DAT-Heads Digest #758
Contents:
Sky Cries Mary @ Maratime Hall (Thomas Newton)
B & P's (Constantine Tsiamis)
Building mic preamp (Sam Elder)
Anyone tape Bela (2.5.99) Peace Center? ("Jason Gallagher")
Re: Windows '98 vs 95 ("Gary Davis")
Absense ... ("Michael Ryan")
Re: Windows explained ("David D. Rogers")
Re: Kodak CD-R ("David D. Rogers")
11-20-98 Phish tree structure posted ("gamehenge")
bad Minutemen/Banyan CD (to the person who returned one) ("Gary Davis")
CSNY is on BIG TIME !!! ("Joe Ray Skrha")
Extra DATs available for B&P (keith)
Digital workstation specs... (nick peters)
ISO: James Lavelle [UNKLE] in the UK (bjurusik)
Re: Digital workstation specs... (Seth Breidbart)
Strunz and Farah (w/tourdates) -- A MUST SEE!!! (Ibiza Bar)
From: chinarider@webtv.net (Thomas Newton)
Subject: Sky Cries Mary @ Maratime Hall
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:58:58 -0800 (PST)
If anyone is planning on tapeing these guys tonight I'd like to set up a
trade. I taped them last night in Sacramento from the board, and it
sounds real nice! Thanks, Tom
From: Constantine Tsiamis <cjt@videosecrets.com>
Subject: B & P's
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:48:35 -0800
hey dudes,
i got a bunch of Frank Zappa, JMP, DCQ, Miles Davis, John Coltrane,
Morphine, Doors, Bela Fleck & a ton of Phish...
will do B & P's because i love to spread the goodness...
peace,
cjt
From: Sam Elder <samuel.elder@yale.edu>
Subject: Building mic preamp
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:33:47 -0500
As I haven't been able to find any inexpensive mic preamps (unfortunately I
don't have $600+ at the moment for one) that run off battery power and
provide good quality, and as I would enjoy putting together such a device
myself, can anyone suggest a good location for a schematic to one. Jensen
Transformers web site had a number of them, however I was not entirely sure
which to use (the sony dat player version looked interesting however it
appeared as if it was meant to plug into the sony dat mic input rather than
line and I wanted something that would provide a line level output). Other
people have suggested Burr brown as well however I couldn't come up with
much on their site. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
From: "Jason Gallagher" <yhsihp@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Anyone tape Bela (2.5.99) Peace Center?
Reply-to: yhsihp@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:45:51 -0500
If anyone happened to tape last's nights show at the Peace Center in
Greenville, SC and would possibly like to trade or do a b&p for me, please
lemme me know, myself and several others would be very appreciative, thanks
much......
Jason
yhsihp@bellsouth.net
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Garage/2484/Tapelist.htm
From: "Gary Davis" <gdavis@loop.com>
Subject: Re: Windows '98 vs 95
Reply-to: gdavis@loop.com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:10:19 -0800
The main reason I switched to Win '98 was to get the Fat32
converter. While you can get Fat32 under win '98 with an upgrade,
you still don't have the converter to easily convert old Fat16
partitions to Fat32.
Fat32 (hard disk data structure) offers two important advantages
over Fat16. First, partitions can be made larger than 2GB, so your
6.4GB or 10GB EIDE Hard Drive (now under $200) can be installed
as one partition, not C: D: E: F: G: and H:
Second, if you have directories will large numbers of small files
(such as .jpg files), the smaller cluster size of Fat32 will save you
an ENORMOUS amount of disk space -- a 2GB parition might
recover 300-500MB of empty space when converter from Fat16 >
Fat32.
It has been argued that the larger clusters of Fat16 are better for
audio. Maybe on a slower, older, computer, but the small clusters
work just fine on a modern hard disk, and installing your new large
hard disk as one partition is invaluable.
--Gary
From: "Michael Ryan" <beerman@gte.net>
Subject: Absense ...
Reply-To: "Michael Ryan" <beerman@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:18:34 -0800
Hey now fellow tapers !!! If you have been trying to contact me I am
sorry about the delay !!!! I worked 13 days at 15 or more hours a day and
then got the FLU ( its like bad acid ) so have not been on line . Please
contact me if you are my parent or child on any tree ... I still am waiting
for two people to send me tapes for the Scarlet-Fire tree of DP #10 and the
Turtle tree #36 . So please write if I owe you tapes or if you owe me . I
know a couple of folks still owe me as I sent tapes while waiting to choose
from their list , you know who you are so please get in touch , Peace ,
Michael
From: "David D. Rogers" <drogers@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Windows explained
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 21:26:48 -0500 (EST)
>From: LocoBrian@aol.com
>Subject: Windows explained
>Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:50:10 EST
[snip]
>Sorry to waste the bandwidth but it's better than another "my mics are
better
>than yours" post
The difference being...?
