Pizzarico's Live Recordings

Here are a few recordings I've made off the sound board at Pizzarico's, a local pizza shop that hosts a fun open mic night on Thursday nights. These recordings seem to be quite popular, so I've put them up here. I'd love to burn everyone that participates a CD, but that would be prohibitively expensive for me. However, I also happen to have a server full of bandwidth. So, you guys get the technological solution!

I've done my best to master this stuff well, but there are a few limitations and occasionally there will be a glitch or two. This also takes a lot of work on my part. To produce the 2.5 hours of content on July 31st, for example, it took me probably 10 or 15 hours of labour! It can be hard to find that time.

All the metadata here is gathered to the best of my ability. I try to use my little memory as well as I can, but sometimes I mess up, and there's lots I don't know. If you have any corrections for me or would just like a track removed, I can be reached at pizzaricos@benjamincook.ca. Yeah, that opens me up to a lot of spam. I hope you appreciate my sacrifice. ;_;

If you're a technical sort, you can read a bit about some of my methodologies.

Anyhow, enough essay, on to the music! All songs are listed in chronological order.

August 28, 2008

Steve	01. Weighty Ghost, 02. Closer to Fine, 03. Big Yellow Taxi, 04. Sweet Avenue
Denny	05. City of New Orleans, 06. House at Pooh Corner, 07. Instrumental, 08. Mister Tambourine Man
Chip	09. Love Train, 10. All Along the Watchtower, 11. Learn to Fly, 12. Upside Down, 13. Save A Horse
Unknown	14. Unknown, 15. Unknown, 16. Unknown, 17. Unknown
Jay	18. Still Crazy After All These Years, 19. Death Came A-Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes), 20. Bring That Thing Back Home
Group	21. Another Brick in the Wall, 22. Stormy Monday, 23. Evil Ways, 24. Hoochie Coochie Man
Matt Robinson	25. Nude, 26. Something We Did, 27. Unknown, 28. Crazy
Matt Robinson, Max, Dave R, Curtis, Jeff	29. Crazy (Outro)
Steve D	30. Universe and You, 31. Johnny Too Bad, 32. Whatever You Like, 33. Hey Ya
Emma	34. Sweet Little Duck, 35. Drink, Smoke
Alaina	36. Happy Birthday Rico
Matt Robinson	37. All the Children Know, 38. Unknown
Scott Dunbar	39. Where I Come From, 40. Unknown, 41. Ain't Mama Proud, 42. Rocking Chair, 43. Do You Think They Burned It Down, 44. The Water

Notes

There is still some noise in Denny's recordings.
Some of Scott Dunbar's tracks are slightly clipped.
As of this date, I'm using 44.1kHz recording instead of 48kHz recording to save on a computationally-expensive resampling step that could potentially introduce some distortion.

August 21, 2008

Steve	01. Madman Across the Water, 02. Reunion, 03. Volcanoes, 04. Make Like Paper, 05. Outta Hand, 06. Laid, 07. Friend of the Devil
Dave	08. After the Rain, 09. All I've Got, 10. Kansas City, 11. Knockin' on Heaven's Door, 12. Looking Out My Back Door, 13. Honky Tonk Woman, 14. Jet Air Liner, 15. Cinnamon Girl
Dave and Danielle	16. Wicked Game
Denny	17. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, 18. Knockin' on Heaven's Door, 19. Are You Happy Now
Denny and Danielle	20. Landslide
Jay	21. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven, 22. Hearts and Bones, 23. Mercedez Benz
Tandra	24. Wheels on the Bus
Dov	25. Cash Refund, 26. Believe, 27. I Hung My Head
Dov and Dave	28. Lights in the Sky
Dov	29. Because I Got High
Three Amigos	30. Black Magic Woman, 31. Something, 32. Montage
Scott	33. Burned It Down, 34. Exorcise the Demons, 35. Where I Come From, 36. Ain't Mama Proud, 37. Bicycles, 38. Why, 39. Do Right, 40. We Are The Children, 41. Frequency, 42. Rocking Chair, 43. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Scott and Danielle	44. Crazy
Steve and Danielle	45. Bobby McGee

