Comments on: Review: Wilco – Lyric Opera House, Baltimore

By: uwmryan

uwmryan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:44:40 +0000

I’ll echo what spatoola says – recording sounds great! Thanks so much for doing that and sharing it with everyone here!

Appreciated!

By: spatoola

spatoola — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:40:52 +0000

cbd, great recording. you did an awesome job. thanks! it approaches kicking television quality, sounds incredible.

always nice to relive wilco shows days later.

thanks again

By: cbd

cbd — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:07:52 +0000

You can download the bit torrent of my recording here:
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=521015 (flac) or the tagged mp3’s: http://www.sendspace.com/file/oxw69e

By: Between Love and Like

Between Love and Like — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:43:44 +0000

I scored front row, Nels side, which was cool for viewing but a little Nels-sound heavy….dunno if it had to do with my location or the mix though

By: Brandon Wu

Brandon Wu — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:22:45 +0000

Nice meeting you Ryan, nice review. The 10 highlights thing is a great list of memories. The show sounded fine to me, but I was hanging out on the side so didn’t have an ideal spot sound-wise anyway. Here are a few of the photos I got: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonwu/sets/72157611287537238/

By: Geetar

Geetar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:12:19 +0000

It was my first time at the Lyric, and I can’t remember my exact section. I was center balcony all the way in the back. The view was still great but as others were saying the cymbals were dead. I am a crappy guitar player in a crappy band, but my drummer friend went with me and he said the same thing. Still, we thought it was an awesome show.

By: unclemike

unclemike — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:44:37 +0000

I was in the Balcony row H, which is pretty close. The acoustics in the Lyric are phenomenal, so even the last row at the Lyric sounds good.
There were times where you would see Glenn playing, and you practically couldn’t hear anything. The cymbals came through other mikes, so you could hear them, but everything else was seriously muted, practically dead.
The opening act used their own drums. That chick’s drums sounded fine. Glenn’s set? Not at all. Trust me, it was a screw up.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:37:00 +0000

I was in Row U center orchestra and I thought the sound was good too although there was that point where the cymbal sound was gone. I thought it was a great show. Jeff seemed to be in a really good mood and so was the crowd. Does anyone know what that business about “Reid” (spelling?) was early in the set?

By: uwmryan

uwmryan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:14:04 +0000

I guess I’ll echo what Mitchell said. I was seated in the same section, a few rows back in row P and really couldn’t hear any problems with the sound. I’m not always the best in picking that out where others definitely are. Just curious where you guys with sound complaints were sitting?

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:46:57 +0000

From where I was sitting (Orchestra Row-M….pretty much all the way to the right), the sound was really great. I had no problem hearing the drums, or Nels for that matter. Wilco’s “front-of-house” engineer (Stan) had to mix from the rear of the room, under the hanging balcony. If you know anthing about mixing sound, you will know this creates some challenges. However, Stan kicked butt….as usual.