Doug Aldrich 18Oct2023 4K Still of the Night +3 @Soundcheck Live #94, Lucky Strike 90028

0:00 1 Roll On - The Dead Daisies (2022) 4:51 2 The Wanton Song - Led Zeppelin (1975) 9:08 3 Slide It In - Whitesnake (1984) 12:40 4 Still of the Night - Whitesnake (1987) 19:52 show and performer flyers 20:21 Official ’meta cinematic’ Dead Daisies video 48 sec edit - Watch full 4;03: backing audio: The Dead Daisies - Hypnotize Yourself - Radiance (2022) 1;20 sec clip Listen to full 3;52 audio Note: the original “meta cinematic’ video has Radiance as its backing audio. But the video is not synced to the audio--so the video can be used with any audio--as I did here. See Soundcheck Live!: Guitar: Doug Aldrich Keys: Steve Ferlazzo 1 Roll On - The Dead Daisies (2022) Vox Doug Aldrich Bass Dylan Wilson Drums Kyle Hughes 2 The Wanton Song - Led Zeppelin (1975) 3 Slide It In - Whitesnake (1984) 4 Still of the Night - Whitesnake (1987) Vox Chas West Bass Marty O’Brien Drums Brian Tichy Soundcheck Live #94 18Oct2023 @Lucky Strike Hollywood 90028 Welcome back all! -- first Soundcheck Live since 26Feb2020 An especially savage cover of The Wanton Song! 17:10 Inset video clip on #4 courtesy of Ann Sunde - watch her full video: I included it to partially compensate for a wayward cellphone blocking to the exact second, the most interesting and intense part of the guitar solo 18:05 I included the flowy dream sequence-y effect as filler for 26 sec of missing video, due to waiting for cool-down of the Sony RX100vii. It overheats recording 4K 30fps video after as little as 20 minutes from cold -- and unpredictably less from warm. Managing this overheating is a major distraction from getting the best angles / pans / zooms / framings. The preferred Sony FX3 records 4K 60fps video indefinitely. Alternate angle video of #4 Still of the Night, with mixer board audio: Jim’s Whingefest™: * audio is listenable, but has significant clipping distortion, especially on Still of the Night. I’m guessing ’“Louder Sounds Better“ syndrome took hold at the mixer board, for this song. Later songs from this show are mostly free of clipping: Lucky Strike Hollywood has an excellent Bose line array PA -- it sounds absolutely glorious when not overdriven. I doubt it’s caused by my microphone or levels: Shure MV88 stereo mic I used is rated at 120dB SPL, and I used the minimum 0dB gain setting. I can’t be sure whether the clipping is in the signal chain and/or the PA, or if it’s actually not clipping but exceeding 120dB SPL. Regardless, 120dB SPL is unnecessarily loud for great sounding live music, and risks hearing damage. * lighting: An immediate flashback to the most recent Soundcheck Live 3.6 years ago: unflattering lighting presets in the DJ lighting software. For example during the Still of the Night bridge, lighting continuously varies between the ideal even, bright, white or blue-white (16:20 - 16:22, 16:35 - 16:36, 16:52 - 16:56) and various unflattering, resolution-killing settings: * greenish red 5:01 - 5:10 * dim yellow-orange 6:02 - 6:08, 15:00 - 15:06 * monochrome red 16:58 - 17:16 18:23 These endless lighting variations distract from the performance, with no clear artistic or aesthetic benefit. Ideally all segments of lighting presets with dim, unflattering, resolution-killing color balances would be eliminated. And now back to our regularly scheduled positivity -- it was still a great show! SOURCE VIDEO: Sony RX100vii, 4K frame/s 95Mbit/s , 1.0“ image sensor, built-in optical zoom 24-200mm, full auto exposure, optical-only image stabilization, zone autofocus, center setting SOURCE AUDIO: Shure MV88 stereo mic, linear PCM 24bit 48kHz, MOTIV , Band preset, 3dB gain reduced to 0dB - hosted on lightweight iPod Touch 7th gen iOS 15.5 for Lightning bitstream and power; video synced to audio in post, 4-band compression applied EDIT: Final Cut Pro X - macOS 23Oct2023 Export encoding: 62Mbit/s, 8bit 4:2:0 color, AAC audio; YouTube processing reduces bitrate further to about 20Mbit/s 6:18 PM: Jim Antera Ross Ad revenue goes to the copyright claimant--typically the songwriters, performers and/or original artist. This channel is not monetized. I’m just a crazy music fan and patron of the arts! ☕ BUY ME A COFFEE: #soundchecklive #deaddaisies