Accept - Tampere, Finland 06.11.2012

Band: Accept
Date: 2012-11-06
Venue: Pakkahuone
City: Tampere
Country: Finland

Length: 120 minutes
Source: Audience recording, master source
Quality: A-/B+ (Grading: A = Excellent, B = Good, C = Fair, D = Poor)
Taper: j3saari
Catalog #: J3M007

Tracklisting:
01 Intro
02 Hung, drawn and quartered
03 Hellfire
04 Restless and wild
05 Losers and winners
06 Stalingrad
07 Breaker
08 Bucket full of hate
09 Monsterman
10 Shadow soldiers
11 Guitar solo Wolf Hoffmann
12 Neon nights
13 Bulletproof
14 Aiming high
15 Princess of the dawn
16 Up to the limit
17 No shelter
18 Pandemic
19 Fast as a shark
20 Metal heart
21 Teutonic terror
22 Balls to the wall

Recording equipment:
Nokia 808 PureView mobile phone w/integrated microphones --> Boldbeast Recorder app (version 3.40, basic edition) --> WAV (mono, 96kHz)

Lineage:
Master WAV --> Cubase 5 LE (resampling 96kHz -> 44.1kHz / fade in & out / EQ / output to pseudo-stereo file) --> CdWav (track splitting) --> Trader's Little Helper (encoding to FLAC (Level 5) --> MP3

Recording position:
Dead center, right in front of soundboard.

Notes about my recording equipment:
Nokia 808 PureView mobile phone has two integrated microphones that can record stereo sound up to 140-145dB without distortion. Unfortunately, the native audio recording app does only support recording to MP4, so I purchased Boldbeast Recorder app that does record to WAV (and even with 96kHz), but the downside is that it does only record in mono. However, the choice between lossy stereo capture and lossless mono capture is a no-brainer in my opinion. In case you're wondering the relatively small sizes of FLAC files, that is because the recording was indeed done in mono.

Mastering notes:
- Recording was a bit bass-heavy, so I decreased the lows a bit.
- Highs boosted a bit to add clarity.

Other comments:
With Accept you really get what you expect - excellent music played by musicians that really seem to enjoy being on stage. Is there anything else that you would wish for?
I'm still learning the recording process, and naturally my equipment also sets some limitations, but the end result is not that bad I think.
But, there is a chance that a beter sounding recording surfaces in near future, thanks to our friend Gravehill who supposedly also recorded the show :)
Unfortunately I wasn't able to record the supporting band Metsatöll.

Band:
Mark Tornillo – Vocals
Wolf Hoffmann – Guitar
Herman Frank – Guitar
Peter Baltes – Bass
Stefan Schwarzmann – Drums

Enjoy!

DL