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Pat Travers Band- Boardwalk, Orangevale Ca 10/17/24 4K UHD Multicam w/ Matrix and Schoeps audio

I know that today’s post is a bit of a departure from the typical metal and punk posts every day… but my long time friend (from high school!) Loren Scott put out a call for someone to video the show, so I obliged. I am glad I did- this show was spectacular! The way that Pat and bass player David Pastorius (Jaco’s nephew) jam together, it’s like they share a brain. It’s amazing to watch. David is a bass master.
It took us a while to get this posted because we had one hell of a hard time with the audio. The soundboard was mastered at 96khz and ever after I dithered it down to 48, it would NOT synch with any of the other sources. Pluraleyes couldn’t do it and I couldn’t do it manually. I was able to get the first 35min of the show aligned and the rest is schoeps audio. I spent the good part of TWO DAYS trying to get this to work. Ugh. It still sounds good throughout. You can hear the sources fall out of synch at about the 35 minute mark, right before we cut over to schoeps-only audio.
Fun fact- I had no classic rock shirts to wear to the show, so I pulled out my Roky Erickson shirt and still stood out. lol.
Oh, one more fun fact. I had a +1 so I asked Wayne Triggs if he wanted to go. He didn’t know what he was getting into. I started to get set up for Travers and I realized I left my gopros at home! Thank goodness this show was at the Boardwalk (5min away) or I would have been toast. Thanks to Wayne for the help- he scrambled and drove me there and back.

Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix G9ii w/Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F/2.8-4 ASPH lens; 3x gopro hero 7 black
Audio from Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder plus soundboard for 1st 35min
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Iron Maiden- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 4K UHD Complete Show Schoeps Audio

Alright, I need to tell you up front that this video is not great. After Priest’s set ended, there was just an endless sea of people at the main stage for Maiden. We did the best we could and weaved our way through people to get to the center structure where the mixing board is. Standing on that barrier base gives me about 2 or 3 inches (keep your jokes to yourselves) and I can lean on the barrier to stabilize myself… but I was WAY back there and there were a TON of hands and phones in the air. So, this generally sucks but it sounds good. Sorry, I did my best.
General consensus among the aftershock fb group and my fb friends was that this set was self-indulgent and boring. I understand that they were on “The Future Past” world tour, which “includes fan favorites as well as songs from Iron Maiden’s 2021 album Senjutsu and 1986’s Somewhere in Time.” Save those specialty sets for your hardcore fans- people who bought a ticket to see Iron Maiden at a headlining set featuring only Iron Maiden. If you are playing a fest, pull out a greatest hits set and make the people happy. Oh well, I am not in charge of Iron Maiden Inc., they can do whatever they want to their brand.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Video degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat video
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes

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Judas Priest- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 full complete show Schoeps Audio

Although Till and Body count had the best sets (IMHO) at Aftershock, this one was by far the most enjoyable. Judas Priest holds a special place for me, as British Steel was the first heavy metal album I bought in 1980- from the Columbia House record club. I remember putting it on for the first time. I’ve seen priest twice before- once in 1988 (thanks to Slayer for the passes to that one) and in 2018(?) on that Deep Purple co headline thing.
I saw some folks on the aftershock facebook group complaining about Rob’s vocals. He is a power vocalist who is 73 years old- he’s not gonna sound like he did on Unleashed in the East. If you take that mindset going in, you can enjoy the show.
What made it so great for me was the choice of setlist. It was the perfect “greatest hits” set, plus I finally got to see Rapid Fire- one of my all time favorite priest songs- performed live. In fact, we were supposed to cut out toward the end to get to the main stage for Iron Maiden, and I told my friend Matt that I was staying- it was too good.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Video degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat video
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes (EXCEPT pt2 which was done manually in Sony Vegas 15)

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Body Count- Aftershock Festival, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 Complete 4K Schoeps Audio ICE-T

Welp, it looks like the Till Lindemann video from yesterday was removed from Youtube due to nudity. I don’t agree with the decision, but what are you gonna do? It’s not like can talk to anyone at YT HQ. Sorry everyone. I spent a week on that one for it to be available for less than a day.
Let’s post 2 videos today to make up for it. Here is probably the best video I have from aftershock- performance, quality, camerawork-wise. Right before they started the set, I told my friend Matt that I was moving over to avoid the pit and right after I said it, you can see the pit erupt. That is how the video starts. I get over to a safe area to video about a minute in, and the audio and video quality improve about 5min in. Such a great set!

…and the hits keep on coming! Body Count does a new song that YT has blocked the audio portion, so I had to choose between editing out the audio and video, or replacing the audio. The pit was raging and I did not want to lose the video, so I found some awesome music from youtube’s library to use. Hope you like it. Concert audio ends at about 13:00 and resumes at about 17:00.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio EQ in Sony Sound Forge
Video degrain in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat video
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes

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High Vis- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 4K Complete Show Schoeps Audio

I made sure to leave early enough to catch this set on Saturday. A bunch of friends told me that this is the band to see, and they weren’t wrong. It was pretty comical- when their set started, there was nobody at the stage- maybe 50 people along the front row of this huge stage. I took a picture of the sparse crowd and made a smart ass comment about aftershock attendees having great taste… and Danny Wimmer himself asked me what the hell I was talking about. I guess it’s not a good joke if you need to explain it.
Anyway, more people did show up and this video turned out fantastic- the audio is stellar and the only flaw was me turning the camera off by accident while trying to focus at about 55 seconds in.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio EQ in Sony Sound Forge- drop bass, boost mids and highs
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4

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Clutch- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 4k complete Schoeps Audio Stoner Rock

Today is my good friend Brian McKenna’s 55th birthday, and he is a big Clutch fan. Happy Birthday Brian! I have known him for 35 years- where does the time go?

