Björk
May 12th, 2007
Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre "Welcome Back We Missed You"
1st Balcony Row M - 3 seats off dead center > Audience Digital Master - 24 bit 48 KHz > 
bit reduced & downsampled to 16 bit 44.1 KHz for CD > Microtrack 24/96 > SP-Microtrack 
Mic Power > SP-CMC-8 (AT853) > Microtrack 24/96 > USB > PC > Cool Edit Pro v2 > Flac > CDR

01 - Cover Me ------------------ 02:43
02 - Earth Intruders ----------- 04:05
03 - Venus as a Boy ------------ 02:28
04 - Aurora -------------------- 04:48
05 - Unison -------------------- 06:44
06 - All is Full Of Love ------- 04:16
07 - Immature ------------------ 03:13
08 - The Pleasure Is All Mine -- 03:40
09 - It's Not Up To You -------- 05:20
10 - Pagan Poetry -------------- 05:15 
11 - Army Of Me ---------------- 04:14
12 - Innocence ----------------- 04:12
13 - Bachelorette -------------- 05:46
14 - Wanderlust ---------------- 06:08
15 - Hyperballad --------------- 04:32
16 - Pluto --------------------- 03:25
17 - Crowd Before Encores ------ 02:43 REMOVED TO FIT 1CD
Encore:
18 - Band Introductions -------- 00:54
19 - Oceania ------------------- 03:13
20 - Declare Independence ------ 04:29

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Tapers Notes: 

Wow what a show this was and Chicago was ready to greet her with open arms, hence the title. The crowd around me for the most part was very well behaved. There was this very nice gentleman next to me on my right side who did clap a little loud, but who could blame him! This was Björk and it was apparent she was missed in this town. So I had a little more work to do on post production minimizing the clapping on the right channel :)

I just purchased a new Microtracker 24/96 Professional Digital Recorder and an SP-Microtrack Mic Power a few days before the show. This was the first show I used it on so I was a bit nervous checking levels frequently. The Microtracker is a solid state recorder & records to compact flash memory cards. What does that mean? It means no moving parts! 
No moving parts = no recorder noise = an incredible recording!

Soundprofessionals did not have the SP-Mic power unit I wanted but had another item with mics in it and a power switch. I had to take that item to power my mics. The item I want which is just a Mic Power module for the Microtracker is being made for me so I will have it for the next show I record.

How it works: The built in Mics are cancelled when you plug in your external mics. It takes the external mics, applies 12 volts of dc power & routes the signal through the balanced 1/4 TRS  inputs on the Microtracker. My new power unit will not have built in Mics or a power switch therefore removing this point of interference from the equation :)  


Issues: While checking levels, the power switch created a dropout of the right channel which I recovered from.

Trak 111 - Army of Me - 00:27 to 00:30 - left channel cloned over right channel due to right channel dropout 
Trak 114 - Wanderlust - 03:48 to 04:01 & 04:10 t0 04:11 - left channel cloned over right channel due to right channel dropout