1981-11-03 Fagins, Manchester, England, UK/Source 1

Notes

A very good audience recording. Compared to the prior available versions of this recording, this version has better bass and treble response as well as a better known lineage. Tora! Tora! Tora! has some phasing issues which seem more pronounced compared to the prior source; the same flaw affects the vinyl bootleg copies of this recording as well, so perhaps it is an innate flaw on the master tape. Perhaps the issue is not as apparent on the prior version because the issue seems to affect only the higher frequencies, which are more lacking on that version.

This tape copy is missing Dreaming Of Me, which was included on vinyl bootlegs of this recording. darkdevoted kindly digitized his original pressing "New Mode" vinyl bootleg so that Dreaming Of Me can be patched in to this recording. Unfortunately, the bootleg audio suffers from noticeable wow & flutter (which seems to be the fault of the bootleg itself and not the equipment used to digitize it) and generally worse sound, but some equalization has been applied to make the treble less harsh and for the overall sound to better match the rest of the recording's sound characteristics. If you do not want this added track, delete it and swap in the version of Television Set from the "original TV Set" subfolder.

If anyone knows who the taper of this recording is, please let me know as I would love to preserve the master tape of this recording, particularly since it sounds so good. The bootleg vinyl artwork thanks "the Clever Man", whoever that might be...

Many thanks to subwave collection CH for acquiring this tape long ago, darkdevoted for the vinyl rip, and to Vince for his assistance with securing this tape.

Listen

You can listen to this entire recording below.

Track list

The source tape.

1. [3:09] Play Any Second Now
2. [3:28] Play Photographic
3. [3:10] Play Nodisco
4. [4:09] Play New Life
5. [3:29] Play Puppets
6. [3:53] Play Ice Machine
7. [4:10] Play Big Muff
8. [2:09] Play I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
9. [3:03] Play Tora! Tora! Tora!
10. [3:53] Play Just Can't Get Enough
11. [2:46] Play Boys Say Go!
12. [4:28] Play What's Your Name?
13. [6:16] Play Television Set
14. [3:49] Play Dreaming Of Me

• Total time: 51:52

Lineage

• Lineage (tape & rework): unknown taper and equipment -> unknown generation -> Maxell XL II-S 90 high position cassette, 1988 - 1989 stock-> Nakamichi MR-1 professional discrete head cassette deck (pitch and playback azimuth optimized) -> "Worlds Best Cables" 6-foot Mogami 2534 cables with Neutrik XLR and TRS plugs -> Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen USB audio interface -> recorded at 32-bit 88.2kHz in Audacity 3.3.2 using WASAPI input -> WAV (24/88.2) tracks -> resampled to 24/48 to facilitate merging of vinyl track -> in Audacity 3.4.0: phase adjustment, normalized to -0.1dB and any DC offset removed, track splits, merge in "Dreaming Of Me" from vinyl source -> WAV (24/48) tracks -> FLAC level 8 (16/44) using foobar2000 v2.0, FLAC 1.4.3 64-bit, and foobar2000's Resampler (RetroArch) component at "Highest" quality, dithering enabled
  • Transfer: DMLiveWiki
• Lineage (vinyl): "New Mode" original pressing vinyl bootleg -> Technics SL-1200 MK2 + Numark CS-1 stylus -> Pioneer VSX-1015 receiver -> Roland R-05 (24/48) -> 16GB SanDisk SD card -> WAV (24/48) -> in Audacity 3.4.0: phase correction, sped up 2.0%, iZotope RX 10 De-click, equalization, normalization
  • Transfer: darkdevoted
• Cassette and vinyl photos and auCDtectTaskManager log included

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