Clutch are a pretty jammy band, so you get some sets where they are on, and some where they are mere mortals. In my (humble) opinion, they were “on” at this show, big time. I literally fell asleep during the only other time I saw them (Psycho fest 2019). The bass mix was super heavy here so I had to boost the guitars in izotope to make them audible. I think the fat mix helps a band like this a lot- you can feel the groove. I enjoyed the set quite a bit. We had to bail during the end of the last song to make it to Anthrax in time.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Guitar +5
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4

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Anthrax- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/12/24 4K Master w/Schoeps Audio Thrash Metal

I only did Thursday and Saturday at Aftershock this year and it makes me wonder how I ever did all 4 days. Man, I am TIRED.
My cousin Tony came by with his truck this morning to help me out so I decided to post this one today for him- Anthrax is one of his favorite bands. I am still puzzled as to why Anthrax, one of the “big 4” of Thrash, is playing a 45 minute set at 4:15 in the afternoon. Slayer headlined Thursday… and Anthrax headlined (or was 2nd billed) on Thursday in 2021. They even got the shaft on stage configuration- they were playing right into the sun. Brutal. They were still great and it clearly didn’t seem to bother them.
This is the only set that I used the ZS70 for- it is an inferior camera to the ZS200, but it has a way better zoom and with the stage being so bright, I figured it was the right choice and I was right about that. The sound in the spot that I initially set up in was awful- not only was it overly bassy/muddy but I heard a lot of high end swirl as well. keep in mind that this audio is AFTER I eq’d a lot of the bass out of the low end. I moved to a better sounding spot about 20min in and it sounds a lot better from then on.
8 song greatest hits set. Everyone I talked to about it loved them.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix ZS70 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4

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Till Lindemann- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/10/24 Full 4K Schoeps Audio Rammstein

I have been trying to prep this show for a week- I can’t recall ever having so many issues in trying to get one of these ready. Finally done!

Here is the TL;DR version of notes: This show sounds amazing, I missed the first minute or so of video, so you get a still photo to accompany the audio track for that. Also, this is 18+ for obvious reasons if you watch it, so be sure that you are all age verified and logged in to watch this one!

Long version: What a show! I heard that this was one of Till’s first solo shows in the USA so I checked out some songs he was playing beforehand. Uh, er, wow. Songs about loving morbidly obese partners? check. Another about glden shwers? Holy crap, this dude is a walking fetish factory. So, imagine all of that in a multimedia spectacular, with extremely NSFW videos playing in the background.. and there you have it.
My good friend Tromster asked me- why did you choose to go see that? Well, none of the other bands at that time were too interesting to me, I enjoyed the song preview, and I figured I would be entertained.. and boy was I!
The first half of the video is not great. Lots of people were walking in front of me, making the focus go nuts… but after a bunch of people left (and a lot of people left- basically anyone with kids), I was able to move up into the spot where I filmed Slayer from. It’s good from there on out.
I need to reiterate- NSFW. Not safe for work. Not safe for kids. Not safe for prudes.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Guitar
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4 EXCEPT for the first 10min or so, which I had to do manually in Sony Vegas 15.

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Ho99o9 (Horror)- Aftershock Fest, Discovery Park, Sacramento 10/10/24 4K Video w/ Schoeps Audio

Man, we lost Paul Di’Anno today. I knew he wasn’t in good health, but it’s still shocking to lose him so suddenly. I never got to see him perform, which is a huge bummer. Those first 2 maiden albums were life changing.
The video I have been trying to upload failed to process overnight, so I was going to restart the long process from scratch, thinking it was my issue.. and then another video bonked out. I think youtube might be having some issues.
So here is a different one from Aftershock. On my way back from the Biohazard stage in BFE, I came across Ho99o9 playing the soundwave or shockwave stage (WHY did they name them so similarly and then not label the stage? Cruel joke guys). Odd band- 2 rap vocalists and a drummer who do rap and metal/punk songs. I filmed a little less than half the set and had to get over to Till Lindemann.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4

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Biohazard-Aftershock Fest Discovery Park Sacramento 10/10/24 4K Full Set schoeps audio hardcore NYHC

Sorry to say that this was one of 2 big disappointments at Aftershock this year. I had to make a tough decision between Ministry and Biohazard and chose this one. We get to the stage about 3 minutes before they were scheduled to start- just in time!
A quick word for folks who may not be familiar with the logistics of these big festivals. Bands ALWAYS start at the scheduled times- there are city curfews in play and bands/promoters get huge fines if they go over at all. Every set throughout the day starts at the exact time listed. Slayer’s set started 3 minutes early to account for the intro video- that’s how exact it is.
So, when we saw people scrambling around with mics and sound at 4:25 (10 minutes after the scheduled start time), I knew this wasn’t gonna be great. The audio is terrible when the set starts, then gets better as it goes on.
26 minute set. When you start late at these fests, you don’t get to play your full set and end late. You get the hook. Bummer.

Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Canon ZS200 and Schoeps CCM4 mics, Naiant Tinybox preamp, Sony A10 digital recorder.
Audio rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Guitar +5
Audio/Video synch via Pluraleyes 4

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