Concert recording of the week: David Gray in Kitchener, May 25 2010
David Gray is an excellent folk-rock singer-songwriter, originally from Wales (Wikipedia page here). He is perhaps best known for his hit “Babylon” from his White Ladder album, but there are many, many excellent tunes on his other albums as well. I finally had an opportunity to try out my new H2 recording device last week when we went to the David Gray show here in Kitchener at the Centre in the Square. The concert was excellent, as were the acoustics of the venue. One untuned guitar led to a loss of “Hold On” (one of my favourite Gray acoustic tunes). The recording turned out quite well, if I do say so myself (recorded at 44.1/16bit and saved as FLAC after some equalizing and fades in Audacity). But the first few seconds of the first track are missing and I didn’t have the device pointing in the right direction until halfway through the first track. So judge the recording by tracks 2-19. It’s available through the David Gray collection on the Live Music Archive at archive.org:
