After the long weekend, I got caught without a post ready from Jason Ross’ videotapes, so I pulled this one that I transferred to DVD back when I didn’t know what the hell I was doing, haha. If you guys are all “omg, Black Kronstadt! Can you do a better transfer?”, I just might. A lossless transfer, lighting adjustments, denoise, and volume boost would help, for sure.
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S9xxx VCR and Canopus ADVC300
Here is a really cool one for today, again from some of the stuff that I digitized for the Turn it Around doc. This was a poorly lit basement show, and the original tape was super dark… but since Jason Ross had the awesome old-school giant GE VHS camcorder, the recording was clean enough for me to boost the hell out of brightness and exposure to make it watchable. Thanks Jason!
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Equipment used: GE Full Size VHS Camcorder
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
Adobe Premiere and Neat Video used for brightness/exposure boost and denoise
I was planning to post a different On This Day in History, but the Kevn Kinney/Peter Buck DAT Sbd that I was going to do sounded terrible!
Then the day got busy and I almost didn’t get this done. This one comes from Jason Ross’ VHS collection- it was one of his tapes that I digitized and sent back to him. Now that I have better transfer gear, it might be good time for a re-do.
Anyway, this is right off Jason’s master tape. Looks good, sounds good. Not much good Killdozer out there.
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Probably the JVC HRS9911U and Canopus ADVC300
For today’s On This Date in history, I decided to pull this one out. I feel bad because after I worked this up, I realized that I teased posting a Robbie Fulks show from The Palms on this date (we have a series of Sac Music Archive songs airing on KDRT where that was done), and I Robbie Aki was ok with releasing the beer lords video that I filmed in on this date 1988. D’oh! Sorry.
This one comes once again from Jason Ross’ collection. I could have sworn I already posted this but no- only the board tape from this show. Maybe someday we can put it all together. Barry ward has about 15min of this show on his channel, but this is the more complete 50min set, and probably all that exists.
Recorded by: Anthony Van Duren(sp?)
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS series VCR w/TBC on, Canopus ADVC30 digitizing box.
I’ve been on a bit of an RKL kick lately. It is fun to hear these shows, but also heartbreaking to listen to Jason. He was so funny- I didn’t know he had kids. Just tragic that he passed away while trying to get clean.
Anyway, this is another recording from that amazing gift that is the Jason Ross archive. I popped it into Izotope and bumped the vocals down a bit, and bumped the bass up a bit. Mix fluctuates for the 1st 5min or so but settles down. Very enjoyable.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Transfer Equipment used: Namakichi Dragon & M-Audio audiophile 2496 card
Enhanced in Izotope (music rebalance)
Here’s a Jason Ross master VHS tape that was a bit of a challenge. The show was poorly lit so the source video was very dark. I brightened it in Elements and when I tried to denoise, it would not work… because that grainy pattern you see may not be video noise. This pattern stays static on the screen which I have never seen before. Odd.
Anyway, here it is. Too bad these were not digitized before that Green Pay punk documentary was done.
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Man, we have been hitting Jason Ross’ collection A LOT for these On This Date in History posts. Things must get busy with shows in the summer in the northern midwest part of the USA, because there are a lot of shows he filmed during this time.
This is another one that will benefit from a lossless transfer and brightening/denoise on day. I’ll get to it eventually.
Guitarist Jason Gnewikow went on to form The Promise Ring.
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: One of the JVCs (HR-S9800/9911U) firewire into Dell workstation
Jason Ross sent me a lot of his master VHS tapes a few years back and I digitized them soon after I received them. I didn’t post many at the time and once I started posting them, I would do a quick check to see if it was already posted. If it was, I wouldn’t bother putting up a duplicate post. This “On This Date in History” project has me taking a closer look at these. The one that was uploaded years ago is in 240p and you can’t see much. I went ahead and did a fresh transfer on the good setup- this one should be much clearer/better! Thanks Jason!
I still find it amusing that punk bands would play on a farm in Wisconsin.
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
This was a typical board mix- lots of vocals, drums were noticeably higher than the guitar. I was able to take Izotope rx and drop the vocals, boost the guitars/bass and it came out pretty nice! The mix fluctuates but it evens out a few minutes in.
Recorded by: Jason Ross
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon & M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card.
Enhanced with Izotope rx.
Yet another one from Jason Ross’ collection of VHS tapes. I only did a small percentage of his collection, but they all seem to be on the right days for the On This Date project.
I attempted to research who the band is.. and there are a LOT of bands called the Crooks! Man, what an ordeal. I think that this is The Crooks who released 1 7″ record on the Def Wisconsin label and had the following members:
Bass – Eric P “Gabby”
Drums – Neil P.
Guitar – Aric M “Mighty Boy”, L.P. “Gulvin”
Vocals – Duanne K
The audio on this is very low. This was done before I knew how to boost audio in Vegas/Premiere. Sorry. Turn it up.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HR-S series VCR – Canopus ADVC300
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