10 Days of 24 Hour Kirtan Recordings – Day 5
Half way through our 10 days celebrating the 24 Hour Kirtan! We’ve had a few kirtan lovers ask about the process of recording the 24 Hour Kirtan.
The recordings were made using 4 microphones. A Shure Beta 58 taped next to the main singer’s microphone. A Neumann KM183 instrument mic was positioned over the drum players. An Audio-Technica AT4033a and a Neumann TLM103 were used as ambient coverage.
These all fed into a Motu 896HD Analog/Digital Firewire converter connected to a MacBook Pro running Digital Performer 5. We recorded each microphone to a separate track at 48 KHz at 24 bits. The total size of the project came to 68 GB.
We used the MasterWorks Compressor on the vocals to bring up the voice and take down the kartals and clapping. A little EQ and reverb on the master mix and a MasterWorks Limiter to keep the drums and clapping from peaking. We had a few problems during the event which resulted in about 2 hours of lost recordings. We reverted to our Tascam DR1 flash recorder as a back up during that time. The problems came from not knowing that the recordings needed to be paused ever 3 to 4 hours. Also, Digital Performer’s timeline only works up to 12 hour long. So for those of you using DP to record, now you know.
Today’s new kirtans are from Dhira Lalita Das, Gopi Gita (Dallas), Hari Das (Dallas) and Madhava Das (Switzerland/Vrindavan India).
Listen to the entire Kirtan!
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- 01 Visvambhar Das - Hare Krishna (24741)
- 02 Jagannath Kirtan Das - Hare Krishna (7169)
- 03 Gaura Vani Das - Hare Krishna (6583)
- 04 Akincana Krishna Das - Hare Krishna (4852)
- 05 Nama Rasa Das - Hare Krishna (4254)
- 06 Keshavacarya Das - Hare Krishna (3356)
- 07 Gopal Das - Hare Krishna (3190)
- 08 Kalindi Dasi - Hare Krishna (3753)
- 09 Manu Das - Hare Krishna (2453)
- 10 Hari Kirtan Das - Hare Krishna (2763)
- 11 Uttam Bhakta Das - Hare Krishna (2834)
- 12 Gaura Dasi - Hare Krishna (2396)
- 13 Uttam Bhakta Das - Hare Krishna (2509)
- 14 Thakur Das - Hare Krishna (2069)
- 15 Rupa Das - Hare Krishna (1975)
- 16 Hari Dham Das - Hare Krishna (1808)
- 17 Krishna Balaram Das - Hare Krishna (2079)
- 18 Dhira Lalita Das - Hare Krishna (1678)
- 19 Gopi Gita Dasi - Hare Krishna (2061)
- 20 Hari Das - Hare Krishna (1685)
- 21 Madhava Das - Hare Krishna (5301)
- 22 Agnideva Das - Hare Krishna (2325)
- 23 HH Radhanath Swami - Hare Krishna (2942)
- 24 Acyuta Gopi Dasi - Hare Krishna (2992)
- 25 Ananta Govinda Das - Hare Krishna (2449)
- 26 Abhay Das - Hare Krishna (1480)
- 27 Ajamil Das - Hare Krishna (1749)
- 28 Caitanyananda Das - Hare Krishna (1527)
- 29 Gopika Dasi - Hare Krishna (1783)
- 30 Bhakta Kevin - Hare Krishna (1610)
- 31 Nitilam Dasi - Hare Krishna (1517)
- 32 Tirthapada Das - Hare Krishna (1616)
- 33 Ramananda Das - Hare Krishna (1395)
- 34 Ramdas Das - Hare Krishna (1573)
- 35 Kalindi Dasi - Hare Krishna (2055)
- 36 Ankit Das - Hare Krishna (1476)
- 37 Shobamayi Dasi - Hare Krishna (1518)
- 38 Nirantara Das - Hare Krishna (1579)
- 39 Madhava Das - Hare Krishna (3871)
- 40 Agnideva Das - Hare Krishna (2413)
- 41 Radhanath Swami - Hare Krishna (3969)
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Thanks for sharing Rupa. We’ve had our eye on the R44 for a while. It’s listed on our donations page
Gotta love Vegas! When we cut the normal recordings for here, we use Vegas. Batch render, instant normalization and ease of navigation are unparalleled.
Nice, thanks for the behind the scenes look. When I do full-kit recording, I use 2 Edirol R44 recorders with sync cable for 8 tracks of audio. I also use a Marantz PMD660 for a room/stereo mic if I need another 2 tracks (depends on how many people/instruments are micd).
I do my audio (and video) editing in Sony Vegas Pro and also use plugins to do post processing.
Hari bol!