Sunday Valley CD release party

Last night Sunday Valley had a CD release party for their new album, To The Wind and On To Heaven, at Cosmic Charley’s. It was a great show with several special guest, including Sara’s favorite local artist, Coralee of Coralee and the Townies.

I took the Canon T2i and a recently purchased Zoom H4N and did a little recording. It was my first time out with the Zoom so I was really feeling my way through recording in the field. I was able to get very close to the stage, but was unfortunately right in front of the speaker cluster. Not really an ideal setting for recording good audio. I ended up cranking the gain down to a dangerously low level, then raising the volume and normalizing it in Sound Booth. It actually turned out half way decent, I think. Especially compared to the audio the camera itself captured.

Enough jargon, here’s the videos. More to come tomorrow:

This one has some salty language at the beginning, so be warned - don’t watch it with your boss/kids/grandmother in the room.

I would have like to have gotten more in the way of complete songs, but crowd and conditions being what they were, this was the best I could do. Enjoy.