Comments on: Pickle Patch Compilation

By: Ando

Ando — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:27:07 +0000

holy shit! I go to UCSB and I am just finding out about this.. can’t believe it.

By: Roberto Freeman

Roberto Freeman — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:01:54 +0000

i stayed over night alot of times here…

By: shane

shane — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:03:28 +0000

Awesome!

I have so many fond memories of The Pickle Patch! I can’t believe I went to waht seems like a show every week. They all blend together now.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:13:59 +0000

Matt: There's a download in the comments on this post... though I'm unsure if it's still up.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:49:12 +0000

You talk alot about Ettil Vyre. You’d be a hero if you uploaded some.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:57:43 +0000

awesome site. seriously love what you have going on.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:58:22 +0000

Yeah, I remember following up with steve about some bands that he initially had wanted to put on, but the recordings had turned out not good enough.

I went to the Sawpit show, and I thought it was fun. I hadn’t heard them before it. What I remember most distinctly is the singer wearing a fanny pack and jumping really high along with the other members when they’d bust into the fast parts.

I’ll record tonight’s sleep. I shouldn’t have said tape recorder, ’cause that’s not what it is. Digital voice recorder. It has enough memory to record an entire night. But I don’t have any snazzy algorithms on hand. I haven’t used the voice-activation feature much… so I’ll do a few nights and then see what happens. I have a feeling I don’t talk in my sleep..

By: Dan Weiss

Dan Weiss — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:35:02 +0000

The efforts on that comp were combined mostly between me and Steve, as I wasn’t at every show (for instance, I wasn’t at the Sawpit show.) We weren’t using great mics, mainly because I was constantly afraid my mics would get destroyed in the inevitable pit. But those mics still exist, amazingly enough. And I’m fairly happy with most of those recordings (although Steve will tell you we fought over a couple of the tracks, mainly due to low-quality recordings–we weren’t great EVERY night.)

I’m glad you like my blog! I actually digitally record the entire night (6-7 hours per night) and then, via an algorithm, strip out any audio that falls below a certain volume threshold. When I don’t snore much, it usually comes out to about 15-20 minutes of audio, which I then sift through for any vocalizations.

I suggest you try recording your sleep with your tape recorder! It’s tons of fun, most definitely.

-Dan

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:33:10 +0000

Yeah, you bet. And I’m sure I didn’t give you nearly enough credit. I mean, it’s very amazing that you could turn those loud sounds hitting those dangling mics into such solid recordings. And I shouldn’t say that Steve was setting it up, because I’m sure you were all over it, too (ah, it was a while ago… the details become hazy. and I was one of the mostly alone folks who could sit in a corner and observe people, so I should be remembering things better).

And oh man, your blog is really stupendous. Those recordings are brilliant.

I have a voice-activated tape recorder. I now feel compelled to set it up next to my head and see if it picks up anything at night. I don’t know if I talk in my sleep. I probably just snore. Do you do it with a voice-activated recorder?

By: Dan Weiss

Dan Weiss — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:13:25 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. Those recordings were not easy to mix.