Band name: The Legend of Zelda Symphony Of The Goddesses
Date: 1 December, 2017
Venue/location: North Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Recording type: Audience
Taper(s): ExVee
Media: Lossless
Source information: Digital Masters
Source 1: PA > Tascam DR-07 > Reaper > You
Generation: Master
Total running time: 51:52
Track listing:
~ Act II ~
01 Intermezzo ~ Temple of Time
02 Movement III ~ The Wind Waker
03 Movement IV ~ Twilight Princess
04 Movement V ~ Time of the Falling Rain
05 Finale
So, I arrived a little bit late for this, kind of mad cause the busses are the whole reason I was late. I stop and wait for my connection, and… it never arrives. Either, it was a half hour late, or I missed the bus I was supposed to get on, cause the drivers are incompitent. Either work.
As for the actual show, I’m so happy I got this, there are two sources, this one specifically is the Zoom iQ5, edited to sound as wide as possible. The actual audience cheering bits have some rather bad clipping, so I just automated those areas down so they don’t break your ears when listening. I had the mic gain turned way up on this one, just cause I know how quiet the symphony can be, it’s not going to be loud as a normal rock show blasting out of the PA, so some small things had to be done like that. I could use a compressor, but then I would compress EVERYTHING, and I don’t really want to be compressing the actual music super hard, but I want to squash the audience cheering and make that quieter, so manually automating works best for that. Exporting the files is going to be a little bit of a run around, but it all works for the best.
As for those first two tracks, I said I was late, which is why I didn’t get them, the Overture was missed completely, and the Dragon Roost Island was only a little bit of a miss, but still. At least I was able to record and get to the show and actually see most of it. That’s all I care about.
Another small thing, the people around me and the one guy behind me, were ANNOYING. The one guy cheered and went ‘WOOOOOO’ between each song, it was so damn annoying. The iQ5 doesn’t actually capture how annoying it was in person. So, there is that at least.
I was also tinkering with my Tascam DR-07 and trying to get that to work cause I didn’t have batteries in it, and in the dark I had a hard time seeing and actually getting the batteries in the right way. Whoops. I also had the wrong settings on the DR-07 which is why Act I is missing from the DR-07 source.
This is post editing like, everything, I’m at the finale, and my recording does catch how fucking annoying he was. There are random sharp dips in volume just cause of how goddamn loud he was, he managed to hardclip everything. If you want to know why the audience cheering bit has been automated down so hard, it’s cause of that guy. Behind me to my left, and cause I had the gain so loud due to the symphony not having the PA turned up like rock shows, it sounds like he’s screaming in the mic directly due to how goddamn loud he actually was. So, automated the audience down instead.
And, on a side production note, I had the gain turned down for Act II, I probably shouldn’t have touched it, but all the same. Still sounds great.
Tascam 24-bit source.
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Mastered and tracked by ExVee on 22 January, 2018
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