Bring the Light | 2007-11-18 | Smashing Pumpkins

View Notessource: Sound Professionals Premium AT Slimline Cardioids (3-Wire Hyperplane mod) > Hyperplane 3-Wire Mini Battery Box > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96(@24/48)
location: section 309, row CCC, seat 7 (way back there)
transfer: M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 > USB > WAV > Wavelab (mastering) > CD Wave (splitting) > FLAC
modifications: magik
24bit>16bit conversion: TLH > wav > r8brain (dither 16/44.1 @ highest quality) > tlh (flac8)
conversion: trustthex

The Review: A special thanks to Stephan for going to this show with me.  We got to our 
seats a song or so into EITS's set.  Show started earlier than I realized but EITS 
were really bad, in my opinion.  Between the two of us, we had three audio rigs 
going and on video rig.  The Pumpkins came out shortly before 9:30 opening with 
United States, which I think is a pretty rocking opener.  They played a pretty 
solid non-stop set with a little bit of witty banter here and there.  Over all, 
I think the set list was OK.  I was really hoping for Starla or Gossamer, but I 
will not complain.  It had been eleven years since I had last seen the Pumpkins 
and I was really not familiar with much of the material, so it was quite fun listening 
to many of these songs for the first time.  It was nice to hear a few `golden oldies' 
off of the S.D. album (but no Gish alas).  The set itself was a little shorter than I 
had hoped. If you remove all the banter and encore break, it almost becomes a 105 
minute show. All in all, we got three decent audio recordings and a nice video 
recording (Stephan did all the hard work on that one).  

The Recording: The recording came out decent, sounds a little distant but I will not 
complain.  I faded out the beginning of the encore break on track 20 after Heavy Metal
Machine was over.  I had to start a new track at that point or my MicroTrack 24/96 was 
going to start a new one for me. I kept all of the encore break in the recording as well, 
which starts on track 21 with a fade in.  Billy does a small amount of talking at the end
of the outtro track so I decided to leave that in as well.  Over all, the recording is 
decent.  I am sure there are several out there better than mine, but hey, this is ok.

Taper: kfrinkle

2:02:09

Taper:

tsp2007-11-18.sp-mod.flac24

Source:

Sound Professionals Premium AT Slimline Cardioids (3-Wire Hyperplane mod) > Hyperplane 3-Wire Mini Battery Box > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96(@24/48)

Lineage:

M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 > USB > WAV > Wavelab (mastering) > CD Wave (splitting) > FLAC

Taper Notes:

View Notessource: Sound Professionals Premium AT Slimline Cardioids (3-Wire Hyperplane mod) > Hyperplane 3-Wire Mini Battery Box > M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96(@24/48)
location: section 309, row CCC, seat 7 (way back there)
transfer: M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 > USB > WAV > Wavelab (mastering) > CD Wave (splitting) > FLAC
modifications: magik

The Review: A special thanks to Stephan for going to this show with me.  We got to our 
seats a song or so into EITS's set.  Show started earlier than I realized but EITS 
were really bad, in my opinion.  Between the two of us, we had three audio rigs 
going and on video rig.  The Pumpkins came out shortly before 9:30 opening with 
United States, which I think is a pretty rocking opener.  They played a pretty 
solid non-stop set with a little bit of witty banter here and there.  Over all, 
I think the set list was OK.  I was really hoping for Starla or Gossamer, but I 
will not complain.  It had been eleven years since I had last seen the Pumpkins 
and I was really not familiar with much of the material, so it was quite fun listening 
to many of these songs for the first time.  It was nice to hear a few `golden oldies' 
off of the S.D. album (but no Gish alas).  The set itself was a little shorter than I 
had hoped. If you remove all the banter and encore break, it almost becomes a 105 
minute show. All in all, we got three decent audio recordings and a nice video 
recording (Stephan did all the hard work on that one).  

The Recording: The recording came out decent, sounds a little distant but I will not 
complain.  I faded out the beginning of the encore break on track 20 after Heavy Metal
Machine was over.  I had to start a new track at that point or my MicroTrack 24/96 was 
going to start a new one for me. I kept all of the encore break in the recording as well, 
which starts on track 21 with a fade in.  Billy does a small amount of talking at the end
of the outtro track so I decided to leave that in as well.  Over all, the recording is 
decent.  I am sure there are several out there better than mine, but hey, this is ok.

Taper: trustthex

tsp2007-11-18.ecm717.flac16

Source:

Sony ECM-717 > Edirol R-09 (24/48)

Lineage:

Edirol R-09 (24/48) > Adobe Audition 1.5 (10dB Boost, Hard Limiting, Dither to 16bit) > CDWave 1.96.1 > TLH (flac8)

Taper Notes:

View NotesThe Smashing Pumpkins
Nokia Theater
Grand Prairie, Tx
November 18, 2007

Source: Sony ECM-717 > Edirol R-09 (24/48) > Adobe Audition 1.5 (10dB Boost, 
	Hard Limiting, Dither to 16bit) > CDWave 1.96.1 > TLH (flac8)

Total Time: 123:43

Notes:

* Star Spangled Banner tease (Key)
& PA Repeater somewhere Left of Center blows, this is turned off during Lucky 13
^ White Rabbit tease (Jefferson Airplane, 3:40), Eruption tease (Van Halen, 7:00), 
	Iron Man (Black Sabbath, 7:35), On the Road Again tease (Canned Heat, 11:25),
	I Love Rock & Roll tease (The Arrows, 15:15)

Seeded TTD: 11-22-2007
Uploaded LMA: 11-29-2007

Taper: trustthex

tsp2007-11-18.ecm717.flac24

Source:

Sony ECM-717 > Edirol R-09 (24/48)

Lineage:

Edirol R-09 (24/48) > Adobe Audition 1.5 (10dB Boost, Hard Limiting) > CDWave 1.96.1 > TLH (flac8)

Taper Notes:

View NotesThe Smashing Pumpkins
Nokia Theater
Grand Prairie, Tx
November 18, 2007

Source: Sony ECM-717 > Edirol R-09 (24/48) > Adobe Audition 1.5 (10dB Boost, Hard Limiting) > CDWave 1.96.1 > TLH (flac8)

Notes:

* Star Spangled Banner tease (Key)
& PA Repeater somewhere Left of Center blows, this is turned off during Lucky 13
^ White Rabbit tease (Jefferson Airplane, 3:40), Eruption tease (van Halen, 7:00), Iron Man (Black Sabbath, 7:35), On the Road Again tease (Canned Heat, 11:25), I Love Rock & Roll tease (The Arrows, 15:15)

Seeded TTD: 11-20-2007
Uploaded LMA: 11-27-2007

Taper: BG RAVES + Homeless Crisco + 1st Mate Kate + Coach

2:02:05

Taper:

BG RAVES + Homeless Crisco + 1st Mate Kate + Coach

DSM-6S > PA-6LC3 > M1 > 7pin>optical > NJB3

Lineage:

NJB3 > USB > CEP 2.1 > flac

Taper Notes:

View Notesrecorded from Section 103, Row O, Seat 13 (1st row of seats behind pit, just about dead center)

big thanks to homeless for taking the great picts (even though some of the photos were lost on the skinny sidewalk)
and to kate for sticking it out through the heat wave
and to coach for staying in the game with only a half a night's sleep