August 14, 2008

Dave	01. She Used To Be Mine, 02. The Joker, 03. Pride and Joy, 04. Dark Eyed Cajun Woman, 05. Lodi, 06. Take It Easy, 07. Sweet Home Alabama
Denny	08. City of New Orleans, 09. Don't Think Twice, 10. Comes a Time
Theresa	11. Just Like a Tattoo, 12. With You All the Way, 13. Leave the Pieces, 15. Before He Cheats, 16. We Can Do Anything, 17. Easy Silence
Denny	18. Fishing, 19. Are You Happy Now, 20. Mr Tambourine Man, 21. Marrakesh Express
Dave	22. Unknown, 23. She Used to Be Mine, 24. Kansas City , 25. Move It On Over, 26. Sweet Home Alabama, 27. Young Blood, 28. Be My Lover, 29. Lodi, 30. Lookin' Out My Back Door, 31. Unknown, 32. Balinese
Denny	33. Desperados Waitin for a Train, 34. Train A Comin', 35. Six Days on the Road, 36. Dutchman, 37. Knockin' on Heaven's Door, 38. Early Mornin' Rain
Dave and Dov	39. Blues Jam, 40. Breakdown
Danielle, Dave, Dov	41. Strawberry Wine, 42. Bobby McGee
Dave and Dov	43. Boot Scootin' Boogie, 44. Sweet Home Alabama

July 31, 2008

Three Amigos	01. Jam 1, 02. Jam 2, 03. Jam 3
Matt Robinson	04. Unknown, 05. Something We Did, 07. Ooh La, 08. Radiohead
Dov	09. Best Friend, 10. Your God, 11. The One, 12. Nin, 13. I Kissed A Girl
Scott	14. Ain't Mama Proud, 15. Rocking Chair, 16. Exorcise the Demons, 17. Foolish, 18. The Wind, 19. The River, 20. Jeff Buckley, 21. What I Am
Steve	22. Just Like Heaven, 23. Fly Away, 24. Prince, 25. Red House Painters
Chip	26. It Ain't Easy Being Me, 27. Let's Get Drunk And Fight, 28. Knocking on Heaven's Door
Chip and Megan	29. Fishing in the Dark, 30. Closing Time
Dov	31. I Hung My Head, 32. Mad World
Steve and Danielle	33. Bobby McGee, 34. Come Away With Me

July 24, 2008

Dave	01. Kansas City, 02. Milkman, 03. Balinese
Chip	04. I Love this Bar, 05. I'm Still a Guy, 06. Be Like That, 07. Pink Jeans, 08. Another Beer in Mexico, 09. Superman, 10. PS This Is Austin
Jay	11. Hearts and Bones, 12. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven, 13. Bring That Thing Back Home
Steve and Max	14. Road to Zion, 15. What I Got, 16. The Weight, 17. She Goes Away, 18. Hey Ya, 19. Little Bones, 20. Badfish, 21. 54 46 That's My Number

See wrong or incomplete song names or performer names? Want a track taken down? Want to talk tech with me? Email me at pizzaricos@benjamincook.ca.

Technical Information

Recording

All of these recordings were taken with an Edirol UA-25. Given the peculiar sound setup at Pizzarico's, I have exactly two channels of audio data to work with, and one is the main out that goes to the speakers. The other I'm free to twiddle with. Most musicians that attend sing and play guitar. In that case, I take the microphone output as the other channel. So, at the end of it all, I get two channels of nice 44.1kHz, 24-bit audio, recorded using ASIO for nice low latency in the preview output.

Production

Then, using some mathematical magic (inter-channel mixing), I can pull out the guitar and the vocals and put one on each side of the stereo field. I fade out at the end, balance the two stereo channels, do any de-clipping necessary if I was negligent in my watchful gaze on the sensitivity knobs, and even trim out mistakes from time to time.

After the editing, I ReplayGain scan them. I use noise-shaped dither and apply the ReplayGain to the track as I drop the bit-depth down to 16-bit, proper CD audio for the archival copy. Then I encode to LAME v3.98 V2 quality MP3 from the 24-bit sources and upload!