Peace,
<> David
From: "David D. Rogers" <drogers@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Kodak CD-R
Reply-To: "David D. Rogers" <drogers@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 21:46:34 -0500 (EST)
>From: "David D. Rogers" <drogers@pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: Kodak CD-R
>Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:50:36 -0800
[snip]
You can scratch a lot off my previous post. Someone just informed me that
Kodak's "Improved" CD-R isn't a phthalocyanine dye (gold/gold) disc, but a
green/gold disc (either cyanine or azocyanine). This type of dye can be
made very stable, but not as stable as the best phthalocyanine dye. (No
wonder Kodak hasn't answered my email as to whether their new CD-Rs are as
stable as the old ones! :( ) Kodak doesn't mention this on their web site;
actually, a lot of the technical information that used to be at
http://www.kodak.com isn't there anymore. I was using Kodak as my main
source of information, and Kodak is giving out less information than they
used to.
The upshot of cyanine (recapping my previous post) is that it burns more
thoroughly (meaning fewer errors), and that it allows a more reflective
disc.
Peace,
<> David
From: "gamehenge" <gamehenge@sirus.com>
Subject: 11-20-98 Phish tree structure posted
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:58:01 -0400
I just finished with the structure for the 11-20-98 DAT/Analog Phish tree.
Please, if you are on this tree, then get in touch with your parent as soon
as possible so that this can get moving. It is normally the child's
responsibly to get in touch with the parent, so please do that. The
structure is at: www.mindspring.com/~gamehendge/TFBT under the tree's
section. Follow the links.
Peace
Phil
gamehenge@sirus.com
From: "Gary Davis" <gdavis@loop.com>
Subject: bad Minutemen/Banyan CD (to the person who returned one)
Reply-to: gdavis@loop.com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:30:38 -0800
Sorry for the personal message, but someone sent me back a
blank Banyan/Minutemen CD to re-run, and now I can't figure out
who it was...
thanks
--Gary
From: "Joe Ray Skrha" <joeray@ptialaska.net>
Subject: CSNY is on BIG TIME !!!
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:19:11 -0900
Hello My Friends and Greetings From Alaska,
Several days ago David Crosby let the cat out of the bag by discussing
a CSNY record and tour. Now it is official from Neils camp ... Read thr
following and try not to screem to loud. YEAAAAA!!!
SonicNet Music News reports: Legendary folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young are in the midst of recording their first album of all-original
material in more than a decade and are planning to mount a summer reunion
tour.
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young, who first
collaborated as a foursome more than 30 years ago, are planning on hitting
the road for a major tour tentatively slated to launch in July, according to
Young's manager, Elliot Roberts.
The quartet also is in the studio working on an album, its first group
effort since 1988's American Dream. Roberts said the group shelved a planned
Crosby, Stills & Nash album that was to feature sporadic Young contributions
in favor of a full-length collaboration.
"They're making a full CSN&Y album," Roberts said, "and the songs are
astounding."
The surprise collaboration coincides with the 30th anniversary of the
recording of CSN&Y's smash 1970 album Deja-Vu, which featured such folk-rock
classics as "Teach Your Children," "Carry On" and "Our House."
Roberts would not offer details of the upcoming tour, the dates of which he
said were not yet finalized. It would mark the first time in 25 years that
the group, which rose to stardom with their folk-fueled songs and harmonies
during the '70s, had mounted a tour together.
Rumors of the reunion began circulating last Thursday after Graham Nash
announced on CNN's "Showbiz Today" that Young had been joining the trio in
the studio and contributing tracks to what had been planned as a CSN album.
"I've long since learned not to project and not to anticipate," Nash told
CNN's Jim Moret. "But it sounds great and Neil's very happy, and we're very
happy, and so it looks good."
The group first got together as a trio of Stills, who came onto the scene
with acclaimed '60s folk-rock act Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, previously
with the psychedelic-rock group Byrds; and Nash, who came out of the
Brit-pop act the Hollies. Blending their distinctive voices to create an
American folk supergroup, Crosby, Stills & Nash released their self-titled
debut in 1969.
