David Grisman Sextet
City Winery
New York, NY
4/9/2011

Neumann TLM-170 (cardoid, about 6 tables/60 feet back from stage, 1-2  feet right of center) -> Sound Devices 722 (@24/96).  FLAC File processing in SoundForge Audio Studio 10.0c (loud clap removal; focused EQ in a couple of spots to knock out 2 loud crowd yells; volume normalization;; resample to 44.1 with iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter; 24->16 bit dither using iZotope MBIT+ Dither with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings); Tracked in CDWav.

Set 1
1.  intro
2.  Opus 57
3.  banter - the new sextet
4.  Bluegrass At The Beach
5.  Hornpipe Dream
6.  banter - band intros
7.  Tracy's Tune
8.  banter - the movie
9.  Grateful Dawg
10. Slinky
11. banter - mountain music
12. Daniel Boone
13. banter - merch for sale
14. 16/16

Set 2
1.  banter - Tony Trischka dedication
2.  Dawg's Bull
3.  ?
4.  banter - doggie heaven
5.  Mad Max
6.  banter - Grant Gordy
7.  Blues To Dawg
8.  banter - greatest hit
9.  Minor Swing
10. banter - waltz for Jerry Garcia
11. Dawg's Waltz
12. Pupville
13. banter - romantic piece
14. Newly Wedding
15. banter - back tomorrow
16. Opus 38 ->
17. Shady Grove
18. encore break, inviting out Punch Brothers
19. ? *
20. band intros/goodnights


* = w/Gabe Witcher (fiddle) and Noam Pikelny (banjo) from The Punch Brothers, also with Samson Grisman on bass in place of Jim Kerwin


David Grisman - mandolin, vocals
Mike Barnett - fiddle
Jim Kerwin - bass
George Marsh - drums
Matt Eackle - flute
Grant Gordy - guitar

Recorded, Mastered, and Tracked by Scott Bernstein

Note:  Some things that you might hear during this recording that are minor flaws but unavoidable:  the rumble of the subway #1 train passing through the nearby Houston Street Station; a cooing baby a few seats away; the constant hacking cough of a woman a also few seats away; the loud POP of Grant Gordy bumping his guitar into the microphone on stage.  None of these are really bad though.  I did do quite a bit of mastering work on this to minimize some of the LOUD claps and even EQ'd out a couple of ecstatic yells from the crowd.