What is it that you are trying to prove? That I somehow did a multitrack tape and mixed it down later and fuc$ed up the mixdown? Nothing could be further from the truth but you seem to imply that is what happen.

I am saying it was a simple stereo recording using two microphones. If there is "phasing" it was probably due to the two microphones interacting and me not following closely the rules of three. It was a live commencement concert before 3000 + people. It was a hot Memorial Day. I used what I had to work with. I set up the two mics before the commencement. I had little control over them after that.

Do you know how the concert in Sweden was recorded? Or if it was a college's commencement? You are comparing something that was probably in a concert setting to something that was recorded at a college's commencement. Not sure what your motives are...but I sense you are trying to downgrade the recording I did for some strange reason.

If you don't like my recording - my suggestion is to not listen to it.

Thomas - once again, thank you for sharing this recording. It was great to hear some live Pete! It's a fine recording, and I'm sorry you had to deal with the peanut gallery.

I wouldn't bother engaging with this individual.

I plan to be talking to the GS folks on the other side of the pond sometime over the next couple of days on another matter. I will make sure I bring up your concerns.

We shall definitely address this one way or another. Hang in there, man!

Yes, you did the best you could. The comb filtering may be out of your control. There may have been nothing you could have done to avoid it in that situation.

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!!! to all the people who posted positive comments about the recording.

It is much appreciated.

Thanks for inviting us along on that wonderful audio time travel, back to a different era, in high fidelity ! Do you have any more hidden audio gems, sitting in your tape archive awaiting re-discovery, that you might consider sharing here ?

You are welcome...

After all the nit picking and constant negative comments from a certain member of this forum probably not. If his comments were at all constructive maybe I would think differently.

Most of the people on this forum are very nice people with comments and suggestion that help me greatly but there always has to be one person who ruins it for everyone else.

Sorry!

This YT clip just appeared in my browser this morning. It's from a 2009 remaster to DVD of a 1963 Pete Seeger live concert in Melbourne, Australia. I had no idea this 105 minute concert had been recorded let alone survived. Just ordered a DVD copy, hoping the DVD doesnt have the sync issue this upload has!

https://youtu.be/aFNC1an4Dk4?si=Fboiv3GhRG_lcDUL

I have an interest in this not just as an historical record but because the first concert of overseas artists I ever saw was as a teenager in 1970 of Peter, Paul and Mary performing in our city of Perth just before they disbanded as a group. They sang and popularised Seeger songs in their set lists and on their recordings. This was part of the broader folk revival in the US and beyond in the late 50's and early 60's in which Pete Seeger was very involved. I'm not sure if Pete Seeger ever came to Perth but hope to find out.

I've also been a part time working muso in my adult life, playing mostly in folk bands. Folk music has been a big part of my life. Plus playing a lot of live amplified gigs in various venues, near and far presents you with inevitable audio issues to try and solve.

Forum members might be interested that in the YT clip some shots show the microphone setup onstage which from our discussion above may have included Pete's own mics. Note the two other mics, each attached lower down the two stands. Perhaps they were placed there by the Australian Broadcasting Commision, our Australian national broadcasters who apparently recorded this on location. ABC are similar I guess to PBS in the US. It seems that a surviving 16mm kinescope copy of the 2" videotape, plus what sounds like a magnetic recording of it, are the source elements.

Anyway very glad to have belatedly come across this 1963 Pete Seeger concert performed and recorded in my country of Australia and sharing it here.

Tim Gillett,
Perth, Western Australia

Thanks Thomas for posting! I some how missed this the first time around. It sounds damn good- and we better than I was doing in '72 with my stereo cassette deck. And one of my all time favorite performers. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Time to upgrade from that cassette deck; now Revox has made it possible for you to buy a brand new B77 Mk III for €15,995...

Man, I always lusted after a Revox B67; had no on-earth use for it, but they were so cool.

Made do with a Ferrograph Super 7 for a while. Had no real use for that one either but I could afford it.

IIRC, the two-track machines at Record Plant (NYC) were all some sort of Ampex (350-somethings). Anyone with better memory, feel free to correct me.

D.

Really cool recording. So glad it was posted. Wish I could hear it direct off of the tape!

Can’t understand the unsolicited criticisms. Not cool. Not helpful and zero value added.