They added Young -- who had played with Stills in Buffalo Springfield -- on
their subsequent debut tour, which included their first live appearance at
1969's historic Woodstock Festival.
The band split acrimoniously after a tour in support of Deja-Vu. A
best-selling double-live album, Four-Way Street, was released in 1971
following the split. A compilation, So Far, was issued to coincide with a
1974 stadium reunion tour. But the group didn't record together again until
1988's disappointing American Dream.
"We see ourselves as being able to do this for another 20 years," Young told
SonicNet Editorial Director Michael Goldberg in February of 1987 in an
interview for Rolling Stone magazine.
"We don't see that it's over. With us, we can stay away for four or five
years and come back and our audience is still there," Young said of the
then-reunited group, who had been referred to as the "American Beatles" in
their prime. "We don't have to stay with what's happening. Because we're
happening. We're not in that race. We're in our own slot. I just don't feel
competition from anyone. Who's competing with us? If the Beatles were
playing today, that would be something that we would think about. Are we
doing something as hip as what the Beatles are doing? What else is there?"
Gary Bongiovanni, editor of tour industry trade magazine Pollstar, predicted
the tour could easily play to sold-out 15-20,000-seat amphitheaters. But he
said he had doubts the CSN&Y tour would be as big as that of another
reunited '70s supergroup: the smash-hit Fleetwood Mac tour of 1997.
"My gut reaction is that it won't be as big as [Fleetwood Mac]," Bongiovanni
said. "There has been a Crosby, Stills & Nash in the marketplace
consistently over the years, but then I was wrong about the Mac reunion at
first, so it could surprise me." The Fleetwood Mac reunion tour grossed
$36.3 million and played to an average of 19,000 fans per show, according to
Pollstar.
Given the short amount of time CSN&Y were together as a touring entity and
the rarity of seeing the four performers on stage, Bongiovanni predicted the
show would, however, bring out nostalgic baby boomers who could easily
afford to pay top dollar for tickets. "The Four-Way Street tour was one of
the best I've ever seen," Bongiovanni added.
And as I stated earlier, lets all keep this dream alive and incorporate
this wonderful HIGH into all of our lives for this is truely what dreams and
memories are made off...Share a little love with everyone around you. I
love you all, From the Kenai River, Alaska...Joe Ray Skrha at:
joeray@ptialaska.net
From: keith <kcarol2@gte.net>
Subject: Extra DATs available for B&P
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 08:36:29 +0000
I'm cleaning house and I have several DATs to trade for new, unopened,
shrink-wrapped blanks plus postage.
Send an e-mail to kcarol2@gte.net telling me which shows you want and
what brand of tapes you will be sending. First come first serve:
here's what i'm getting rid of:
Phish 12.30.96 Boston 2x60m
--
Phish 12.29.96 Philly 2x60m
--
Black Crowes 10.16.96 Syracuse 1x60m
--
Funky Meters 04.15.94 NYC 1x90m
--
Phish 07.23.91 Washington, DC 1x90m
--
Athenaeum &
Vertical Horizon 11.21.96 Winston-Salem, NC 1x90m
--
Cure 06.13.97 Mt. View, CA &
Cure 10.31.97 NYC &
WBLN interview w/ Robert Smith 12.02.97 1x90m
--
Screaming Trees 11.15.96 Germany &
Kula Shaker 09/96 Germany &
Bob Marley & the Wailers 06.13.80 Germany 1x90m
--
Soundgarden 04.16.90 Germany &
Sting 09.08.96 Houston 1x90m
--
Free Tibet concert 1996 featuring:
Rage Against the Machine, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins,
Sonic Youth, Richie Havens, & Yoko Ono &
KROQ Xmas 12.17.95 featuring:
Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, & Presidents of the USA 1x90m
---
Sarah McLaughlin 07.24.97 Hartford, CT &
Paula Cole 07.24.97 Hartford &
Filler of 1996 Tibetan Freedom w/
Yoko Ono, Rage, Foo Fighters & Smashing Pumpkins 1x90m
peace,
keith
From: nick peters <nickpeters@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Digital workstation specs...
Reply-To: "nickpeters@bigfoot.com" <nickpeters@bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:05:00 -0500
hey all,
Over the past year, I've picked up some great info from this list group
concerning DAT->CDR transfers and using you PC as a digi workstation.
