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Tata by night

Nonoo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:46 +0000

On Friday night, we took some photographs and recorded some sounds in the city with BlooD2oo1.

More images are here.

Sounds:

Summer night sounds

Nonoo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:50:22 +0000

We’ve been on the field on Friday and Saturday night with BlooD2oo1. He took some great pictures of the night sky (I’ll post them later) while I recorded some sounds.

Tommy Emmanuel bootleg

Nonoo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:28:57 +0000

I was at the Budapest Palace of Arts with my friends again and recorded a concert held by the amazing guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.

Unfortunately there were many dynamic volume changes and I forgot to adjust the recording level accordingly, so there are clips and distortions.

The mastering was done in the old fashioned “eq by ear” method. Surprisingly this record sounds better than the previous ones (not counting the distortions), low-end is much finer, but the highs are still missing (shame on you, MuPa sound engineers).

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9:30 & Alien Chatter bootleg

Nonoo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:05:02 +0000

I’ve quickly finished mastering of my latest live recording of 9:30 Collective & Alien Chatter’s concert at Budapest Palace of Arts held on Monday last week.

This time I used Har-Bal for eq balancing and suprisingly it worked great for this lo-fi kind of stuff. This recording sounds much better (but still has the usual problems, muddy low-end etc.), only slight eqing and loudness adjustment were needed after processing.

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FSCO bootleg

Nonoo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:58:39 +0000

I’ve recorded Free Style Chamber Orchestra’s concert at Budapest Palace of Arts back on 14th January, but I’ve almost forgot it, as well as to do some mastering and upload the file, so here it is.

The quality is the same as previous bootlegs: it was recorded with my M-Audio Microtrack with it’s factory default stereo mic. There’s a lot of reverb, and the low-end of the freq spectrum is very muddy, high- and low-end were missing in the original recording – say thank you to the tone-deaf mixing engineers at the Palace.

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Michal Urbaniak Band

Nonoo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:59:44 +0000

Yesterday evening Michal Urbaniak Band played at the Budapest Palace of Arts. I’ve recorded the whole concert. I was totally amazed, I liked the music very much.

I don’t want to offend the mixing engineers at the Palace of Arts, but the mixing was (sadly, like on the other concerts) awful. Mika’s voice was quiet, Urbaniak was too loud, high frequencies were cut, low-end was boosted too much.

I hope you’ll like this recording in spite of the annoyances – this is quality jazz music.

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Kronos Quartet Bootleg

Nonoo — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:02:32 +0000

Yesterday evening Kronos Quartet played at the Budapest Palace of Arts. I’ve recorded the 2nd part of the concert.

The quality is the same as the previous Steve Reich bootleg’s: it was recorded with my M-Audio Microtrack with it’s factory default stereo condenser mic and it’s noisy built-in preamp. There’s a lot of reverb, and the low-end of the freq spectrum is very muddy.

I hope you’ll like this recording in spite of the annoyances.

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Sound of a Flobert pistol

Nonoo — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:04:51 +0000

Recorded at Tibi’s wine-cellar. :)

Crikvenica 2007 stuff

Nonoo — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:39:49 +0000

So here are some images taken by BlooD2oo1.

More pics are here.
UPDATE: pictures from Tibi are here.
A sound recorded on the beach is here.

Sound of lake Cseke

Nonoo — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:34:15 +0000

We were at lake Cseke (Tata) last dawn with Penya, and recorded some sounds. Unfortunately, the city noise at around 1-2am is quite loud, so I’ve uploaded only this recording to the Freesound page.