Artist: Failte featuring Scott Davidson

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Description:

My dad has a celtic band called Failte (pronounced "fal-cha"). For their 3rd CD, called "Kitchen Party "Session", they wanted to record it live, so they rented out a small theatre and put on a small show for the public. My dad asked me to record it live, so we hooked up a DAT machine to the mixing board to record it.
    The show started off great but by the fourth or fifth song I noticed that the guitar player's pickup was cutting in and out. If you listen carefully you can here it starting in "Wild Moutain Thyme". I started to panic when I realized that he had a solo piece, "Long Black Veil", coming up where he was going to sing and play the guitar. After some quick thinking I remembered that we had a condenser mic on the stage that we were using for back-up vocals and I knew that the guitar player was going to use it to sing. So I decided to turn the guitar pickup track all the way down and hope that the condenser mic would pick up both his singing and the guitar while still providing a good balance.
   Thankfully it worked out perfectly and ended up being one of the best tracks on the CD. I was quite proud of the way it turned out.