Lee Ranaldo at Indie-O Fest in Mexico City, April 7th, 2012.
 

All info and content generated from Lee Ranaldo's performance at Polyfórum Siqueiros in Mexico City on Saturday, April 7th, 2012, should be posted here, please.

Below's the flyer for the festival. Maybe it would have been a good idea to condense everything (i.e. Thurston's show as well) in a single thread, but let's see how this works.

Why make two threads about the same gig?

one for Lee and one for Thurston...

Yeah, but is it neccesary ;) (not gonna nag about it, just sayin´, hah)

maybe not but it'll be easier for people who want to just read/see/hear the Lee or Thurston reviews/pics/recordings...

I think it's necessary.

Pelle, please go post something irrelevant as you always do, just do it on some other thread and let this be just a recipient for good stuff. I for one do not appreciate you spewing your unreasonable, worthless bitching here. I never post two threads about the exact same thing actually, maybe you got problems to differentiate.

Calm down dude, I agree though (stu said it).
I didn't mean to do a "thing" about it, I was just reflecting a bit.

You need to keep your "reflections" to yourself. This ain't the first time I see you complaining or otherwise questioning when it's just pointless and unnecessary, and it adds nothing to the thread other than just a senseless confrontation. People here seem to like you a lot judging by the reputation thing. You are higher than Moshe on such list (for fuck's sake), though I fail to see anything of merit in any of your posts, but that's fine just as long as you don't think you have the wit for trolling and just cut the crap from now on.

Anyway, according to Indie-O Fest, photographic cameras will be allowed, so I think I'll take mine and snap some unflattering pictures and maybe capture some High Definition video as well. We'll see. My main focus is to record audio of Lee's and Thurston's performances, though (and enjoy the shows, of course).

"Shelley con el primero Mescal en D.F. It's on!"

Stolen from Lee's instagram:
http://instagr.am/p/JGpPwOwgEc/


I'm about to get on the bus to Mexico City...

looking forward to your reportage from tonight's show

Did I say Toni is one of the best around here? Scratch that. She's the best. Here's some of her awesome pictures from Lee's show last night in Mexico City:
http://www.tono.tv/2012/04/08/lee-ranaldo/

Just listened to my recording. It's very clear, but the volume is kind of low, so I'll amplify it and hopefully I'll be posting it later today.

Can I ask what recorder you used? I'm gonna try the app you suggested at Lee's show Tuesday night.

Sony PCM M-10. At the moment I don't have any plug-in microphones, but the internal mics of this recorder are great. I'm just too paranoid of getting distorted results and end up setting the levels a little bit too low. I remember my levels for Lee's show last night would peak at -13db and they recommend -12db. So bugged it didn't sound as best as it could from the start. The Thurston recording sounds good, though. I'll share that one first. As for the FiRe App, I think I read somewhere that it records automatically so you don't have to worry about setting your levels correctly, but the downside of it is that records only in mono, apparently. I am not very well informed because I haven't used it myself, so please take my words with a grain of salt.

I can't wait to hear this! I know what you mean about being paranoid of getting a distorted recording, I always seem to set my levels too low but it's better than having them too high!

True, although I'm now afraid to shit things up on Audacity given that I've never done anything on it before! I'm thinking about uploading it as is. Otherwise, I'll have to google to look for information on how to do it right, and that would mean it'll take me a while to share it.

I'll try to upload the Thurston recording either today or tomorrow first thing in the morning. Also, I just took a look at the pictures my brother took and they're really beautiful. I'm dying to share those, too.

12 db low is okey dokie with the M10, and actually should be your target. It gives you a lot of headroom for unexpected loud spots and it's easy to boost in post. (this is given that you are recording at 24 bit :O )

Looking forward to hearing these sets! Were they noisy at all or pretty straight up songs n' strums, like the NYC thing?

Edited to say, would be happy to post process for you HBJ, I has about almost all of April and first part of May off on vacation, damn I love my job!

My highest peak on Thurston's set was -12 db and the results are nice. I always record at 24 Bits/48 KHZ no matter what. I even purchased a memory card because I intended to record Wild Flag and Kurt Vile as well, and I did. I haven't listened to those so I don't know how they turned out, though.

No noise sets at all, I'm afraid. Both Lee and Thurston performed song-based shows to promote "Between The Times And The Tides" and "Demolished Thoughts" respectively. Both of them had some noisy passages in their sets, though. Mike, If you'd be willing to make my recording of Lee's sound better, I guess I can upload it and send you the link. I just got confused with something I read: If I amplify a recording, do I have to normalize afterwards to correct possible DC Offset (I don't even know what that is)?

dc offset is pretty much a thing of the past. amplify/normalize to peaks are pretty much the same thing, I use normalize because I can specify just where I want it to amplify to, well below clipping. amplify can easily go beyond there, at least in the programs I use (cool edit pro and soundforge)