Brian’s debut as MC, music from Bob Dylan to Van Halen, acoustic and electric, strumming and picking, rhythm and lead … another fabulous show, a recording not to be missed.
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Here’s a link to the event chat: OM13 chat.txt - Google Drive
Another great show folks. Big thanks to both performers and audience for making this happened. Looking forward to a super 2023 OM season if this one is anything to go by.
What a great event, well done everyone that performed and thank you to all the audience that attended.
A couple of callouts in particular, I’m not going to do a blow-by-blow…
@brianlarsen as MC was entertaining, hilarious, chaotic, disorganised, and overall wonderful. Toby wouldn’t let you miss Jennifer & Dan 
. Loved the banter and really made it an entertaining show.
Thanks @TheMadman_tobyjenner for organising the event, and for being the muter & spotlighter extraordinaire on the night, did a pretty slick job.
And the performers that I personally really enjoyed… everyone was great but I feel like calling these ones out.
@eric.lennon Who almost didn’t make it due to tech issues and ended up doing not 1, but 2 smashing songs including a Jeff Beck tribute.
@liaty For playing Van Halen Not Talkin’ About Love (and singing it too!), one of my dreamer songs, I was grinning through your whole performance.
@Malz and Lara, the folk singing father & daughter duet that would not be out of place on a stage at a folk festival.
Thanks everyone that stepped up!
Thanks to all the performers for all the great tunes! Enjoyed and inspired by all you all! 
Thanks to all those organising and hosting!
I had to leave early, during Pink Floyd of all things (sorry Phil).
I have just watched the pre-edit, pre-release video and have to say …
What a great show.
A real community togetherness in enjoying and sharing music shone through everyone.
Missed the show last night as it was my birthday and my wife and I were out having a birthday meal.
I’m looking forward to the video release.
Many happy returns, Gordon!
Hi All,
I had a great time yesterday 
…never knew you could talk so easily Brian 
,…Toby ,it took me a while to realize that now you have to turn off the microphone with clicks in zoom and no longer with my keyboard on /off button??? 
AND WHO was standing in front of the door and keep ringing the doorbell 
,…
But …TJeemig de Peemig how good to see and hear how people get better so fast on the guitar and are confidently performing,… really cool
I was hugely impressed!!!
Greetings,Rogier
Hope you had a good one Gordon ! MHRs
Yes ! I think you discovered that at the exact moment I was about to mute you ! You muted yourself and Phil @twistor59 shunted up the Participant List and I ended up muting him instead when he was getting into full Floyd flow !!
Yes folks it was me, hands up over here. Sorry Phil 
But hey you got back on the horse and didn’t miss a beat !
Haha, yeah no problem Toby One thing I learned though - listening back to Adi’s preview link, my guitar was a bit too loud relative to the backing track - not horrendously so, but could have done with a few dB off. Strange, because in the headphones it sounded right. Something for me to keep in mind for the future.
Phil, the ‘final’ zoom sound I get is definitely not what I hear from the mixer in headphones. (Maybe different frequency response?)
Anyway, using a dB meter on laptop I try and set guitar to around -12dB and vocals peaking at around 8-6dB.
Final test is to record using ‘new meeting’ on zoom and have a listen back.
Toby @TheMadman_tobyjenner had a whole thread dedicated to this, I’ll have a wratch .
Edit:
Thanks for the tips Dave! I’ll have a look at the link you sent (yeah, I know, I should have looked before!). You certainly had the mix spot-on last night - and for that toon, it had to be! Turned out to be an awesome upper in Brian’s speedball
There is definitely strange things going with the Zoom audio, if you are comparing headphones to speakers, still not sure I know how to get the right balance. I thought Mal was a little hot compared to Lara, when I listened last night. But after a very quick whizz through to check how I did on my Spotlighting debut, I stopped on their set and it was perfectly balanced through the PC speakers. Like I say still to discover the perfect balance on recording and playback. All good fun though !
Yes, Zoom seems to be able to do some heavy audio processing - the fact that it can virtually mute an instrument but leave the voice untouched (if you don’t have the original audio thing enabled) is quite a feat. I guess it was primarily designed for the world of speech.
Well that was my first time in the audience, live, even if I missed the first few performers, something to catch up on.
Must say I was hugely impressed with the whole event, really enjoyed the performances, nice to see a range of musical tastes.
Roll on the next one.
Michael 
Watch this space, I am typing up the draft CFI at the moment.
Such a great OM! Congrats to all the performers! You’ve all raised the bar again, some incredible talent on display! 
Big shout out to the organisers as well! Not an easy feat and you bring it together so well! 
A couple of highlights for me were @liaty with some shredding Van Halen! 
@Jenndye429 (+1 of course! 
) with a stellar Joan Jett cover! 
And @jkahn with my fav Foos tune, Everlong!
All performers were absolutely outstanding, such a privilege to be in the audience. Well done everyone! 
Okay so video is out ladies and gents, however David or Richard will have to edit out the main post to put the link in there 
in the meantime I will go through commentary I missed during the show:
@brianlarsen
Great job on the MC front. Of course you would be performing the intro - brilliant 
… and loving your custom paint job.
@davidp
“Some one needs to be muted - thank you” - were you ever a school teacher David? That sent shivers down my spine.
Vocals are right on point tonight David, very nice.
Wonderful way to finish with the melody.
@jestersea
Jesse - great mentality, “I may be able to give it a go now that I’ve progressed a bit” 
Nice touch, tone and rhythm with the finger picking.
Nice dynamics with the singing too, well done Jesse.
@malz
Mal and Lara - Really sweet duet
Yeah, lovely. The slight out of sync vocals actually highlight the contrast in your voices - it really works.
Well done both of you.
@trj
Tjeerd
Great technique and tone Tjeerd. Nice laid back vocals.
Well recovered, it takes something to carry on
Fantastic debut!
Really pleased with this one. Many hours were put in.
Yeah, the zoom sound algorithm didn’t like my dives at the end, happened a couple of times during practice recording too. I’m on the Linux version so no original sound option - closest you get is echo cancellation to auto (as opposed to aggressive) and suppress background noise to low. Hey ho , it was at the end so no big deal.
@twistor59
Phil - Pink Floyd Yeah.
…anyway, wow Phil another great performance, tone sounds perfect.
And building in anticipation for the solo - lifted to another level.
Outstanding Phil.
@eric.lennon
Lovely Gibson there Eric :envy…
Eric, love the vox really easy to absorb.
Then breaks out the solo
Great muting technique there with the fretting hand.
…great tone for the Brian Adams
Nice and tidy Eric, well done.