The Mars Volta - Live in San Francisco, California
December 31st, 2007 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Setlist
Notes
Lineup:
The Mars Volta
DJ Nobody
Peanut Butter Wolf
The Eternals
DJ Dennis
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Show Recording(s)
Recording Information:
Source 1
Taper: Unknown
Source: Schoeps CMC34->Aeta PSP3 (Rolloff @ 80khz)->R-09 (@24bit48khz)
Lineage: USB Card reader -> cep (fades, downsample/dither to 16bit 44.1khz, hardlimiting on balloon pops, copy/paste (see notes)) -> flac frontend (lvl8)
Location: ~30feet Left StackFLAC > WAV with xACT > Audacity to re-track > WAV > FLAC (lvl4) & 320kbps MP3 with xACT – 2020-12-27
Taper Notes:
* Balloon pops were hard limited only when they occurred during actual music. For ambience, full-on-poppage was maintaned during track 2.Recording Information:
Source 2
Taper: brian2otis
Source: Giant Squid Omni Mics > Battery box w/bass roll-off > iRiver H100 w/Rockbox installed
>Split into tracks/normalized/EQed using Cubase LE
>Exported to .wav
>Flac using FLAC FrontendFLAC > WAV with xACT > Audacity to re-track > WAV > FLAC (lvl4) & 320kbps MP3 with xACT – 2020-12-27
Taper Notes:
* First ever acoustic set
* Debut of acoustic versions of Televators, Asilos, Vermicide, Miranda.
* First live performances of Miranda, as well as the debut of Since We’ve Been Wrong.
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