Anyway, I thought I would bounce a few ideas off everyone.
Here's my situation...I have most of the needed equipment except the digi
soundcard for my PC and this weekend I'm doing a little reformatting/OS
installing and I had some decent questions that I think list members might
benefit from discussion. First of all, here's my PC specs:
180 mhz Pentium pro
64mb EDO
HP 8100 series burner (EIDE)
Sound Forge
Adaptec or Goldenhawk
two EIDE HD's...one 3.5 gigs, the other 2.5 gigs
I previously had the OS and the burner on one controller and the CD
playback and HD for free space on another controller. I got this advice
from DAT heads.
So, first question is the OS. What is the best OS for a digi workstation.
Redhat is not an option at this time. I had been using NT 4.0 WS sp3 or
4. NT had been working great with most services disabled. I had ever plan
to reinstall 4.0 Ws as the OS until I came up with this question....what is
the best MS OS for audio work? NT or 98? I have very little experience
with 98 and really don't want to!!! My current PC has no USB
port...therefore I gain no advantage there. Plus I enjoy that added
control of random processes and services in NT.
So....at this point I would be going with NT WS...until I came up with
this question. As I was researching what kind of digi soundcard to
get....I noticed that a few cards don't support NT. Is there a reason for
this relating to shortcomings of the OS? Here are the cards i was thinking
about:
Lucent PCI24
Sekd prodif24 or 32
LynkOne
Event Gina
AdB MultiWav pro 24
Turtlebeach Pinnacle
Lots of choices....some ISA, some PCI. I would rather get a PCI card. So,
if anyone out there could offer me a few suggestions as to what OS to use
and any experience with any of these digi cards it would be greatly
appreciated!!!!
please feel free to email me directly,
-nick
From: bjurusik <bjurusik@stny.lrun.com>
Subject: ISO: James Lavelle [UNKLE] in the UK
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 99 11:27:12
Dat-heads,
If anyone in the UK taped James Lavelle touring for UNKLE,
please email me, thanks
Brian Jurusik [bjurusik@stny.lrun.com]
From: Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Digital workstation specs...
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:09:26 -0500 (EST)
> I noticed that a few cards don't support NT. Is there a reason for
> this relating to shortcomings of the OS?
More likely due to the expected market size. NT is for servers, which
don't generally use fancy sound cards.
Seth
From: Ibiza Bar <ibizabar@mindspring.com>
Subject: Strunz and Farah (w/tourdates) -- A MUST SEE!!!
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:54:19 -0500
My friend Jay told me of this Afro-Cuban influenced band known as Strunz
and Farah. He told me that you MUST SEE THEM on Sunday in Atlanta.
They are roughly in the category of "jazz" but their influences range from
flamenco, Caribbean, Afro-Latin, Latin American, etc. Both Jorge Strunz
and Ardeshir Farah, from Costa Rica and Iran respectively, are classically
trained guitarists that have played since early childhood and display
incredible virtuosity and chemistry together. Backed by a group of
world-class musicians from all parts of the globe, they are a band that put
on the most incredible show of world music you will ever see!!!
(Heck, I still haven't seen them, but upon hearing a few mono WAV files of
some song clips, I'm already excited!!!!)
In any event, if you are in the following cities, PLEASE PLEASE go and see
them! And if you can, tape them too!!! As far as with their taping
policy, I'm not sure but I think that it is unlikely that they would allow
taping. Therefore, stealthing would be the way to go! (That's what I'm
doing!)
02-06-99 Sapphire Supper Club Orlando, FL 407-570-3356
02-07-99 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA 404-524-7354 ***
02-09-99 Richardson Auditorium Corpus Christi, TX 512-886-1243
02-10-99 Satellite Lounge Houston, TX 713-869-2665
02-12-99 Caravan of Dreams Fort Worth, TX 817-877-3000
02-13-99 La Zona Rosa Austin, TX 512-472-4445
If you are a fan of Django Reinhardt or gypsy and classical guitar, then
this would be the band for you! If interested in knowing more of this
band, go to this webpage: http://www.strunzandfarah.com/
It is very rare for them to tour, I've heard, and this could be a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to see them. You won't be disappointed!!! But
remember, I would stealth the show and not ask their manager if it's okay
to tape. Keep it our little secret ;)
Strunz and Farah -- the best kept secret in the world!!! See them!
Peace and music,
Brian
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