Athens, GA
Dec. 31, 1988
soundboard recording (EX quality; from cassette copy of master)
SAMPLE: Gravity
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| An old Pylon gig flier I defaced. |
Pylon:
Randy Bewley (R.I.P.) - guitar
Vanessa Briscoe Hay - vocals
Curtis Crowe - drums
Michael Lachowski - bass
ROB SEZ: HECK YES: New Year's Eve with Pylon. HUGE thanks to the kind trader who shared this with me. He prefers to remain anonymous, and told me this is from a cassette copy of the soundboard master. As received, I only needed to split and tag the tracks, normalize, apply fades, remove dead spots, and apply one pass of modest eq to bring the high frequencies into better balance. No compression and no noise reduction were used in this edit. Vanessa announces Catch as "a new song" (a studio recording appears on the 1990 LP Chain). On this recording, Crazy features a minute-long Randy Bewley instrumental prior to the rest of the band joining in; I like it.
Vanessa Briscoe Hay - vocals
Curtis Crowe - drums
Michael Lachowski - bass
ROB SEZ: HECK YES: New Year's Eve with Pylon. HUGE thanks to the kind trader who shared this with me. He prefers to remain anonymous, and told me this is from a cassette copy of the soundboard master. As received, I only needed to split and tag the tracks, normalize, apply fades, remove dead spots, and apply one pass of modest eq to bring the high frequencies into better balance. No compression and no noise reduction were used in this edit. Vanessa announces Catch as "a new song" (a studio recording appears on the 1990 LP Chain). On this recording, Crazy features a minute-long Randy Bewley instrumental prior to the rest of the band joining in; I like it.
Greg in Washington DC
ReplyDeleteThanks for all of these! That July 88 show is the first I've heard, including the Official Live Album, where Vanessa's vocals aren't buried or muffled. Well done!
That seems to be how they typically mixed her voice (reminds me of how R.E.M. mixed Michael's voice in their earlier studio recordings). I agree -- the July '88 recording is the best for those of us who actually LIKE to hear Vanessa.
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