"Live at Lynah" and "Voices of the Faithful"

[Sperris]

Anyone know where I can buy or obtain either of these? I'd be glad to pay for them if I could just find them.

    J.P. '96

[marty]

Last year Sue in the ticket office had the newer CD for sale!  Call her and try the Campus Store, too.

[Doug '08]

Check your PM

[Tub(a)]

[quote Doug '08]Check your PM[/quote]

Just in case you were planning on sending him MP3s or anything like that, I would strongly discourage such behavior.

Purchasing the physical CD greatly helps the Pep Band financially, so if you have a chance to do that please do.

They should be available in the campus store, and I'm sure the current Pep Band Manager (Jason Endriss '08, jre29@cornell.edu) give you more info if you'd like.

[Sperris]

I would prefer the original CDs. The campus store doesn't look like it will ship the new CD and while I would like to get the new one I (being of the class of 96) am really looking for the first one!

    Thank you for your replies!

[KenP]

which one is better?  how are they different?

[KeithK]

[quote KenP]which one is better?  how are they different?[/quote]One was recorded in 1997 and the newer one (which I don't have) several years later. So different versions of the band and crowd.  Also the newer one wouldn't have the Brown comeback tracks.

[jtwcornell91]

Voices of the Faithful (the newer one, recorded in February 2002) has Adam Wodon as the color commentator, and more, shorter radio snippets.  It also feels like it's got more of the crowd.

Really, you just should get both of them.

[Chris \'03]

The first was recorded in Nov. 1997 at the Harvard/Brown games. The second was recorded in Feb. 2002 at the Harvard/Brown games.

The old one used 2 microphones, the new one used 16, including 2 dedicated to crowd noise. As a result the sound of the band is more balanced (i.e. less brassy than the first one) and there is a better sense of crowd noise. For example, you can really hear the crowd singing along to "O Canada." Also, as JTW points out, there are more, shorter, radio clips with Grady and Adam throughout the newer one.

There are some songs that overlap the two, but there is a lot of new stuff (songs and cheers) on the '02 one.

I'm biased, but I think they are different enough that you won't be disappointed to own both.

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Chris '03]The old one used 2 microphones, the new one used 16, including 2 dedicated to crowd noise. As a result the sound of the band is more balanced (i.e. less brassy than the first one) and there is a better sense of crowd noise.[/quote]

Although I did notice an awful lot of flute/piccolo in the mix on the new one.  Maybe I'm just used to brass.