2009-09-24 | Moon Taxi

View NotesTERRAPIN HILL HARVEST FESTIVAL (volume 3)

This is a generic text file for the Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival (Harrodsburg, KY - 2009-09-24 through 2009-09-27) with additional specific notation for each band.

Despite the mud and the rain, I recorded pretty much the entire weekend. 

My setup is a Zoom H4n, with an 8 foot mic stand. For the most part I used no bass rolloff. Except for late night jams where people were jamming around my recorder, I used the 90 degree mics. I recorded everything to 16bit wav files. After normalization and tracking I encoded everything to FLAC using Trader's Little Helper. That's all.

I'm releasing all this in chronological order of what I recorded.

My methodology was as follows. For stereo recording, I got as close to the stage and set the mic stand as high as possible. The mud and rain didn't always make this a good spot. For the Pavilion stage I tried to stay right off the dance floor, DFC, and raised the recorder as high as possible. For the 4 channel stuff (on the Chapel Stage) I was parked safely under the sound tent. I got one set off the main stage before it was rained out due to 4 inches of water in the sound tent! Due to memory constraints I did not record everything in 4CH mode, only the more well-known bands. I did not record any of the first acts of the mornings. I also screwed up exactly twice and missed stuff I shouldn't have (totalling about an hour and a half.)

taped and upped by 

-John "Radar" Radawski

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MOON TAXI (2009-09-24, the Chapel Stage)

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4CH, SBD (@75%) plus AUD (@25%) > Zoom H4n, taped from the safety of the sound tent!

01. Funky Respirtation
02. Whiskey Sunset
03. Tumble      
04. rain delay conversation
05. The Stand
06. The Hideaway
07. Fool's Gold
08. Long Train Runnin'
09. Pennies From The Grave
10. Morning Time > Anchors

The first two tracks have pretty hot SBD levels, but everything is solid after that! There was a rain delay, obviously, and some cool and moody rain during the end of the set. Also, a very muddy golden retreiver kept jumping on the stage. 
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A wonderful time was had by all! 

Thank you Pete and Brenda! Thank you Dan Carpenter and all the other guys from LP sound for working in the crappiest conditions and still rocking the great sound! See you next year!

There is more to come.

If a band has an archive.org profile, I will upload it there. If they are trade-friendly I'll upload to bt.etree.org. For all else, there is always Dime-a-Dozen!!! :-)

If you have to contact me try john.radawski   @   da goooogle mail dot commmmm, or look for me on facebook!