Tribute to Dicky Betts
May 2024
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts (December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024)
American guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.
RIP. Thank you for the Music I grew up on, shaped a whole couple of generations. Your ideas live on ...
Bear Fax tribute to Dickey Betts
On recording ..
The challenges of recording a small band
Top left Arrow: Digitiized audio to phone via usb
Lower top : Digitiizer and headphone monitor
Botom right: Zoom H6 field track recorder.
Top right: Recording engineer (part time)
Bear Fax does not have a dedicated resource, neither friends nor family child labor for exploitation, so hands-free recording equipment is needed. (yes, we do have friends ..really)
A Zoom H6 field track recorder is my audio capture and storage device. Made for recording a small performance, it grabs high quality results just from the default Mike's, and takes up to 4 more.
The field Mike's (the ones that stick out on top) capture the band sound backstage, as well as audio from addition Mikes / feed to get the vocals. 6 separate tracks get written to SD card, allowing re-mix later. This my backup.
A rough mix is sent to my video recorder (cellphone) via a digitizer (Joyo Momix )/USB which provides me great quality audio to work with.
I use Microsoft ClipChamp (https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/) and start wading thru a set worth of video (7 - 8 Gig ), listening to good pieces to split off into smaller songs. Old time editing.
Next each smaller song's ClipChamp-ed again, this time tighting the starts, stops, fades and adjusting audio so it sound decent on a phone and PC with headphones. This the extent of the mastering I do currently.
After mustering up some creative writing, it's ready for publication.
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