Fleece Jazz at Kersey Mill©
Nick's Pictures and Dave's Recordings
These pages are still under development,
so bear with us, please.
For many years, now, Nick Rabett has been producing beautiful
black and white photographs of musicians who have gigged at the club.
Almost all of the photos in the brochure, and all of the popup and display
photographs are his, except for some older photographs in the stairwell.
Since August of 2005, Dave Lyons has been recording about a gig a month live at the club.
Here are some chances to see and hear the musicians.
Clip quality
The clips are mp3's, so the quality will not be at CD level. The recordings
themselves are, in fact, better than CD quality.
Some notes on recording
The club, through Dave, now has the facilities for recording gigs. They are done for archival purposes
(with the express permission of the musicians), or by request, and are not available for sale or copy.
If a band wants to request a recording, contact dave@jazzatthefleece.org.uk, and
please, a little notice and a rig spec are really appreciated.
The recordings can be done in two ways.
- A stereo pair can be used, picking up the ambient sound.
- Up to 18 tracks (10 is normal) can be recorded, and later mixed
For multi-track recording, the sound direct from the mic preamps is used, unequalised, no reverb,
providing the largest amount of information from which to mix. A typical big mix might be
- Piano - contact mics and an ambient mic
- Sax - a bug is nice, otherwise a 57B or MK012
- Trumpet - SM58 or 57B or MK012. Equalisation for mutes is done at the mix stage
- Guitar - NT5 on the guitar and another on the amp
- Bass - mic the instrument, and di from the amp.
- Drums - two overheads, a kick mic, snare and high hat
- Singer - SM58B or a Röde M3 or whatever she/he brings
- Ambient - two SM58s to pick up audience, and
- Safety - a mono channel from the live desk.
That is 17 inputs. We can cope with 18.