Peter Rowan
The Charlotte Pub, Leicester, England
2003-12-07

Source: CoreSound binaurals > JB3@44k > .wav > Adobe Audition > .flac

According to the clock in the JB3, 1st set ended at 10:11pm
2nd set ended at 11:14pm.

1st Set:
 1. Introduction                         1:16
 2. Midnight Moonlight                   3:37
 3. Panama Red                           3:09
 4. Tumble Weed                          4:09
 5. Wings Of Horses                      3:06
 6. Blue Moon Of Kentucky                2:57
 7. The Walls Of Time                    4:21
 8. Man Of Constant Sorrow               2:59
 9. Reggaebilly rap                      1:16
10. The Cuckoo Bird                      5:59
11. Girl In The Blue Velvet Band         5:24
12. The Picture Bride Of Angel Island    5:20
13. Free Mexican Airforce rap            4:36
14. Free Mexican Airforce                6:08
 Total Time : [54:16]

2nd Set:
 1. Introduction                         1:19
 2. Cold Rain & Snow                     6:45
 3. Land Of The Navajo                   8:51
 4. Break My Heart Again                 4:25
 5. Ahmed The Beggar Boy                 5:42
 6. Seeds My Daddy Sowed                 2:56
 7. Raglan Road                          6:48
 8. Miss Liberty (Lay My Lonesome Down)  4:48
 9. Audience                             1:58
10. White Dove                           4:28
11. MC Outro                             1:05
 Total Time : [49:06]


I don't seem to have a record of the name of the venue - it
was a small pub; internet searches suggest that The Charlotte
is the most likely (indeed only) candidate. But The Charlotte
website (http://www.thecharlotte.co.uk) suggests a capacity
of 390. I remember it as being much smaller, more like 80 at
a squeeze. The photo of the pub, and its location in Leicester
probably back up the liklihood of it being the correct venue.


Editing:

Converted wave files to 32-bit, in preparation for the
following major volume adjustments:

Using Adobe Auditions multitrack view, I applied varying volume
increases, basically +18db for the first set and +16db for the
second set. During the audience applause, the volume was adjusted
back down again, and some songs or sections of songs were
increased by a lesser amount. Also, balance was shifted to the
Left: "-20" by the Adobe measurement.

The resulting mixdown still had a number of peaks above 0db. But,
since this was a 32-bit wave the audio is represented correctly;
there is no brick-walling. I used the "hard limiting" function
to reduce 40 or 50 brief overloads in each set.

The result is a recording that has very noticable amounts of hiss
during the performance sections - which were originally performed
and recorded very quietly - and sections of applause and laughter
where it will sound as if the volume has been turned down (and
there is less hiss). Actually, these changes are reasonably
smooth and unintrusive - when listening through speakers, at
least. During headphone listening, the background hiss & noise,
and volume adjustments are far more noticable, probably to the
point of some distraction.

First 2 seconds of first set on master recording were left-channel
only. Fixed by copying Left channel to right channel after all
above-listed volume adjustments. Some smoothing over electrical
click at the end of this section.


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     1:16.14       13439372    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t01.flac
     3:36.44       38205932    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t02.flac
     3:09.01       33341996    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t03.flac
     4:09.08       43942460    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t04.flac
     3:06.32       32885708    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t05.flac
     2:57.15       31258124    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t06.flac
     4:20.42       45962828    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t07.flac
     2:59.16       31613276    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t08.flac
     1:15.69       13392332    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t09.flac
     5:58.64       63301772    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t10.flac
     5:23.48       57090140    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t11.flac
     5:19.65       56424524    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t12.flac
     4:36.19       48731132    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t13.flac
     6:07.73       64910540    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d1t14.flac
     1:19.36       14020316    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t01.flac
     6:45.32       71517308    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t02.flac
     8:50.45       93597884    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t03.flac
     4:24.59       46708412    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t04.flac
     5:42.14       60361772    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t05.flac
     2:56.35       31128764    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t06.flac
     6:47.72       71964188    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t07.flac
     4:47.55       50756204    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t08.flac
     1:57.67       20796428    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t09.flac
     4:27.74       47272892    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t10.flac
     1:05.36       11550716    ---   --    --xx   pr2003-12-07d2t11.flac
   103:22.60     1094175020 B                     (totals for 25 files, 0.4922 overall compression ratio)