Nova, Heather - Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC, Canada (dorrcoq)
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 17-04-2016
     
Length  : 88:48
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Treehouse 05:21
02 I Wanna Be Your Light 04:13
03 Chat 00:44
04 Girl On The Mountain 05:17
05 Chat 01:06
06 Island 05:49
07 Seaglass 04:00
08 Paper Cup 04:24
09 Chat 01:29
10 The Archaeologist 04:17
11 Chat 01:37
12 Winterblue 06:01
13 Walking Higher 03:42
14 Chat 00:55
15 Moon River Days 04:33
16 London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do) 04:08
17 Fool For You 05:15
18 Like Lovers Do 04:30
19 Truth And Bone 04:31
20 Walk This World 04:06
21 Encore Break 01:15
22 Chat 01:21
23 Until The Race Is Run 04:47
24 Sugar 05:27

Notes
Recorded at the Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Very good audience recording.


From the info file:

Heather Nova
Biltmore Cabaret
Vancouver, BC
April 17, 2016

** 16 BIT **

Source: AT943 cardioid mics (in collar) > Naiant Tinybox V1.5 pre-amp (+18 db) > Sony PCM-M10 > SanDisk Micro SDHC Memory Card @
24 bit/48 kHz
Mastering: .WAV > iZotope RX3 Advanced v3.00.695 (declick) > Sound Forge Pro 11.0 (Build 299) [Sony Wave Hammer plugin (lower crowd
screams); Copy good right track over the noisy left track and spatially enhance with Waves plugin PS22 Spread (10), L-C-R Stereo
Enhance preset; 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 5.1 (tagging)
Location: DFC, 10' from the stage
Recorded & mastered by: dorrcoq (project #609)

Setlist:
01 Treehouse >
02 I Wanna Be Your Light
03 Chat
04 Girl On The Mountain
05 Chat
06 Island
07 Seaglass
08 Paper Cup
09 Chat
10 The Archaeologist
11 Chat
12 Winter Blues (1) >
13 Walking Higher
14 Chat
15 Moon River Days
16 London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)
17 Fool For You
18 Like Lovers Do
19 Truth And Bone
20 Walk This World
21 Encore Break
- Encore -
22 Chat
23 Until The Race Is Run
24 Sugar

(1) With Klaus Bru - tenor saxophone

Heather Nova - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, ukulele, electric piano, melodion
Arnulf Lindner - backing vocals, cello, electric piano, electric guitar, bass ukulele, foot percussion

Show Notes:
- Thanks to David and Nick for convincing me to attend. When you hear words like 'This will be the show of the decade', and at a ticket price
of only $19 including fees, it was too much for me to pass up.
- The show was originally scheduled for a smaller venue, The Railway Club. However between the time tickets went on sale and the date of the
show, the owners of that club decided to close their doors. This led to Heather's people having to scramble to find a new venue. Luckily
they found a good one in The Biltmore! There was also a lot of confusion with ticketing as Brown Paper Tickets forced people to go through
PayPal for refunds, rather than issuing refunds themselves (keep that in mind next time you buy tickets through them!). People then had to
re-purchase tickets through the Biltmore's ticket agent. As a result, when David got inside when the doors opened, he was told only 65
tickets had been sold. There would have been at least a few guest listed people (Heather's cousin was there) and I expect they would have
sold some tickets at the door, but still likely not more than 100 people in attendance.
- The Biltmore usually has limited seating on the sides and by the soundboard, but because of the small crowd we were encouraged to move our
tables onto the floor in front on the stage. This made for a terrific, intimate environment. We were at the second table from the stage,
no more than 10 feet from Heather's mic.
- Arnulf's good friend, saxophonist Klaus Bru, was in Vancouver for some upcoming shows, and sat in on 'Winter Blues'. This song was without
doubt the highlight of the show.

Mastering Notes:
One downside of an intimate acoustic show is that every tiny noise is magnified in the recording. The crowd was incredibly well behaved, but
there are unavoidable sounds of people shifting around (the metal stools were VERY uncomfortable), throat clearing, tinkling glasses, etc.
There is a very low level hum from the sound system that is audible during the quiet moments between songs. Also, for some reason my left
channel had numerous very brief (most no more than 1/3 of a second) bits of noise. Fixing each spot individually by copying the good right
channel over the bad spots was an option, however I likely would have missed some noise and the resulting fixes are audibly noticeable.
Instead I chose to copy the whole right track over the left and spatially enhance the file with a Waves plugin to create a truer stereo
effect. Hopefully this won't detract from your enjoyment of this great show!

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