Richard Thompson
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge, MA
April 18, 2017

** 16 BIT **

Source:  CA-11 cardioids > CA Battery Box > Roland R-05 @ 24 bit/48 kHz
Mastering:  .WAV > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [Copy good right track over bad left track; WAVES C4 Multiband Parametric Processor                    (Limiter); iZotope Mastering Suite (declick); WAVES PS22 Spread Stereo plugin (Pensado Spatializer option); minor edits,                       normalize, & fades] > CDWav tracking) >  iZotope MBIT+ (dithered and downsampled to 16 bit/44.1 kHz) > Trader's Little Helper                  (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.0.18 (tagging)
Location:  House center, ten or twelve rows back, right next to the soundboard   
Recorded by:  Steven Hanna
Mastered by:  Dennis Orr

Setlist: (1:46:51)
01 Intro
02 Bathsheba Smiles
03 Walking On A Wire
04 Chat
05 Broken Doll
06 Valerie
07 Chat & Tuning
08 Beatnik Walking
09 Uninhabited Man
10 Chat & Tuning
11 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
12 Chat
13 Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
14 Trying
15 Crocodile Tears
16 I Feel So Good
17 Woods Of Darney
18 Wall Of Death
19 The Hots For The Smarts
20 Chat
21 Read About Love
22 A Love You Can't Survive
23 One Door Opens
24 Encore Break #1
- Encore #1 -
25 A Heart Needs A Home (1)
26 I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1)
27 Dimming Of The Day (1)
28 Encore Break #2
- Encore #2 -
29 Beeswing

(1) with Joan Shelley - vocals

Richard Thompson - vocals & guitar

Mastering Notes:
There was an issue, likely due to a poor connection into the recorder, which caused a lot static on the left channel.  I originally hoped to copy the right channel over the bad left one only in those noisy areas, however there were so many of them and the result left a kind of phasing issue in the repaired areas. In the end I copied the good right channel over the bad left channel, and added 30 milliseconds of delay to the start of the left side to better simulate a stereo effect.  I then applied the WAVES PS22 Spread Stereo plugin (Pensado Spatializer) to widen the stereo imaging.

There are a couple of minor spots of static in the Intro.  There is also some minor noise in a couple of quiet places which sound suspiciously like Steve or the people next to him changing positions on the creaky old wooden theatre benches!