3) gavin i've heard a number of your live orb recordings. The quality is great, are they usually soundboard or what set up do you use?
my recording setup varies by show/location/authorization, but for the 2001 tour they were all Sony TCD-D8 DAT recorder>Oade Bros "stealth" mMics> Sony DG60P dds carriges @ 44.1kHz 16 bit. All were recorded from the floor of the venues in the audience, all dead center. The distance from the stage depended on the size/acoustis of the room they were in that night. Average was about 20-30 feet, but Toronto was about 50 feet, Denver I was in the soundboard pit, San Fran was about 70 feet. the DJ sets varied over the years too- 1999 & 2001 were same as above. 2003 and on were lineout>DAT from LX's mixer. 2005 Metro (still in the mixing stage) was recorded from 2 DAT decks, 1 soundboard feed, 1 from the same setup as 2001 but mics were set on a fixed stand. 2007 Bestival was much like 2005, except the soudboad recording was lineout>Edirol R-09 SD recorder @ 44.1kHz 16 bit. The audience recording from the DAT has errors throughout, and is practicly unusable. My Sony TCD-D8 DAT deck has now been retired after 9 years of use. I have switched to the Edirol R-09 recorder. This makes transfers a snap. For DAT transfers to my computer 1999-2004 I was using (the same)TCD-D8>spdif I/O 7 pin data cable>Soundblaster LIVE!>Soundforge 4.5.
From 2004 on I was using Sony PCM-R500 DAT Deck>coax>Edirol UA-5>USB>Soundforge XP 7.0. All digital all the time. DAT treansfers are all done in real time, so they can take a long time and space, especially when a 3 hour set is involved from 2 separate sources.
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