Tonight, hopefully

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Great night with Cool Banana opening for Delphic Oracle.

Sorry, the Model Village recording has lots of strange crackles and hisses which we think might be computer related corrupting files.

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Another busy and entertaining evening, thanks to all.

Comments welcome, please leave a comment if you use any of these MP3s on another site.

Another interesting night with Whimwise and their support - The Invisible Band #, enjoy.

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Another great set from Sarah Saville.

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This is the first recording with our new multi-channel Firewire desk and it was a very busy night so there could be some teething troubles. Apologies to anyone who came and signed up to play but didn’t get a chance to - there’s just not always time. Jon has also had to go in and mix the levels on the tracks which is why it’s taken a while to get these MP3s up live. Enjoy the music and we welcome feedback.

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This is a screen grab of last nights setup for recording Sarah Saville with 3 tracks in Garageband through our new Phonic firewire desk.

Tracks were
1. Vocal Mic
2. Hole on guitar mic’dp
3. Acoustic Guitar with pickup

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Sarahs MP3s will be up at some point soon.

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Fairly trouble free first night: power and Firewire lights are FAR too bright, unbelievably so; need a program with more simultaneous inputs, 8 into Garageband is not enough really; weird activity with Firewire into the desk, when playing iTunes from the Mac through the desk to the PA, after a while the audio is distorted and we have to turn the desk off and on the fix it.

On the plus side, the multi-channel magic is great (as can be seen here) we were able to play back a recording over the PA and turn off or on each track individually - much fun.

The only downside (for you listeners) is that the process or making it available on the site for download and play is now more complicated. Due to it being recording multitrack we have to fix the levels and whatnot before releasing it - which could take a few days.

So expect to see last night’s Open Mic up some time soon and come down to listen to Sarah Saville tonight and see the desk in action.

Thanks as ever to all. Any incorrect names - leave a comment.

Yet another fun Open Mic night, very busy. The kick drum on Spiral Architects is a bit loud and the snare mic drops out a few times.

If I have your names wrong, please leave a comment and I’ll fix it.

Another very entertaining evening of live music at The Fawcett Inn.

We had a few volume issues and then it went a little crackly.

Another eventful evening, thank you to all the new-comers.