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A Wilhelm Scream- Goldfield Trading Post, Sacramento Ca 9/18/24 Schoeps Audio Master

Tour Manager Doug Tuesday is being postponed to Thursday this week- so instead, you get something I recorded recently.
A Wilhelm Scream opened the Strung Out/Adolescents show last month. Through a series of really boring circumstances that I won’t go into, I did not have time to ask to video, so I recorded audio only. One thing about the sound that night- every band had drums and vocals high in the room mix with guitars barely audible in comparison. I have had to boost guitar with all 3 sets in izotope, which is rare/unheard of for audience recordings. Not bagging on the sound man, I know sound is a challenge there.. but how odd. Good set- what a stacked lineup with 3 touring bands, but it would have been nice to see a local opener on the bill.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: I didn’t save settings, but it was something like guitars and bass +5, vocals +2

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Soft Science- Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco CA 9/14/24 audio

Recorded by: thehappyone
Equipment used: Roland R-07, with built-ins.

Had the input gain set too high, so somewhat brickwalled, but I’ve tried to do what I can in post to make it more listenable.

Tracklist

Soft Science is from Sacramento, of the shoegaze/dream pop persuasion, and as there’s a link to their KEXP session and a partial effort from the SMA principal back in 2018 when in Seattle as he was late and missed much of their set in the archives, I thought having my recording included would be nice as well.

There’s a few more ROIO-type efforts online that can be added at some point.

LOSSLESS FLACs for nerds but also contains photos and a brief vid clip as well.

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Valerie June- The Sofia, Sacramento Ca 8/20/24 Master Schoeps Recording

It’s another late post. I hope that folks still pay attention to this one because it is a GREAT recording. Also, there was nothing from the Sofia on the archive. Kinda surprising.

Anyway, anonymous hit up the Valerie June show back in 2024 there. She is an amazing performer- I actually recorded one of her sets at Harlows for Anonymous since he was out of town. Didn’t sound this good though.

Recorded by: Anonymous
Recording Equipment used: MK4 pair -Nbob active cables- Babynbox – Sony A-10 (24/48)

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Divided Youth- Cafe Colonial, Sacramento Ca 6/29/24 Master Schoeps Audio Recording

It looks like we will be taking a different approach this week. It has been KALX/Doug/Eggplant/other for the weekday audio posts, but we have some special stuff planned for this week.
First off, here is one that I recorded with the Schoeps last month. I planned to do a 4 camera multicam of the band, but one gopro did not work out and the G9ii overheated and froze up. It looks like I lost the main angle footage. So, unless I can save that file, this is all the Divided Youth you’re gonna get from the show.
Btw, the band absolutely rips- they had the biggest pit I saw that night. I got hammered by the pit at about the 13:30 mark- you can hear the mics get hit and me go “bleah!” from the gut punch. I listened to it a few times and laughed.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder

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Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg- Goldfield, Roseville Ca 2/16/24 Schoeps CCM4 full show

This show was so much fun. Marky’s band was perfect- they were not trying to look exactly like the Ramones, but they pulled off their sound really well. A small nitpick would be about the guitar- should have been in your face… but I am sure that this would have compromised the live sound, so I am good with it. The vocalist was so Joey sounding, it was eerie.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4, Naiant tinybox, Sony A10 recorder

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Annihilation Time- 924 Gilman, Berkeley Ca 11/26/23 Schoeps Audience Audio Master

I have a ton of footage AND a multitrack soundboard to mix of this, but I figured that I would post this fast as I am still buzzing from this set. I like the band, but I had no idea that the band brought that much intensity to their live shows- it was unbelievable. It sounded great in the room, which is rare for Gilman- it is a tough room to make sound good. This recording is totally flat- no post processing. Vocals are a little light but I can fix that in the multitrack mixdown… hopefully. I think my gopro video angles were rendered unusable early in the set, when everyone went completely ape shit to the intensity they were seeing on stage. Most intense show of 2023 for sure for me.
Good on Gilman for making this a 4pm start- I was back home before 10pm!
One last thing- why are these guys categorized as a hardcore punk band? They are super fast NWOBHM riffs to my ears.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Somy A10 digital recorder

