When I filmed this, the tour manager asked to see the video before posting. Well, we can’t find his contact info so I sent an email to Evan’s manager, John Kastner. No reply. Joe Burns- maybe you can tag Evan to see if he is cool with it. Anyway, this was such a great show. I sang along a couple of times, forgetting that I had mics right next to my face. I hope you can’t hear it. Everything went ok with the shoot, except for the off-center anchor cam and the soundboard did not work for some reason.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, HFG50 x2, Gopro Hero 7 Black x2. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 mics-church audio preamp-Sony A10 Some angles degrained in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat video Edit by Tromster
Here’s the last Dingbatz post from me. I didn’t realize their sordid history until after filming this show. Yikes. Anyway, fear gods. are a newish band featuring Jack Steeples from AOD and they are damned good. Forward to about 7:00 and 27:00 for my favorite tracks. Since Jack mentioned that AOD are doing “a bunch” of shows in 2023, I hope fear gods. can come along as the opener. That would be a bonus.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Should brought the GH5S with this lighting, damnit. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain Video edit by Tromster
Both AOD shows had great opening acts- both shows had Fear Gods, which is Jack Steeples’ new band.. and the Dingbatz’ show had the Accelerators opening. They put out a 7″ in 1984 and have released some albums on CDR over the past 10 years. Challenging lighting- same as the AOD set. Very red. At least it sounds good.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Should brought the GH5S with this lighting, damnit. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain Video edit by Tromster
If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for an AOD post. Last month, AOD got together for the first time in 8 years to celebrate the release of Dave Scott’s book “If it’s Tuesday this must be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin OD”, which is a hilarious chronicle of not only AOD but the early punk scene in NY/NJ. Dave put a lot of work into the book, pulling from his own surprisingly lucid memories along with a network of old friends’ accounts which makes it a much more detailed account of events than the usual oral history. I laughed out loud a lot while reading it. Available through DiWulf publishing. Enough of the sales pitch, on to the performance. I think that these 2 performances were better than the 2014 reunion, and some of that had to do with the preparation. Dave (and I assume the rest of the band) practiced for a couple of months ahead of the show and you could really tell. Unfortunately, the video suffers a bit from lighting challenges. The sound/light man was the highest person actually working a show that I had ever seen and it seems that he forgot to turn on the main stage lights until the last 5 min of the show. So we got red lights which caused my cameras to freak out a bit- I had to dial down the exposure on the G60 so Paul would not overexpose. Get a tan, wouldya?. We did our best. It sounds good- the 3 source mix sounds pretty nice.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Should brought the GH5S with this lighting, damnit. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain Video edit by Tromster
This one hurts. This was such a great show, and I put a lot of effort into bringing my good audio gear in to get a decent (DPA 4061 mics) quality audio recording to match up to this. I get home to listen to the audio and it is distorted. The battery in the preamp was low. Damnit, I have been having terrible luck with audio lately. If anyone has a line on audio, let me know. Nothing through the network of usual suspects or on DIME. Anyway, the audio on this is fairly clear but lacks punch/low end. I did my best filming, but there were a LOT of phones/hands/ etc in the air. So, if you are wondering why I am focusing on someone other than Hank Sherman when he is playing a lead, it’s because there was a hand, beer or phone in the way. Such is life. Nice seeing so many old and new friends. I’ll try to list everyone I saw/hung out with. PS: I have never seen so many happy middle aged dudes singing about satan, in my life.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment: Panasonic Lumiz ZS200 Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premeire elements
Happy Friday! It’s turning out to be a good day. Here’s the first night of the 2 day “tour” to promote the release of the great book “if it’s tuesday, this must be Walla Walla- the wacky history of Adrenalin O.D.” We held off on doing this one because of the audio- I don’t know what the deal was, but there is no guitar anywhere in the club or soundboard mix. It gets better about midway through when Keith Hartel hits the stage and Jack moves from bass to guitar. Also, I thought I found a good place for the drum gopro, and a cymbal cut the view of Dave’s head off. Some people might say that’s a good thing, but we left it out of the video edit. So, 4 camera with suspect audio. Best we could do.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Video Equipment used: Canon HF G60, HF G50, 2 gopro hero 7’s. Audio Equipment used: Sony PCM-M10 through soundboard, Rode Videomic Pro on the G50, DPA4061 and Church Audio Preamp into Sony PCM-A10 Matrix by Jim McLain Edit by Tromster I think I rebalanced this one in Izotope Rx8 in a deperate attempt to find guitar in the mix
I posted the Fear Gods. show from Dingbatz a couple months back and put this one in the FIFO queue because the audio was not good in the club that night- there was no guitar anywhere. Not in the board mix, Not in the 2 audience sources I had… but I was able to take Jim McLain’s 3 source matrix and pop it into Izotope and it found a little guitar to boost. Audio is actually good now! Man, I love this band. Great classic punk sound. They have a couple of songs that are total earworms that I end up singing along to for days after. One is early in the set, another is at 10:40. Check it out. They also have a 7″ and CD out.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60, Canon HFG50, 3x Gopro Hero 7 black. Audio Equipment: DPA4061 Mics, Church Audio Preamp, Sony A10; Sony M10 in soundboard; Rode Videomic Pro on the G50. Audio mix by Jim McLain, Guitar boost in Izotope rx8 Video edit by Tromster
Posting 11 days of videos- here is day 1: I traveled to New York/New Jersey last month to see 2 AOD shows. This band I had never heard of were opening, so I decided to save battery and memory card space and only film with 1 camera. Well, that was a mistake because these guys ripped and they featured Antidote vocalist and film producer/NYHC Chronicles host etc Drew Stone. Also featured my old friend from The Undead Tristan D’Graves. At least I was able to get the board mix (which had NO guitar all night) to rebalance to sound reasonably well.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment used: Canon HFG60 (video), Sony PCM-M10 through soundboard Rebalance in Izotope RX8 (cranked guitar and bass) Audio/Video synch in pluraleye 4.0
I was organizing the 1TB worth of footage that I shot from last weekend and this one angle turned out good enough to post right away. This is Jack Steeples from AOD’s new band which includes members of Ruth Ruth, Headwound, Blisters and more. Give them a listen- they are very good. I shot 5 angles (this is one of them) and recorded 3 high quality audio sources (this is not one of them), so a full edit is coming someday. Since I was orchestrating 7 different recording machines, it took me a couple minutes to adjust levels on this one. It gets better after about 3min.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy Equipment: Canon HF G60 and Stock Mic
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