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Sacramento Music Archive WEEKLY GIVEAWAY DRAWING #7 12/2/25

This week’s winner is Chris Charla! If you look closely, you might wonder how in the hell Chris got a ton of entries… well, Chris donated through his employer(via the Benevity platform) who DOUBLED THE AMOUNT- matched donations 1:1!
Plus, I didn’t know that I could run reports in Benevity and see who donated- just discovered that this week and Chris donated over a month ago. So this was Chris, plus his employer, plus me applying a catch-up calc since there are only TWO MORE DRAWINGS for now! Stuffing the ballot box is allowed!!! Donate at the link below.

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Sacramento Music Archive WEEKLY GIVEAWAY DRAWING #4 11/10/25

Here is the weekly drawing for WEEK 4. The winner is Arica Pelino! Arica is the authoritative source for early Green Day videos. Well, her and Rodney Parker, but Rodney never kissed Billie Joe so you be the judge. Congrats Arica, check your mailbox for a vintage 924 Gilman flyer!

ANY donation to Sac Music Archive enters you into the weekly drawing. Link in comments

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Miki Berenyi- Great American Music Hall, San Francisco Ca 10/27/25 4K UHD w/Schoeps Audio Lush Indie

Let’s do the Patreon Voter’s Choice first today! I just remembered that I haven’t started the ballot for this week- yikes! Get in on it ASAP if you want to vote on something cool this week. This week’s theme- Off List Audio.

Miki Berenyi came to SF last week for the last time and played a bunch from her MB3 releases and SIX lush “covers”! I was able to make my schoeps recording sound decent- it was very bassy and muddy. I EQ’d out some of the lows, boosted the mids, and then ran it through Izotope to bring up vocals as much as possible without it sounding bad.

There are quite a few people in the way of the shot, especially later in the show. I knew that GAMH were sticklers about monopods on the floor, so I brought this little selfie stick and popped it in my shirt pocket. I needed some support since the left hand isn’t all the way healed yet. It wasn’t as high as my usual monopod and it kinda worked… and then some tall dudes get in the way toward the end of the set and I didn’t want to move and ruin the audio sweet spot. So there ya go. This is what happens when you compromise audio and video. It’s not terrible.

Thanks to my friend (and Sac Muisc Archive board member) Jim Utz for the help with the camera pass. This probably wouldn’t exist without him!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens; Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder

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Week 2 Sacramento Music Archive Supporter raffle results! 10/27/25

This week’s winner is #598- Carmela Thompson! You might know Carmela from her bass expertise in many San Francisco bands, including the newly reunited Short Dogs Grow. They even released new songs (on vinyl) a couple months back. Thanks for supporting, Carmela! Check your mailbox- you will be receiving a Vintage flyer from 924 Gilman!

ANY supporter to the Sacramento Music Archive (Patreon or One Time Donation) gets entries into weekly drawing for cool stuff. 1 entry per dollar given. One-time donations get into the drawing for 1 month following their donation date.

Sorry for the odd blur- I forgot to hide some personally identifiable info so I had to obscure that part.

Stay tuned for more prize announcements, as soon as I get time.

Thanks everyone

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The FIRST Sacramento Music Archive Supporter raffle results!

OK everyone, let’s make this fun. I plan to do these drawing as “live” as I possibly can.
As you can see, this week’s drawing winner is Joshua Dunman! Congratulations! Joshua will receive a 924 Gilman flyer mailed to his front door.
As an extra bonus, The FIRST paying supporter who wants to go to Rhett Miller and Murry Hammond tonight at the Cafe Du Nord in SF can message me RIGHT. NOW. FREE TICKET! First come first served!!

For those of you folks who are confused about what the heck this is, I am running promotions for the Sacramento Music Archive nonprofit. Sign up to donate through Patreon or Paypal, and you are entered into weekly drawings of COOL stuff. Seriously. Really cool stuff. See yesterday’s facebook posts for more details.

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Bruce Dickinson- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park Sacramento Ca 10/3/25 4K UHD Master w/Schoeps Audio

Here’s video #2 for the day, and it is the Patreon Voter’s Choice! Thanks voters- new ballots get sent late tomorrow and it’s only $10/mo to play. New polls every week! I am so backlogged that I think I will put up about 10 recently filmed shows and let you pick.

Alright, I need to warn you about this one. My good friend Jeff was giving me those Shaq Beatbox punches since they were FREE and I got pretty hammered.

The good news is that I found a pole in the edge of the VIP section that face the shockwave stage, so I popped it up there and that kept is steady. The bad news is that there was an “influencer” who kept sticking her camera right in front of mine. It isn’t too obvious for most of the show, but it irritated the hell out of me.

The schoeps audio sounds better than I expected since I was so far away from the stage and off to the side. So far off in fact, that the audio and video is out of synch a bit. I was so far away that the sound had to travel to me. LOL Big shows.

Nice keytar btw

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4, Naiant tinybox, Sony A10 recorder
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10, then rebalance in Izotope Rx8 (Guitar +5)
Audio/Video synch in Pluraleyes 4, stitching in avidemux

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