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Long Term Effects- Phono Select, Sacramento Ca 11/18/23 Schoeps Audience Master Modesto Band

This was the 2nd band on the bill, after The Moans played on Saturday. I was worried when one of the guitarists had a Meshuggah shirt and a Jackson metal looking guitar… but no metal here. Competently played alternative rock. I can’t remember a local band coming out of Modesto and playing up here… except for maybe Grandaddy early on.
They have a CD for sale at Phono Select if you like what you hear.
Danny’s F cancer series is such fun annual event. It raised over $3400 this year for American Cancer Society. Well done!

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4/Tinybox/Sony A10

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SpiritWorld- Goldfield Trading Post, Roseville Ca 10/1/23 Schoeps Audio Master

Another “morning after the show” post. What a crazy night. People were climbing the poles in the club and jumping off into the crowd during Comeback Kid! Completely insane.
This is the opening band, SpiritWorld. I was going to make a comment about a hardcore band wearing nudie suits (google it), but then I started looking deeper into the band and I realized that I BLEW IT by not video’ing them. The band’s vocalist is Stu Folsom, who was in a great LVHC band called… Folsom! They put a CD out a long time ago on Mikey Hood’s West Coast Worldwide label. So THAT’s why Mikey was hanging out with him after the set. Derp.
Then I read an interview with him, and he has roots in hardcore but he is a big alt.country fan, and one of his favorite bands is The Old 97’s. A man with good taste- if he finds this website/channel, he can be endlessly entertained with all of the Old 97s/Uncle Tupelo/Slobberbone on here. Double Derp.
Then he asked me if I video’d after the set. Nope. Triple Derp.
But, hardcore played by guys in nudie suits. I have now seen it all.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder
Photo by Wayne Triggs

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Son Volt- Harlow’s, Sacramento Ca. 9/21/23 Schoeps Audience Master full Trace album

I am not usually speedy in posting recent shows- I am still working on video from March of this year… but this show was so good and this is one of the best sounding recordings that these new (to me) schoeps mics have produced.
My good friend Anonymous also recorded the show and was in a better spot for recording, so there is probably an even better recording- I had a busy night so I slid in about 10 minutes before Son Volt started.
The Doug Sahm songs were excellent – I bought the album but have not had a chance to listen to it, but Mark Spencer’s Augie Myers parts were spot-on. Nice!
Unexpected highlight for me was “Too Early”. Man, it had been a LONG time since I heard that song and I forgot how much I loved it.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder

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Rose Melberg- Phono Select, Sacramento Ca 9/8/23 Schoeps Audience Master Audio Tiger Trap Softies

I was very excited to see this show- I have been a huge AGSFB fan for over 10 years, and adding Rose to the show was a big bonus…. unfortunately, some things didn’t work out too well with the taping thing.
First one was this set. I rarely have enough time to be 100% prepared for a show. It takes a lot of time charging battery packs and prepping memory cards for 4-6 cameras, plus prepping the audio gear. I thought I had it all dialed in.. right before I left, I checked the audio recorder and it showed 8:12- 8 hours and 12 min! Plenty of memory for the show. Well, that was actually 8 minutes and 12 seconds left on the recorder.
After (so I thought) recording the opener, I checked my recorder and it shut off. This was minutes before Rose was going to start, then I realized that the recorder’s memory was full. So I panic and start deleting files as fast as I can (including the opener! D’oh!). As a result, I missed the first 10min of the set or so. Ugh, I hate taping chaos.
Also, the PA did not seem to be working on the left side, which is where I should have been getting most of my vocals.. so although the recording sounds nice, the vocals are oddly distant.
Oh well, there are days like these. I don’t even know if I am going to post the AGSFB set- I need to figure out how to make it listenable.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder

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