In The Beginning

In The Beginning was the space and the space was called The Faed Gallery.

My friends Susi, Dee and I were at a concert in The gallery about 3 years ago and were all impressed with the acoustics of it. We agreed to investigate further and to this end I enlisted the help of The Geese, a local folk combo comprising Voc/Gtr, Banjo/Voc, Violin/Voc. Over a few cold nights that Autumn we tried recording in a variety of locations around the Gallery, using a simple M/S mic setup. I noticed that, due to the partial baffling of the ceiling, there was distinct graduation to the liveness of the room. Eventually this would result in the group being arranged under the highest point of the ceiling, where there was no baffling  and the bare wood of the underside of the roof was exposed.